RE: [T3] French names Type 3

[Stieg Hedlund <SHedlund@blizzard.com>]

Yeah, Volvos are cool. Especially the P1800's: those are sweet.

I was recently having a bit of a crisis of faith when one of these cars was
offered for sale. It was $5000 that I just didn't have, but I had to look.
On my way over to the seller's house, I saw a white P1800 like the one for
sale up ahead of me. I stepped on it to see if it was the car in question.
Catching up, I could see it was a later model car, but I still overtook it
slowly, admiring its lines. When I had pulled even with it, I saw that the
driver was a really cute gal, who was looking back at me and saying
something very enthusiastic about my car ('63 sunroof Notch). There was a
lot of glass and wind between us, but I think she said, "Your car ROCKS!!"
Man was she cute.

I took it as something of a sign. Girl with the car I was coveting, covets
my car (and I like to think maybe even... me?). It made me remember: Oh,
yeah, my car does rock, what was I thinking? I still went to see the other
car, and looked at it with great appreciation of it's specialness, but no
sale, I'll keep mine.

Interesting history of these cars, though, which is intertwined with that of
VW: "P" in P1800 stands for Personvagen, similar to Volkswagen, no? Volvo
went to Ghia to design it, VW said, "Uh, no, I don't think so they're under
exclusive contract to us and can't work for you. "So Volvo went to Ghia's
sister company (really the same company) Frua for the design work. Then they
needed a coachbuilder, so they approached Karmann. Same deal: VW nixes this
idea. The coachwork has to be done by Jensen in the UK. So the P1800 was
almost the Volvo Karmann-Ghia.

Keeping the Faith,

Stieg Hedlund


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	HenryVW [SMTP:henryvw@ij.net]
> Sent:	Friday, March 10, 2000 6:31 PM
> To:	Per Lindgren; type3 list
> Subject:	Re: [T3] French names Type 3
> 
> Ok now lets  not start bashing Volvos....... They arnt as cool as vws but
> they are still real cool.   Folks always ask me if my cars a volvo too.
> ----------bryan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Per Lindgren" <lindgre@online.no>
> To: "VW Type 3 Mailing List" <type3@vwtype3.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 12:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [T3] French names Type 3
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > Henrik Larsson wrote:
> >
> > > When I try to describe my 1964 Notch to people who don't know anything
> about
> > > VW, I always say that the car looks like a small Volvo Amazon. BTW, I
> think
> > > Volvo Amazon was called Volvo 121, 122 or 123 in the export markets.
> >
> > Yeah, some stupid girl asked me if my old car was a Volvo Amazon. I felt
> really
> > insulted.
> >
> > PerL
> > 73 Variant L
> >
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