Super Rare - 1956 Volvo Sport P1900

[trev0006]

from the article:
This 1956 Volvo Sport P1900 is chassis number 19 of 68 built. Bodied in Fiberglass over a conventional tubular steel chassis, they very rarely come up for sale, and when they do they’re often much worse off than this very nice looking example.

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[JDS60R]

That's Cool

Thanks Trev !!!

[93Regina]

This 1956 Volvo Sport P1900

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Apparently, someone wants to unload it...its in at least three sites now.

Myself, I'd pass...can anyone say UGLY? And with a B14 engine, you best not drive it much

[shiloh51933]

I think it's gorgeous!! I've never seen one of these before but it looks mint.

[jimmy57]

I have seen three of these and they are cool but you HAVE to think about it as a 56-57 model. The fit and finish is equivalent to unrestored first series Corvettes. Everyone I know that is a gearhead and old enough to have been a gearhead in the 50's tells me that restored classics from the 50's are far better cars than they were new. Better paint and better fit. The Glasspar influence is obvious. The hood hinges are the same as what they use on leisure boats for storage hatches and engine cover. The cars I looked over smelled like fiberglass boats.
I can imagine the grille design was influenced by the jet engine intakes on fighter jets of this era.

[93Regina]

I can imagine the grille design was influenced by the jet engine intakes on fighter jets of this era.

Maybe yes, maybe not...a little history tidbit:

1950s Buick Roadmaster - "The idea for VentiPorts grew out of a modification Buick styling chief Ned Nickles had added to his own 1948 Roadmaster. He had installed four amber lights on each side of his car’s hood wired to the distributor so as to flash on and off as each piston fired simulating the flames from the exhaust stack of a fighter airplane. Combined with the bombsight mascot, VentiPorts put the driver at the controls of an imaginary fighter airplane. Upon seeing this, Buick chief Harlow Curtice was so delighted that he ordered that (non-lighting) VentiPorts be installed on all 1949 Buicks, with the number of VentiPorts (three or four) corresponding to the relative displacement of the straight-eight engine installed."