Here you will get restoration articles that can be of specific benefit, but may
not always match our other categories. They may span anywhere from the way
to organize your garage suitably for the auto restoration hobby, to information
about the Volvo 120-122 (Amazon).

Pretty much all targeted towards classic auto restoration.

First a Volvo history lesson.

1927 ÖV4 "Jakob"(4-cylinder open carriage.PV4, 4-cylinder passenger car)

The Volvo 120-122 (Amazon in Scandinavia) was not the first Volvo produced,of course!Volvo was founded in 1926 as a wholly owned subsidiary of SKF with Assar Gabrielsson as managing director and Gustav Larson as vice president and chief technical officer. They had since October 1924 worked together with the planning and construction of the first Volvo car, and December 16, 1925 Gabrielsson and Larson agreed in Stockholm.

The factory was set up in Gothenburg and the first production car was seen at around 10 am on April 14 1927.

PV444
Volvo Amazon was not the second model either!
1944 the Volvo PV 444 was presented. PV 444

It became a blockbuster.
Durable and inexpensive.
It had the same price as the
first car seventeen years earlier

PV 544

The modified version PV 544 was produced until1965.

Next in line would be the Volvo Amazon(120)

Volvo Duett

Another success was the
Volvo Amazon121-122(1956-1970)

1961 the maybe most saught after Volvo,beside the Volvo 120-122 Amazon, was launched.
The Volvo P 1800.

This Italien (Frua) designed car was not so long ago officially revealed to actually have been designed by the Gothenburg designer and sailor Pelle Petterson.Most "car" people in Sweden allready knew this,but Pelle was not allowed to officially say so.
The first cars were made in GB (Jensen factory) with limited production quality.1963 Volvo moved the production to Gothenburg.After that the cars were called 1800S (Sweden)


This is actually my car (ET Carlin) -65 model, as it looked after purchase.(I drove it home).This is my fifth Volvo.I've had one 444,one 544 and two Volvo Amazon 122s.This one is now in molecules but I'm slowly getting all parts restored and put toghether again.