Showing posts with label Volvo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Volvo. Show all posts

January 20, 2009

Vintage Cars: Volvo P1900


One more P1900 image at Phil Seed's Virtual Cars Museum

Have you ever heard of or seen the Volvo P1900 model? I hadn't. Well, I know practically nothing of cars so that's no surprise really. Learning that only 68 cars of that model were made (1956-1957) of course makes it even less surprising. Read more about it: "I thought it would fall apart!"

Via The Vetlanda Daily Goose

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September 24, 2008

Vintage Ads: Models Getting Dirty

Uploaded by volvoracingde

Posted to LiveJournal - Vintage Ads by shep shepherd.

"A Volvo promotional film from around 1982 featuring several 760GLE models getting dirty" (link)

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July 6, 2008

July 6, 2007

Ephemera: Volvo booklet










The other day
I found a nice vintage Volvo promotional booklet in a thrift store/nostalgia store. The booklet is from the late 50s and written in English. It definitely is promotional material targeting the American market. We follow the American couple Philip and Janis Benson on their trip to "Volvoland" - Sweden.

"They love their Volvo. Every day they get a thrill out of its wonderful driving characteristics - its roadability, convenience, comfort, pick-up, the way it "parks on a dime," and above all, the honest quality built into every inch. They often wondered, "How can a car be this good?" When Phil Benson, instructor at the University of Minnesota, received a year's fellowship from the American-Scandinavian Foundation to study theater in Sweden, he and Janis thought, "Aha! Sweden - now we can drop in and find out what's behind VOLVO QUALITY"















I have made a pdf document (58,9 Mb) out of the whole booklet. You'll find it here (MegaUpload), here (DivShare) or here (Files-Upload)
The file is in rar format and the password is: martinklasch

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February 25, 2007

Ephemera: Volvo P1800 and other cars

Maybe you don't know who The Saint was and maybe you don't know that the car he drove, when he was played by Roger Moore in the TV show (1962-69), was a super-cool white Volvo P1800 (with licence plate ST1). You might not even know that PCL LinkDump has a number of nice links for photos, ephemera and brochures of Volvo P180o and other cars from around the world. But he does!

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