The story begins in 1999. My wife wanted to have a new bicycle for her upcoming birthday,
so I sneaked away early one morning to the local bicycle shop here in Mörarp, the old service station.
A couple of years earlier the selling of gasoline had stopped, instead bicycles were sold.
The service station in Mörarp "A-B Carl Westberg" was built in 1936, and once you could get your car filled up and served in the workshop.
You could also buy mopeds, motorcycles and many other things back then.
When I was 15 years old and driving my first moped I had been here many times buying gas and spare parts.
The owner of the station, Stig Stolt, tells me, as we talk, that he is thinking of retiring.
He started to work at the station when he was 14 years old, having worked for 55 years, he now wanted to sell the business.
- Sell it to me! I said, without much hesitation
- Are you serious? Stig replied
- Of course!
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We then shook hands, confirming the deal.
When I returned home I told the news to my wife, and she answered calmly:
- Good, now we have a place for our cars and stuff.
Its nice to have an understanding wife.
At the time I had a small collection of old cars.
We immediately started of by renovating the interior, cleaning and painting
and trying to restore to original appearance, finding old signs, cans, and other things.
The former owner, Stig, often came to visit, and one day he said: "- You don't have any mopeds for display, as we used to have..."
- Ok, I thought for myself, this I must arrange.
This was the start of our moped museum, and we now own more than 30 Puch mopeds.
In the summer of 2004 we finished of the last part of the renovation, exterior painting,
replacing windows and doors and having the fuel pumps in place again.
All with an intention of keeping and taking care of.
I do not sell any gas, the fuel pumps are just for display.
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