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Winding Road (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Irv Gordon claims a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most miles ever recorded on a single-owner, non-commercial vehicle. He’s racked up 2.7 million miles (and quickly counting) on his 1966 Volvo P1800 and has made quite a study of the American countryside in the process. Drawing on his vast firsthand knowledge and a desire to see people out and enjoying summer vacations on the country’s...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Tireless Road Warrior Uncovers Gems of History and Cuisine in Places Such
as 'Little Sweden' in Kansas to a Proclaimed Ghost Town in Texas
IRVINE, Calif., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Irv Gordon -- who was the first
person to drive two million miles in the same car and has taken more road
trips than anybody -- has some advice for families preparing a summer
vacation on the road: ditch the fancy resorts...
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Auto Spectator (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
May 15, 2008 -- 47 Volvo P1800 cars from German and Swiss Volvo Owner clubs visit Sweden and Volvo Car Corporation in connection with the clubs' 30 year anniversary. An impressive sight.
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Classic cars, rallies and races (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Click on the picture to enlarge 47 Volvo P1800 cars from German and Swiss Volvo Owner clubs visit Sweden and Volvo Car Corporation in connection with the clubs' 30 year anniversary. An impressive sight. The German Volvo P1800 IG and the Swiss Volvo-Sport Club P1800 are both celebrating their anniversary with a week's visit to Sweden. The group consists of 38 cars from Germany and 9 from Switzerland....
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Progressive Information (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The very first sports car that Volvo had produced was the Volvo P1900. It was considered to be an automobile tragedy for it did not do well. In fact, it was only able to sell a skimpy sixty eight units. Despite the downfall of Volvo’s first attempt at producing and manufacturing a sports car, the company still has taken a [...]
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GadgetManiac (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
Some rag called the Daily Telegraph asked their readers to nominate the best-looking cars of all time, and this is what they came up with… 1 - Jaguar E-type 2 - Citroën DS 3 - Jaguar XK120/140/150 4 - Ferrari Dino 206/246 GT 5 - Lamborghini Miura : 100 - Volvo P1800 …not a bad compilation, but once or twice one has [...]
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Autoblog (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008
Filed under: Trucks/Pickups , Etc. , Ford It's been a good run for million-plus-mile vehicles recently. In September, it was the gent with a million-mile 1989 Saab SPG , then in October it was another gent with a Volvo P1800 cruising past 2.6 million miles . The domestics opened up the 2008 race to a million three days ago with a Wisconsin man 1,200 miles away from the 6-zero mark in his 1991 Chevy...
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Autoblog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2007
Filed under: Maintenance , Etc. , Hatchbacks , Volvo click above image for more pics of the 2.6 million-mile Volvo P1800 We've reported on high-mileage cars here before. There was the Jetta diesel that Volkswagen found in Ohio with 562,000 miles on its odometer. Then there was the Saab 900 that had traveled 1,001,385 miles in its lifetime. Finally, there was also a 1995 Dodge Ram that passed the million-mile...
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Kiko's House (Free subscription) | 10/22/2007
1973 Volvo P1800ES (top) and 2008 Volvo C30 In the never ending battle between form and function, automobile designers too often create three-quarters of a beautiful car but blow it in the end. Literally. That is why my esthetic eye has always appeciated station wagon and hatchback treatments of sedans and coupes. To that eye, there have been few more beautiful treatments of car rear ends than the...
