{"id":83180,"date":"2024-11-22T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=83180"},"modified":"2024-11-19T12:54:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T17:54:16","slug":"combat-board-carrier-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/owners-clubs\/2024\/11\/combat-board-carrier-part-i.html","title":{"rendered":"Combat Board Carrier: Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I dare say that Bj\u00f6rn “Bj\u00f6rne” Carlstr\u00f6m\u2019s 1971 Dodge D100 is one of Sweden’s most detailed custom builds, in any category. You could easily dedicate an entire book to this pickup truck. To summarize this thematic artwork, which partly draws inspiration from Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s epic film Apocalypse Now<\/em>, in just a few words feels unfair. But someone has to be bold enough to try\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n

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The first time I stumbled across Carlstr\u00f6m and his pickup, complete with the world\u2019s first combat board over the roof and truck bed, was around twelve years ago. It was at the end of 2012 when I wandered into his workshop and got acquainted with this clever artist and innovator. This meeting led to several smaller reports about Carlstr\u00f6m\u2019s art and inventions created under the artist name Airballs, featured in Gasoline Magazine<\/em> during 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The reason I call Carlstr\u00f6m an artist and innovator is because the Dodge is a study in detailed neo-brutalism, not least through the use of raw concrete. Looking at and absorbing the truck is like listening to progressive heavy metal while eating pancakes with ice cream. The best of multiple worlds come together in harmony. It makes you want to create \u2014 create a lot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Many people have asked me where I get my ideas from. It\u2019s not easy to explain. They\u2019re just there, and I pick them up. Maybe it has something to do with my broad interest in a lot of things. Design, interior decorating, military history\u2026 I guess most of it comes through a slow process. Yeah, that\u2019s the right word. Some ideas just sneak up on you. I usually sketch and think for hours,” says Carlstr\u00f6m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One factor that has influenced the creation is, of course, money. In more ways than one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“If you don\u2019t care about resale value, you are immediately free to create whatever you want. If you take resale into account, you can\u2019t go all in and all out. Then it\u2019s just your kids who will suffer when they have to sell the damn thing. My relationship with money and creativity? I have no financial muscle to flex. It would certainly go faster if I could outsource some of the work. But at the same time, you\u2019d miss out on the joy of creating. The endorphin boost you get when playing air guitar late at night after you\u2019ve succeeded at something,” Carlstr\u00f6m explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He doesn\u2019t have much interest in what\u2019s trendy at the moment. Not at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cSo carbon fiber is in? Well then, my stuff will definitely be made in concrete instead. I tend to get a bit
rebellious. As for cars, it\u2019s not a lifestyle for me. It\u2019s a hobby. I don\u2019t have the clothes or the tattoos,”
Carlstr\u00f6m adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He bought the pickup in 1985, and at first, he had plans for a “sport truck”. Low and fast. Silver metallic in
three layers, some BMW color. The working name at the time was Dodge EXNATO, since the truck had previously been stationed at a U.S. Nato base in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat idea passed, luckily. I went for a Gunnebo fence instead,” Carlstr\u00f6m says and then smiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In his box of ideas, concrete, casting epoxy and reinforcing bars soon made their way in. A little barbed wire, too. All tastefully combined in a way that isn\u2019t easy to imagine when these materials and construction components are mentioned. Luckily, the photographs here can tell the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rest your eyes on all the details until part 2 of this story is out on DodgeGarage in about a month. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n\n\n

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I dare say that Bj\u00f6rn “Bj\u00f6rne” Carlstr\u00f6m\u2019s 1971 Dodge D100 is one of Sweden’s most detailed custom builds, in any category. You could easily dedicate an entire book to this pickup truck. To summarize this thematic artwork, which partly draws inspiration from Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s epic film Apocalypse Now, in just a few words feels unfair. But someone has to be bold enough to try\u2026 The first time I stumbled across Carlstr\u00f6m and his pickup, complete with the world\u2019s first combat board over the roof and truck bed, was around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":83216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2624],"tags":[2948,3012,2227],"class_list":["post-83180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-owners-clubs","tag-dodge-classics","tag-dodge-europe","tag-mods"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/CombatBoardCarrierP1_Feature.jpg","social_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/CombatBoardCarrierP1_Social.jpg","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83180"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83251,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83180\/revisions\/83251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}