Introduction
Isaac Wass
Volvo rarely produced coupés, which makes you wonder why, especially when they succeeded in designing something this striking.
Launched in 1961, the Volvo P1800 was Volvo’s answer to a 2+2 front-engine, rear-wheel drive sports tourer. The body styling was done by Swedish designer Pelle Petterson, with the first prototype ready in 1957, known as the X1. This was driven to the headquarters of Karmann in West Germany, who would take on the tooling and building of the P1800. Unfortunately, this was cut short when Volkswagen stepped in with the threat of cancelling their contracts with Karmann if they took on the project, as they saw the P1800 as competition.
With a contract for 10,000 units with Jensen, it didn’t take long before Volvo realised that the quality control from the Brits was sub-par, and in 1963, after just 6,000 cars were produced, Volvo ended the contract with Jensen and moved production to their Gothenburg factory in Sweden, where the car became known as the 1800 S. The S denotes they were made in Sweden. The 1800 S was also given an 8bhp power increase until 1969, when the B18 engine was replaced with the B20B engine, producing ~118 bhp. Then, in 1970, came the addition of fuel injection and a revised camshaft, pushing the 1800E to ~130bhp.
This lovely 1800E has been with our vendor, Nic, for the past five years, Nic carried out some body restoration just after he bought the car, including a full bare metal respray, Nic owned a bodyshop perviously for over 20 years so was very selective on which bodyshop he chose to do the work.
The car is MOT and ULEZ exempt.
This listing was written from information supplied by Isaac after meeting Nic the owner, and having visited and photographed the vehicle.
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