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Solved - MJW #502 - Volvo PV445 Coupe by Ole Sommer 1960
« on: June 25, 2011, 02:12:32 PM »
I'm surprised this has not been posted before (hopefully not a repost).
For one point - make, model, year and who built it?
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Re: MJW #502
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2011, 04:56:42 PM »
This one has spent more time than enough in the Rookies with no response so up it goes....
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Re: MJW #502
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2011, 05:18:08 PM »
Volvo Amazon by Ole Sommer ?
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Re: MJW #502
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2011, 08:36:59 PM »
 :popcorn:
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Re: MJW #502
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2011, 01:27:34 AM »
Quote from: SACO on July 11, 2011, 05:18:08 PM
Volvo Amazon by Ole Sommer ?
It is a Volvo bodied by Ole Sommer but the model it was based on is not the Amazon.
Locked for you to provide the correct model name and a year.
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Re: MJW #502
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2011, 01:53:33 AM »
a shortened chassis from a PV445 estate car ,in 1960 ?
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Re: MJW #502
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2011, 05:21:24 AM »
Quote from: SACO on July 12, 2011, 01:53:33 AM
a shortened chassis from a PV445 estate car ,in 1960 ?
That's correct.
Yet another point for you.
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Re: Solved - MJW #502 - Volvo PV544 Coupe by Ole Sommer 1960
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2011, 05:33:46 AM »
The car survives and is displayed at Ole Sommer' automobile museum in Naerum, Denmark. The car has a name, though. Not very creative, but it is called "Volvo Special".

PS. In the headline you wrote PV544 instead of PV445. The PV544 was a unit body construction, while the PV445 had a real chassis.
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Re: Solved - MJW #502 - Volvo PV544 Coupe by Ole Sommer 1960
« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2011, 09:03:39 AM »
Quote from: Wendax on July 12, 2011, 05:33:46 AM
The car survives and is displayed at Ole Sommer' automobile museum in Naerum, Denmark. The car has a name, though. Not very creative, but it is called "Volvo Special".

PS. In the headline you wrote PV544 instead of PV445. The PV544 was a unit body construction, while the PV445 had a real chassis.
Apologies - my typo. It should of course be PV445.
Thanks for the extra view that provides a better idea of the proportions of this coupe.
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Re: Solved - MJW #502 - Volvo PV445 Coupe by Ole Sommer 1960
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2013, 07:51:55 AM »
The picture below is from a Volvo website, which states that this car was adapted by Danish Volvo dealer Sommer from a Volvo 120 (Amazon) saloon.  Looking at the front of the car that is entirely believable, but surely the museum know what it is?!:

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Re: Solved - MJW #502 - Volvo PV445 Coupe by Ole Sommer 1960
« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2013, 08:18:48 AM »
The grill is about the only part that is actually from the Amazon, besides the windscreen which is an Amazon rear window. Why should Sommer have bothered converting a four-door unit body into a two-door coupe without using hood, roof, rear wings, boot lid etc, when there was the PV 445 ladder frame easily obtainable?
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