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Watching Wheeler Dealers right now and they've restored a Volvo P1800. Honestly, I never saw nor heard of this model and it's lovely. It's basic shape is like the Studebaker Hawk. Didn't know Volvo made such a lovely car. Their styling today has gotten better but still not as beautiful as this model.
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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In the Ballard area of Seattle with the Scandinavian seafaring community tradition, still has several Volvo-only repair shops, and a few Volvo used parts stores. We see the 1960-1970s 1800s quite often there, as well as other survivor or restored classics such as the 1960 PV544.
The 4 cylinder engine block in it is just a block from a Volvo 8 cylinder truck chopped in half - that's a big part of why they run for so long. Very nice cars.
Marilyn Cole's Playmate of the Year car was a playmate pink of this model.
Remember 1972 was the oil manufactured crisis. The years before that the
prize car was a Porsche Targa.
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