I’m on my way home from a business trip to Sweden and thought I’d share a pair of CCs I spotted in Gothenburg. Feel free to ID these in the comments – I’m pretty sure the Ford is a late ’60s Torino, but have no idea on the Volvo.
One more shot of the Volvo. Unfortunately my schedule did not permit a trip to Volvo itself…
Made lots of business trips to Goteborg, even visited the fine Volvo Museum, but I can’t tell you the model of the red iron roller.
I can tell you the white fastback appears to be a 1968 (based on the rear side-marker light) Torino.
Both are rare here but the Volvo is the pick of the two, Saw lots of Euro cars today a trip to the wreckers for my beast proved very interesting just to discover how the PSA parts bin works and the very clever rear axle for my car went back into production 5 years after my car was made so I now have a 2002 replacement rear steering system hub to hub ready to install, I’ll shoot it and explain why you cannot catch my car on corners in BMWs and the like.
Coincidentally, I was also recently in Gothenburg during the past weekend, and I just submitted an initial CC while continuing to amass photos in Stockholm.
The CC Effect usually applies to mass spottings of seldom seen car models, but in this instance it also has resulted in multiple people traveling to the same mid-sized, hardly famous city in Sweden.
Not famous? It’s the home of Volvo. VOLVO, I say!
Spoken as a true, incurable Volvo fan 🙂
I stand corrected!
I intend to check out the Volvo Museum in Goteborg and the SAAB Museum in Trollhattan, and can submit some photos of those if there is interest.
I love the fastback Torinos and their Mercury relatives.I see tons of the Mopar and GM equivalents at shows and in magazines but hardly any Fords or Mercuries.The late 60s models were just right looks wise,I was never a fan of the beaked models of the early 70s.
Keep an eye out on this site next Tuesday, I’m just sayin’.
Thanks will be there
I’d say it’s a Volvo PV544.
+1
Yep, a 544. They made these through ’65. The Duett wagon lasted a bit longer, to ’69.
Here’s a ’64, courtesy of lov2xlr8.no:
We call this Volvo model “de katterug”.
Translated you get “the back of a cat”.
Volvo PV544 doesn’t ring a bell, but everebody here remembers
de katterug.
If it’s got a two-piece windshield it’s a 444
So Ed, were you riding in an S80? That dash looks somewhat familiar.
I disagree with Robert Walter and am fairly certain the Torino is a 1969 model. Reading the Wiki reference article on the Torino seems to confirm that. If they are right, they say if it has the aluminum strip running between the center of both taillights, it is the 1969 model. They also mention that the taillights are more square shaped on the 1969 than the 1968, which I seem to recall as a minor difference.
Within the past month, saw a light metallic green 1968 Torino GT notchback with a vinyl roof in very good shape in Columbus. While nice, it didn’t appear as racy sleek as the fastback Torino, which Ford called the SportsRoof.