So, the Big Three are looking for a bailout...
No that's not a picture of me below, but the guy in the picture is standing beside a P1800 very similiar to ours. This is the famous (in Volvo circles) Irv Gordon who owns the same make and year of Volvo Gwen and I have - a 1966 Volvo P1800.To make a long story short, I have no decent pics of ours and at the moment its not here to take a picture of it - the car is at another place having its engine and transmission installed.
But when I used to drive it a few years ago (house construction took over from this other long term car restoration project) I remember being constantly amazed at the fuel mileage the Volvo offered given its age, and forty or so year-old technology!
The last forty years has seen a large advancement in computer technology, etc; so what happened to cars and there engines!!!???
What happened to the technology GM and Saturn developed when they first released the EV-1 to the public 10 or so years ago? Of course, this is a rhetorical question. Most of us all know exactly what happened. There's no political willpower to change the path of greed our system fosters...
2.48 Million Miles On A Volvo
Record-Breaking Volvo Driver Irv Gordon Clocks Four Million Kilometers in His Trusty P1800.Some stats:Irv Gordon, Volvo's "Two-and-a-half Million Mile Man," just became the "Four Million Kilometer Man," breaking records in the same shiny red 1966 Volvo P1800 he has been driving for more than 40 years.
- 710 oil changes. Irv recommends changing your oil every 3,500 miles (5,632 km).
- 100,000 plus miles (160,934 km) per year since retiring in 1996.
- 0 false starts. Zero. Zip. Not even on the coldest of mornings.
- 0 replaced engines. The Volvo P1800 still has its original engine, though it was rebuilt at around 675,000 miles (1,086,307 km).
- One new starter.
- $4,150. The cost of Irv's Volvo P1800 back in 1966. "The best $4,150 I've ever spent."
- 99 tune-ups (every 25,000 miles, or 40,233 km).
- 8,285 tanks of gas (The Volvo gets 25 miles, or 40.23 km, per gallon
2 comments:
2 1/2 million miles - that's nuts!
I loved my Volvo, but I didn't keep it more than 5 years. It kept me safe when I hit 2 deer (moose mobile).
Yours and Irv's is a cool model. Mine was a wagon, '98 I think it was.
We've got a friend who's had a few Volvo wagons. What interior space!
Never hit a deer or a moose myself, and I hope I never do, although I have come close. Very glad you didn't get hurt Ruth!
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