Call out for Finnish oppos!

"505 - morphine not found" (morphine500) 11/26/2015 at 09:00 • Filed to: DOTS, Budapest, Volvo, 340, Volvo 340

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Any oppo people here from northern Finland? I will be going to a winter tire press event to the Kittilä area , spending the night in the Hotel Levi Panorama, and I wondered if there’s anyone i could meet... here’s a moving picture of a non-moving 340 for your trouble.

There’s more, continuing my DOTS project:

Cé hé sin > 505 - morphine not found 11/26/2015 at 09:04

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Oooh, a 340! I haven’t seen one, moving or otherwise, in a very long time.

KnowsAboutCars > 505 - morphine not found 11/26/2015 at 09:18

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I’m from Finland, although not from north. I may be wrong but I don’t think we have anyone from Lapland on Oppo.

505 - morphine not found > Cé hé sin 11/26/2015 at 09:21

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This one is near the school my kids go to. My oldest is in 4th grade, and I’ve never seen this car move an inch in all these years......

505 - morphine not found > KnowsAboutCars 11/26/2015 at 09:22

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Shame. Thanks for the heads-up though!

Where are you, in Finland?

KnowsAboutCars > 505 - morphine not found 11/26/2015 at 09:29

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I’m in Helsinki, so pretty much the opposite end of the country.

Zyrtec just kicked in, yo > 505 - morphine not found 11/26/2015 at 09:41

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Well, I’m half-finnish, spoke it as my first language, am still fluent, and have a Finnish name... but I live in Massachusetts.

I’m mad jealous if that counts.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > 505 - morphine not found 11/26/2015 at 12:10

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I really wish the 340 had been sold here in the US. I’d rock one.

kanadanmajava1 > 505 - morphine not found 11/26/2015 at 18:03

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I’m Finnish too but I live in Espoo (in southern coast). I did work as a winter tire test engineer years ago and spent my one winter in Ivalo. I never made it to Kittilä but I know how to get there. Most of the automotive winter testing in Finland is done in Kittilä and Ivalo.

Levi is one of the largest downhill skiing resorts in Finland. I hope you haven’t visited the Alps (or some other real mountains) as otherwise the place might seem a rather small.

505 - morphine not found > kanadanmajava1 11/27/2015 at 02:58

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Thanks for the heads up - luckily for all involved I’m not interested in skiing at all, so your beautiful country doesn’t need to race the Alps for me.

However, how did you become a tire test engineer? What where the necessary skills for that? I’m very curious about this...

kanadanmajava1 > 505 - morphine not found 11/28/2015 at 13:44

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I was looking for a job but I didn’t find it but the job found me. I had just graduated from a local technical university. The testing company had asked from the university if they knew any freshly graduated people. So they suggested to contact me.

The work itself was quite fun but the problem with that kind of work was the thing that they didn’t have any work for the summer time. They have now built some indoor test facilities so you could test winter tires also during summer.