Dennis, Dennis, Dennis. All 444s were off-white. They all came with red
interiors. And they all had a broken right door latch. Even if (it after all
being the sixties), we had by some chemically induced nocturnal
miscalculation, inadvertently driven off with Aunt Minnie's Mercury, there
would still be that split flat plate windshield between us and the night.
The sad truth is that virtually all the 444s were actually owned by people
who have come over the years to be associated with this list. Is that cool
or what? All 544s were owned by junior high school English teachers. This is
not commonly known, but it is none the less true.The 122 is noteworthy for
reasons that must be lost to non-PBS subscribers.
Tony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Hale" <dhale_510@yahoo.com>
To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: Volvo 444
> Are you guys sure you all had 444s? They were pretty
> uncommon in the USA. The first ones in were '67s, I
> don't think we got any '65 or earliers. By '69 they
> had become 544s and were fairly common. 444s had small
> round glass lens taillights, a big chrome center in
> the dashboard, and a two piece windsheild. 544s had
> oval plastic taillights, a dash without the '50
> Mercury looking chrome center, and a curved one piece
> windsheild. Some got a nice 4 speed gearbox with gears
> interchangeable with Ford Mustang V8 gearboxes, way
> strong! The old three speeds were weak. The 1600cc 3
> mainbearing engine grew to 1800cc in '61 or '62 and
> got a full 5 main bearing crank, again a big
> improvememnt. The 122 replaced the 544 in '64 I think,
> but then again they may have been sold together for a
> couple of years. There also were 445 wagons, but I do
> not recall any 545 wagons.
> Wix has just stopped supplying the air filters, I have
> been useing them on 510s.
> Before 510s and Beetles I had a 544 problem. My '59
> went almost 500,000 miles. I also had a '57, '58, and
> a 445 wagon that never actually ran but had very nice
> wooden slats and panelling inside.
> I still have a set of hubcaps hung in the garage, and
> a paper weight rear main bearing part of my broken
> crankshaft [three main 544].
> 8-)
>
> =====
> Dennis Hale
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