On leisure boats of the past:
http://svtplay.se/t/136952/battokig
The average second car of many Swedes are not yet another Volvo (perhaps not even their first one is):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8nhwqfQrxQ
Virgil Exner:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Exner
Appreciation of the craftsmanship of the earlier vehicles that isn’t found often today. It is like preserving art.
What links?
There’s a great film (I think it’s Swedish) about two patients in a mental hospital who are sent out into the real world to complete their rehabilitation, with hilarious results. There’s a scene where another character gets stopped by the Swedish police while driving a vintage American car, and the scene cuts to the policeman and the driver looking under the hood and having a pleasant conversation.