{"id":13793,"date":"2023-12-19T09:37:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T08:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fascinatingcars.se\/?p=13793"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T12:13:37","slug":"the-story-behind-bucket-list-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fascinatingcars.com\/the-story-behind-bucket-list-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"The story behind Bucket List Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The story behind Bucket List Cars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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For much of his life, Dennis lived with his foot a bit too heavily on the gas pedal. Everything needed to be fast, and he aimed to live life to the fullest every minute, all while engaging in a groping, fumbling search for his own identity.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, he has calmed down, chooses to dig in where he stands rather than always aiming for the horizon, and sell cars, which he calls his superheroes. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the story of a person’s journey that has culminated in living with his passion.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I slowly enter through the gate of Bucket List Cars in Rimbo, just a 30 min drive outside Stockholm. Autumn is making its presence felt with yellow leaves as a backdrop and a sun that no longer shines as warmly. A thin layer of clouds hangs like a mist over the sky, creating perfect lighting over the cars parked outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bucket List Cars is the car dealership where you can find a car you didn’t think existed or something you’ve longed for your entire life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first time I met the owner, Dennis Branzell, was at a car meeting at Motikon<\/a> in Uppsala, where he was revving a 1972 Porsche 911 with a 993 body kit and a swapped-in V8 engine. Yes, you read that right – a V8. Oddly, it almost sounded like a Porsche boxer 6-cylinder through the custom-welded Feritta exhaust<\/a>. Strange, as I could clearly see the small block V8 twisting at each throttle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BMW 850 with 1000hp<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The cars in the yard don’t initially astound me – there are a few LandCruisers V8s, a P1800, and an older drifting BMW, recently acquired, with a real push that I saw on Buckets List Cars Instagram the night before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I carefully open the door to the premises and step in to find someone to talk to. Right in front of me are two cars that give me an intense jaw-dropping moment. A BMW 850 and a Chevelle Malibu – maybe not the heaviest cars in world history until I look under their hoods. In the BMW sits a prepped Chevy LC9 5.3-liter engine, churning out a total of 1000hp, and the Chevelle, built by SS Autoshop, is said to have 900 hp. Wow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machines are amazing to look at, and the numbers almost make my head hurt. Now I begin to understand the concept of Bucket Cars List. These are not just any cars – they are special and they need to be sought after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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