19 Feb. 2007 -- Volvo Cars is back at the world’s largest show for classic cars and everything else to do with the classic-car hobby. The exhibition theme for this year’s Volvo stand is “As times goes by – 80 years with Volvo cars”.
Eight cars trace the company’s history
At this year’s show – held between March 28 and April 1 – it’s the models celebrating even birthdays that are under the spotlight. It is now 80 years since the first Volvo car left the factory in Göteborg, so the company’s first eighty years are being celebrated with the help of ÖV4 and another seven birthday celebrants, each representing a different decade.
Using these landmark models, the exhibition showcases the company’s development from start to today. The older cars may not be very well known outside Sweden. All the more reason, then, to give them their right of place in Essen.
ÖV 4
ÖV 4, 1927, side windows fitted
The open ÖV4 can be seen together with a PV52, an elegant vehicle from the 1930s, the first series of the PV444, an early Amazon, the very first version of the 145 estate car, a 240 in jubilee guise, the sporty 480 Turbo and the very latest addition to Volvo’s model range, the C30 T5. Each model represents a different decade.
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