![(Updated 6/29/2026. I asked Ingvar if he could shed a little light on Volvo’s PV and other aspects of Volvo history from a Swedish perspective for my PV444/544 CC. What […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Volvos-country-1950s.jpg "Volvo History: A Swedish Perspective")
![(Updated 4/27/2026. Curbside Duett shots posted at the Cohort by Robert Adair) To understand the Swedes’ love for the station-wagon, one has to go back to the war, the second […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Duett-FA2.jpg "Curbside Classic: Volvo Duett – The Most Versatile And Practical Volvo Ever")
![(first posted 5/11/2011) Necessity really is the mother of all invention. And the history of this peculiar kind of truck was born during wartime shortage. In Sweden before and […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/en-pv-epa.jpg "Regional Car Culture Explained: The History Of The Swedish A-Traktor")
![(first posted 10/5/2011) Walking past the train station the other day, I found this lovely Ford Thunderbird parked at the commuter parking lot. It immediately got my attention, because it […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Thunderbird-one.jpg "CC Outtake: The Squarebird That Flew Away")
![Design is always all about compromise. When designing cars, there are some criteria that has to be met through a cost/benefit perspective. Very few designs are really uncompromised, and those […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/RDD.jpg "Classic Automotive History: The Volvo Rear Door Dilemma")
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