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The car: 1981 Volvo 262C Bertone
Price: $3,000
Location: Gunbarrel (Boulder), Colorado, USA
Seller’s Info: Click Here
Boxy Volvos from yesteryear are nothing out of the ordinary. However, this 1981 262C Bertone is not your usual Swedish brick. For starters, its design was inspired by an American car–the Lincoln Mark IV–and final assembly was performed by Bertone in Torino, Italy rather than Sweden. The coachbuilder added a custom greenhouse, a rakish angle to the windshield, and a leather-and-wood interior, transforming an ordinary 262GL two-door into a chopped-roof luxury coupe.
This particular specimen, one of 912 made in 1981, even has a four-speed manual gearbox. The owner of this 159,000-mile rarity states, “I have put over $3k into it and I drive it weekly with no problems. The work on it has been done at Swedish Motors here in Boulder.”
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Petrolicious makes no claim as to the accuracy of the information contained in the car’s original listing, nor will it be held responsible for any errors in said information. If you’re interested in this car, do your homework and research it extensively before you buy.
I’m a huge Volvo fan myself 🙂 Favorite dealership hands down is Volvo of Overland Park (for MO/KS residents): http://www.volvoofop.com/
The one you want is the successor to this model, the Volvo 780 Coupe, which was imported from 1987 through 1991. Also styled by Bertone, it didn’t look anything like this backyard hack job, but it did look like a Volvo, even though not one panel was shared with its 760 stablemates. Add a gorgeous Italian leather interior and Volvo’s healthy and robust 4-cylinder “red block” turbo, and you had one very stylish (and rare) cruiser. Just don’t prang it, body parts are unobtanium. How about a feature on this?