Finnish P1800 Passion & Suomen Volvo 1800 Kerho ry

When it comes to P1800 Passion, we are speaking about how much someone can be dedicated, no question this includes the long time runners and members of P1800 clubs worldwide.
I had the unique chance to travel recently in Finland for business, during the coldest day of the year in early January. While not being able to catch any 1800 on the streets of Helsinki at night I was able to find a daily runner amazon and shared with local clubs if it would be possible to find any 1800 around. Obviously the low temperature -19°C ( -2°F) is not encouraging anyone to put a precious classic much in the street during winter.
Back in April with sunny warm weather and no snow on the road I was happy to discover that local drivers are not driving like lunatics here in France! this applying also during sunny warm weather and no snow on the road! The scenery of countryside is wonderful whatever the season, and most important the people are wonderful, I had the unique chance to engage with local 1800 club  "Suomen Volvo 1800 -kerho ry"
I'd like to pay tribute to the club and especially to Jaakko Saransalmi owner of a beautiful P1800S, for keeping the P1800 passion, sharing about the 1800 and dedicating an entire article about your humble servitor P1800 passion. I received also, with the greatest interest, info and pictures about the unique 1800 police car part of Helsinki Police forces in 1967 now restored by a club member, see more pics here

The very unique 1800S police car assigned to Helsinki police in 1967 (c) Suomen Volvo 1800 -kerho ry

the very same car now fully restored by Finnish club member

I can testify having seen during a classic passion span of more than 30 years that the club's magazine "Pyhimys"  (aka The Saint) is done in a upper quality professional way, surpassing in quality and content all the one I have seen.


Do not miss the club website : http://www.pyhimyskerho.com
( English automated translation here)
And if you have the opportunity, join, meet, engage with the club!

Thank you Jaakko and club members for your P1800 Passion and keeping the flame of the 1800 high!

Pyhimys 1/2014 (c) Suomen Volvo 1800 -kerho ry

Jaakko's beautiful P1800S (c) J Saransalmi

The P1800 ballad of Irv Gordon

Not to be missed, production and interpretation by the fellow Volvo enthusiast Tom Demarest, the Ballad of Irv Gordon and his P1800 has just been made available for all of us.

Have a look at Tom's website  http://www.oregrownmusic.com/anoldvolvo.htm , "my Old Volvo page" where there is a link to The Ballad of Irv Gordon, get it now.

It may very surely be another pick for CarTalk this summer, as they did in the past for other Tom's hits!

Enjoy Tom's ballad that captures what we all are thanking Irv for : the purpose and underlying story of driving a classic Volvo P1800 !

Congratulations Tom to have so well captured Irv's P1800 passion.

The Ballard of Irv Gordon is copyright (c) Tom Demarest

http://www.oregrownmusic.com/index.html

http://www.google.com/#q=official+volvo+song

(c) Tom Demarest

(c) Tom Demarest

 

The passion for P1800 rewarded

Our fellow VIP renown enthusiast and multi-hat P1800 ambassador Kevin Price who just accomplished the magic of bringing back to road the iconic 1800 (71DXC) featured in the first Saint TV series got a (more than) well deserved price,
thanks to his accomplishment more than this price he receives also the recognition of the worldwide P1800 passionate community. Thank you Kevin.
Looking forward to meet you soon, and have a tour in your Saintly Car! this surely would be the second most interesting drive of my life after the time Irv drove my car on my favorite roads!

http://www.kidderminstershuttle.co.uk/news/11152488.Bewdley_engineer_wins_Restorer_of_the_Year_title/?ref=var_0

http://www.performance-car-guide.co.uk/roger-moores-the-saint-volvo-revived-restored-and-coming-to-manchester.html

http://classiccarmag.net/roger-moores-original-saint-car-lives-to-see-another-day/

http://www.thesaintvolvo.co.uk/gal.asp?gID=34

read also the history of the rebuild
http://www.thesaintvolvo.co.uk/history.asp

and do not forget to check at 8:45 of the Talented Husband episode of the Saint (c)ITC


Congratulations and Thank you again Kevin!

How Jerry Seinfeld chose a 1967 Volvo 1800S for “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee”

Readers of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car are familiar with John Holtzapple, president of the Volvo Club of America and the longtime caretaker of a beautiful 1967 1800S. John had let slip, last fall, that something special was happening with his car, but it wasn’t until last week that we saw it for ourselves: It was the ride of Jerry Seinfeld and Tina Fey in the weekly web series, Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee.

We asked Lancaster, Pennsylvania, resident John to tell us how this came to be, and he kindly shared the story:

Jerry’s production company in New York wrote an email to the Volvo clubs asking if an owner of a 1967 1800 would be interested in making their car available for a video cast. I responded for VCOA, asking which color and features and what dates it would be needed, saying that we had many members who might consider offering theirs. I mentioned Irv’s car, and that I had a red ’67.
They wrote back asking for photos of mine, then wrote again a day later saying that Jerry wanted to see more photos of the interior. After that, they said he was interested in my car, and asked if it would be available ‘so and so’ days for filming. After some back ‘n forth emails and phone calls, we worked out a ‘rental’ agreement and finalized the transportation, by them, for the car to – and back – from New York City. They took it on a Sunday afternoon, for filming on Monday and Tuesday, with overnight storage at the Classic Car Club of Manhattan facility. Filming went great on Monday, but Tina became unavailable to finish the shoot on Tuesday. They returned the car on Tuesday night as promised, and picked it back up again the next week for one more day of filming. Everything went off without a hitch, it was returned no worse for wear.

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Beautiful P1800 designs evoke strong emotions in men, study finds

A new study suggests that men experience more emotion when looking at images of car design than they do when looking at images of children.
The research monitored the brainwave activity of men and women when shown a series of images chosen to elicit an emotional response. The results showed that, for men at least, car design is capable of evoking feelings on a par with the most basic of human emotions.

The experiment, conducted by Volvo and EEG specialists Myndplay, was followed up by a survey asking participants their thoughts and feelings in relation to car design.

Read more:http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/health-headlines/beautiful-car-designs-evoke-strong-emotions-in-men-study-finds-1.1566291

The emotion of car design : P1800 concept coupé

The emotion of car design : P1800 concept coupé

Irv and his P1800 on cover page of Hemmings for his 3 mln miles achievement !

Definitively a consecration to be on "The" Classic Cars reference, Irv and his P1800 on cover page of Hemmings Dec issue for his 3 mln miles achievement ! In newsstand Nov 12th; get yours!