The first Volvo 144 rolls off the assembly line in 1966. Photos courtesy Volvo Car Group. On August 17, 1966, Volvo gathered an estimated 400 journalists in Gothenburg, Sweden, to show off its latest...
Visiting the official Saab museum in Trollhattan, Sweden, shouldn’t be taken for granted. The museum was on the brink of shutting down for good when Saab collapsed a couple of years ago, and it would...
Photos by the author. Some of the most interesting cars that Sweden has to offer are hiding in small, rural towns, not in museums. That’s because 15-year-olds are allowed to drive virtually any type ...
After years of playing whack-a-mole with electrical gremlins in my 1971 Volvo 1800E, I decided to start from scratch with a brand-new wiring harness. However, as you can tell from the nearly two-year...
Volvo’s two-door sport wagon, the 1800ES, was the final variation of its 1800 model line. Launched in 1972 and built for just two model years, the 1800ES, designed by Jan Wilsgaard, blends the stunni...
Any car that has a reputation as a tank doesn’t exactly build that reputation by going 30-plus years without a scratch, ding, dent, or tear in the upholstery, but this 1982 Volvo 240DL for sale on He...
This week’s Sunday Cinema was fairly easy for me to pull together. First, Kurt suggested this video from the Revs Institute briefly discussing the institute’s 1969 Porsche 908 LH longtail before taki...
We’ve taken a look at the Hansen Cobra before – specifically the one that’s not in the Petersen Automotive Museum – but with the recent re-opening of the museum, Jive-Bomber at The Jalopy Journal sha...