Vehicle Valhalla Sweden / Newry Man Lost

VEHICLE VALHALLA SWEDEN.
On Friday Sean Donegan Newry Man Lost photography set of on an epic adventure to find an Abandoned car grave yard in the heart of a rural Swedish forest miles from civilization. The Scrapyard was set up by 2 Swedish brothers who collected the cars left behind by US Service Men after WWII amassing over 1000 classics including Buick’s, Mustangs, Beetles, Dodge and even Morris Minors. It thrived as a business up to the 1980s due to the high price of cars in neighboring Norway before being abandoned to the elements in the 1990s. It is believed that the scrap value of the vehicles left behind is in the hundreds of thousands.
Spurred on by the fact that we would be the first Irish photographers to locate and hopefully capture this urban legend we flew in to Gardermoen airport in Norway where we hired a car and set of across country for the Norwegian Swedish border. Our base for the weekend would be a hostel in the small Swedish town of Tockfors our mission was to find a legendary abandoned car graveyard in the middle of the Swedish Forest.
With nothing but hope and local knowledge we set off early on Saturday morning driving deep in to the countryside the small winding road went on for miles and miles and we began to give up hope.
The road turned in to a gravely track and we were about to turn back when suddenly up a head we could see what looked like a dodge truck sticking it’s nose out of the forest.
We drove on another few hundred meters and more and more rusted relics of automotive history began to appear between the trees, we knew then that we were getting close. We drove another half a kilometer down the track and when we turned the next bend suddenly out of no where the Valhalla of classic decaying vehicles was right in front of our very eyes.
There was nothing else for it we jumped out of the car and grabbed our cameras and spent the next 14 hours trying to capture the magical scenes that lay in their rusting resting place.