{"id":1987,"date":"2010-05-27T04:06:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T04:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/27\/2010-5-26-the-sexiest-car-in-the-world-html\/"},"modified":"2010-05-27T04:06:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T04:06:04","slug":"2010-5-26-the-sexiest-car-in-the-world-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/2010-5-26-the-sexiest-car-in-the-world-html\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sexiest Car In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/volvo-sport.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand; width: 250px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/volvo-sport.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Volvo 1900 Sport hotness.\" \/><\/a> Friends,<\/p>\n<p>I used to think that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volvo_P1800\" target=\"_blank\">Volvo P1800<\/a> was the prettiest car ever built, and when you look at this it&#8217;s hard to argue&#8230;  <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f8\/Volvo1800s.JPG\/800px-Volvo1800s.JPG\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand; width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f8\/Volvo1800s.JPG\/800px-Volvo1800s.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Volvo P1800 hotness.\" \/><\/a> 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volvoclub.org.uk\/history\/p1900.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">weird two-year experiment<\/a>. It&#8217;s gorgeous, it&#8217;s terrible, it sounded to the president of Volvo at the time that it was falling apart. It was called the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volvo_P1900\" target=\"_blank\">Volvo Sport<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volvoadventures.com\/1900.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volvo P 1900<\/a> 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&#8217;re stark raving loonies) between 1956 and 1957.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/21\/automobiles\/collectibles\/21volvo.html?scp=1&amp;sq=volvo%20sport&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">have one<\/a>, please. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<p>P.S. And to think, all this started from a <a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/data.tumblr.com\/tumblr_l2nh42Bi4u1qaipogo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&amp;Expires=1274990834&amp;Signature=5WcDNlLrPVsVuCU5sivhFnDHxrs%3D\" target=\"_blank\">poster of Volvo wagons<\/a> on Jalopnik. The internets are one big rat hole, aren&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, I used to think that the Volvo P1800 was the prettiest car ever built, and when you look at this it&#8217;s hard to argue&#8230; 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/2010-5-26-the-sexiest-car-in-the-world-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Sexiest Car In The World&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}