Raggare: Sweden’s Redneck Greaser Subculture

This weekend, the world’s largest classic car show takes place in the Västerås, Sweden, and classic car collectors flock from around the world. For the weekend, the small city of Västerås gets overrun with drunken packs of a very specific Swedish subculture called raggares, riding through the streets in a parade ’57 Chevys and Ford Mustangs.

“Raggare” is a delightful mix of the style of a’50s greaser, the corpulence and bad hygiene of a biker, the love of the Confederate flag of a southern redneck, and the enthusiasm for drinking of a British soccer hooligan. Basically, every stereotype about poor white trash spanning both time and globe, rolled into one.

Photos of Swedish raggares in action and/or passed out drunk below. Remember: these photos are all in Sweden – you know, where your Billy bookshelf is from.

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