On the apparently endless The O'Briens booktour, I spotted this Volvo P1800 for sale at a small garage near Bridgton, Maine. Doubt if it is still there. And I don't know if it was listed anywhere on the web. It seemed a very clean survivor. There was one patch of rust on a fender
but otherwise everything seemed solid. And amazingly, original. Especially the interior. Dusty, but all there.
The p1800 looks like it has spent a lot of time hiding in a barn and it certainly doesn't seem to have encountered many Maine winters. Asking was $3K. The seller seems to think it a 1969 but I would say 1967; not that I'm an expert on these sweet little Swedish machines, but it has no side marker lights and I think these were mandatory starting 1968. How trainspotterish of me to know that.
Love these as well as the P1800ES wagons .
ReplyDeleteActually, it is a '65 model, chassis numbers 12500-16499.
ReplyDeleteAfter '66 they got rid of the swooping door trim.