Note sure how far to take this, but Forbes opined about Volvo P1800s in their December 2014 issue: […]
Jay Leno discusses and drives ST1
A nice video from the Jay Leno’s Garage YouTube series shows off the fully restored ST1 Volvo 1800S from the TV series of The Saint with Roger Moore. All I can say is, what a wonderful restoration. Beautiful. […]
Back from winter storage
Over the winter (November to March, inclusive) I put 64SAINT away in winter storage at Concours Cars. Although I’d not done this before, the reason for putting it away this past winter was pretty mundane: we only have a two car garage for three cars and I was getting tired of cleaning the snow and ice off my Audi (that’s the car that’s left outside when the Volvo is parked in the garage). […]
Minichamps red 1969 Volvo P1800
Earlier on this year, after at least a good three years of looking, I finally managed to score a red Minichamps Volvo P1800 1:43 model. It depicts a 1969 version with the straight front bumpers and so on. I’ve been meaning to take a picture of it on 64SAINT, but for some reason didn’t get round to it until today. […]
3 million reasons to believe
Lest this blog become a blog about Irv Gordon, I must nevertheless post a link to this wonderful ad for Volvo. It features Gordon’s 1800S as it approaches its 3 million mile mark. Well, OK, Gordon was there all along too, so it’s his 3 million mile mark as well. […]
Volvo blog post on Irv Gordon
From the official Volvo US blog: a good post about Irv Gordon as he approaches the 3 million mile mark in his 1966 Volvo 1800S. Since the odometer only has 5 digits, he’s cycled through it 30 times… […]
Motor Trend article comparing the Volvo 1800E, AMC AMX, and Datsun 240Z
Back in the fall of 2012, Motor Trend published an article looking at the differences between the European, American, and Japanese ideas of what a sports car should be at the beginning of the 70s. They selected a 1971 Volvo 1800E (the last variant and the last year of the successful P1800 series coupe, the 1800ES was to continue another year), a 1969 AMC AMX, and the outstandingly successful Datsun 240Z. tl;dr: the Datsun nailed what it meant to be a sports car in the new era. […]
Concours Cars newsletter July 2012
Concours Cars (where I get my Volvo 1800S serviced, if you haven’t worked it out by now) send out a monthly newsletter email to their customers. Each edition is about a car, concentrates on a particular model, has a picture of an example owned by a customer of theirs, and gives a little bit of history about the model. […]