New to the Gallery: Larry's British-built P1800 V8

Moderator · September 20, 2015, 03:22:12 PM

I'm very pleased to announce an all new article about <a href="http://www.britishv8.org/Other/LarryRembold.htm">Larry Rembold's Volvo P1800 with Ford 289 V8</a>.

This article features 56 photos, mostly from when Larry and I both attended the historics at Portland International Raceway back in July.

BritishV8 originally featured this car about a decade ago, with photos even older than that. Since <a href="http://www.britishv8.org/Other/DaleRembold.htm">our earlier article</a>, this P1800 has been extensively restored and improved. Also, our new article is in our popular How It Was Done format.

The earliest Volvo P1800s were built in Great Britain! Body panels were produced by Pressed Steel at Linwood (near Glasgow) in Scotland. Cars were assembled by Jensen in West Bromwich, England. Later, Volvo moved production to Sweden.

Merv · September 20, 2015, 09:32:34 PM

!!! PERFECT !!!

selash · October 18, 2015, 06:28:07 PM

Beautiful car, amazing work! Inspiring.

88v8 · October 19, 2015, 07:18:24 AM

What a clean engine bay.
Better than factory.
And a great stance.

Ivor

rficalora · October 19, 2015, 08:14:28 AM

WOW! Love it!

74ls1tr6 · October 19, 2015, 08:46:40 PM

Curtis introduced me to Larry at PIR.

What a beautiful Car Larry. In person it's better than the photo's not to say Curtis didn't do a great job!!

The narrowing of the seats was brilliant, Brenda sat in this car!

britcars · November 06, 2015, 01:49:13 PM

Excellent work on a beautiful, timeless car. Always loved the wagon version.

Preform Resources · November 07, 2015, 09:22:32 AM

I had a 62 P1800, I bought it from the original owner who bought it off the floor at the New York auto show, had a lot
of fun in that puppy !!
Dave

RMO 699F · November 14, 2015, 10:25:20 AM

I love this car! I would do something about that air cleaner though, it looks like something I would install, amateurish!

maxwedge5281 · March 04, 2017, 08:49:45 AM

while i was stationed at ft sill ok in 1967-1969 there was a similar model volvo powered by a modified 260 cubic inch ford v8. i had just installed a 289 ci ford motor in my austin healey bn6. i traded motors with the owner of the volvo because the 260 had really nice mods. the owner of the volvo was a lieutenant from california i believe and the volvo was light blue or gray in color. i wonder if there might be any connection?