Showing posts with label Volvo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Volvo. Show all posts
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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Ephemera: Volvo P1800 - Miss March
Publication: Canada Track & Traffic; Date: March 1963
Vintage Volvo
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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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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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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!
- In this episode trailer you'll briefly see the P1800 in action.
- Opening and closing title sequences for three different seasons of The Saint.
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