Craig,
Sure! Everybody knows that "Volvo"
is Latin for "I roll" ; -)
Jerry
Jerry Mouton mailto:jerry@moutons.org Laissez les bons temps
rouler!
----- Original Message -----
From: "craig boyle" <craig_autox@yahoo.com>
To: "Jerry Mouton" <jerry@moutons.org>; "Anthony Tabacco"
<atabacco@california.com>; "Dennis Hale" <dhale_510@yahoo.com>
Cc: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: Volvo 444
> 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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