Historia : Oct 20, 1965_Last Volvo PV rolls off the assembly line At 3 p.m. on October 20, 1965, the very last PV-series Volvo drives off the assembly line in Lundby, Sweden. The car, a zippy black Sport PV544 with red interior trim, went straight to the Volvo Museum in Gothenburg. PV-series Volvos had been in production, first as the PV444 and then as the PV544, since 1947 and 440,000 sold in all. By the end of its run, the PV was old-fashioned–looking—the company had made very few cosmetic changes in the two decades the car had been on the market—but it remained a good, solid automobile. Above all, Road & Track magazine said in 1963, the Volvo PV544 is such a practical car. Volvos most attractive appeal lies in its solidity and its quality in every single respect. There is nothing slapdash or under-dimensioned about any part of the car and that is more than enough to compensate for any perceived lack of glamour. Source : history/this-day-in-history/last-volvo-pv-rolls-off-the-assembly-line
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 14:56:09 +0000
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