One of the first autox's I ever attended featured a
122 doing a 360 degree roll, back into its wheels and
continuing it's run. I was so new, I didn't know that
this wasn't a common occurrence.
I was impressed. Did you get a chance to test this
feature of your Volvo Jerry?
Years later, i.e. last year. I came across a very
nice 122 guarded by two trained monkeys in a Malaysian
jungle aboriginal village, but that's another story...
Craig
Craig
--- Jerry Mouton <jerry@moutons.org> wrote:
> Tony,
>
> Right on #1 -- mine was off-white with red interior,
> broken right side door handle!
>
> But I protest -- the 122S was a GREAT car! Superior
> to the
> 444 in every way but style, a classic in the sense
> that people
> ignore ugly old cars just the same as they ignore
> ugly new cars.
> I autocrossed mine once, at Pleasanton as I recall,
> in the '70s or '80s.
>
> Jerry
>
> Jerry Mouton mailto:jerry@moutons.org
> Laissez les bons temps
> rouler!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Tabacco" <atabacco@california.com>
> To: "Dennis Hale" <dhale_510@yahoo.com>
> Cc: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 11:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Volvo 444
>
>
> > 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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