{"id":75843,"date":"2024-08-17T12:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T16:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75843"},"modified":"2024-08-17T12:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T16:03:33","slug":"junkyard-gem-1965-volvo-amazon-wagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75843","title":{"rendered":"Junkyard Gem: 1965 Volvo Amazon Wagon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Volvo did reasonably well selling the homely PV444\/544<\/span><\/a> in the United States beginning in the middle 1950s, and its better-looking successor first appeared on our shores as a 1960 model. That was the Amazon<\/a>, which was available here through 1968. Today’s Junkyard Gem<\/a> is one of those cars, found in a Northern California self-service yard<\/a> recently.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Amazon name wasn’t used on these cars in North America (they were given 122S badging here), but everybody uses the home-market name for these cars by this time.<\/p>\n

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The engine is Volvo’s reliable 1.8-liter pushrod straight-four, rated at 115 horsepower and 112 pound-feet.<\/p>\n

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The transmission is a four-speed manual.<\/p>\n

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I’ve found quite a few discarded Amazons during my junkyard travels<\/a>, as these are rugged cars that have long inspired powerful affection from their owners.<\/p>\n

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This one was so beloved that its final owner penned a farewell note to its flank before sending it on its final tow-truck ride to Pick-n-Pull. The car saved at least two lives, though it would have been nice to get more details here.<\/p>\n

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The car that did it all!<\/p>\n

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It was in rough shape by the time of its retirement, with the top-down rust you see on California cars that live near the Pacific and its salt spray<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Junkyard shoppers had purchased most of the interior and trim components by the time I arrived.<\/p>\n

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The replacement for the Amazon was the 140<\/a>, which arrived in the United States as a 1968 model and later evolved into the 200 Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Turns you into a Swedish rally driver!<\/p>\n\n

Volvos are built so well that they last an average of 11 years in Sweden.<\/p>\n\n

The best Amazon commercials are in Swedish, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Volvo did reasonably well selling the homely PV444\/544 in the United States beginning in the middle 1950s, and its better-looking successor first appeared on our shores as a 1960 model. That was the Amazon, which was available here through 1968. Today’s Junkyard Gem is one of those cars, found in a Northern California self-service yard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}