Friends,
I used to think that the Volvo P1800 was the prettiest car ever built, and when you look at this it’s hard to argue… 
However, when the Swedes wanted to build their own Corvette, they came to the left coast of America in the mid-1950s and tapped Glasspar to fab up some prototypes. What you see at the top is the product of this weird two-year experiment. It’s gorgeous, it’s terrible, it sounded to the president of Volvo at the time that it was falling apart. It was called the Volvo Sport or the Volvo P 1900 depending on who you ask (on which continent). They made 68 of them (the chassis numbers go up to 67, but they made two number 20s because they’re stark raving loonies) between 1956 and 1957.
I’d like to have one, please. Thank you.
– bob
P.S. And to think, all this started from a poster of Volvo wagons on Jalopnik. The internets are one big rat hole, aren’t they?