It was such a failure that just 67 units were sold. From 1955 to 1957, the automaker marketed the Volvo Sport, a plastic-bodied sports car. Volvo notes that this wasn’t its first time trying out the sports car concept. Few, if any, subsequent models have matched it image-wise. From a sales perspective, the P1800 played a modest role for the company, but from an image viewpoint, it played a far bigger role than any previous Volvo model. It was in 1961 the P1800 entered production and it reached showrooms after four years of careful planning and development remained in production until 1973. In 2011, this remarkable people’s favorite turned 50. Planned in Sweden, designed in Italy, unveiled at the car show in Brussels, built in Britain and a huge success in the United States, the Volvo P1800 is Volvo’s most internationally renowned model. Volvo says this car was important to its history: This is a variant on that car, but with shooting brake style. Irv Gordon famously drove a Volvo P1800 over 3.2 million miles. Here’s a car not just famous for its looks, but for its ability to go the distance. Today? The seller in Minneapolis, Minnesota is looking for offers. This was about $2,088, or about $25,000 when new. Power comes from a 226.2 cubic inch straight-six making 115 HP. The seller says that this 1952 Traveler is in good condition and it’s clean after a restoration from some point in its life. And, unlike a lot of modern SUVs with hatches and folding seats, the Vagabond/Traveler wasn’t just playing around about this truck business, they meant it, with load space comparable to a pickup and access nearly as good. The Frazer Vagabond/Kaiser Traveler were built from 1949 to 1951 and were designed to be comfortable six-passenger sedans that could convert into what is essentially a pickup truck. I highly recommend that you read that post, because it covers everything that you need to know about this car. It’s a vehicle that I didn’t know about until that article, and amusingly, even the seller of this one says that people don’t know what it is. Late last month, our Jason wrote about the Frazer Vagabond/Kaiser Traveler, a car that turns into a truck. It’s $18,000 on Facebook Marketplace in Maple Park, Illinois with 90,000 miles. Shifting is done through a three on the tree. From the factory, this engine made 177 net HP and 283 lb-ft net torque. New parts include a thermostat, starter, spin-on oil filter adapter, belts, and hoses. This lovely C10 is described as being in dependable driver condition and it was given an amateur restoration in the 1990s. Chevrolet mentions some fun facts from when this line was introduced, like the fact that a gallon of gas was $0.33 ($3.18 today) or that a whole house was $24,600 ($237,252 today). Second-generation trucks were launched in 1967 and Chevrolet says that “Action Line” trucks added comfort and convenience features to make the C/K line to better fit the types of customers that were buying them. In Chevrolet’s naming scheme, “C” denotes rear-wheel-drive while “K” means four-wheel-drive. The first generation of General Motors’ C/K line of trucks launched in 1960, replacing the Task Force series trucks. Here’s what I’m looking at this week! 1967 Chevrolet C10 – $18,000 Facebook Seller This week, I’ve decided to look for some vehicles that I perhaps normally wouldn’t. I missed a week thanks to the Chicago Auto Show, but now I’m back on track. Since I’m shopping all of the time, I always have an evolving list of vehicles for sale. Welcome back to Mercedes’ Marketplace Madness! As you know, I love picking up dirt-cheap cars and motorcycles and then telling you lovely readers about the dumb things that I do with them.
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