Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Welcome to Down On The Street , where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Many East Bay Amazons have been getting crushed , but this one is safe on the Island. I'm having a tough time figuring out the year of this 122S; the early-series yellow-on-black license plates mean it's no newer than '63 or '64, and the grille also suggests...
driverchris (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Lordy they just keep on coming... It's rare to see a Volvo Amazon in Britain these days, but they're still reasonably common in Stockholm, and it's kinda understandable, they have a solidity that underpinned Volvo's reputation. So what better to do with a clean '67 Amazon than give it a bit more go? Linköpings Motorsport have upped the power to five hundred BHP and got it down to a sprightly tonne....
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
There’s nothing like internecine Scandinavian warfare when it comes to mad sleepers: hot on the heels of last week’s Saab 99 rocketship comes this Volvo Amazon . Definitely not your granddad’s Amazon. In spite of its ferocious name and its compact but good looks, the Volvo Amazon is not a sports car. Far from it: the Amazon is a Swedish family sedan built half a century ago. With...
Classic cars, rallies and races (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
It is back to gravel for the final round of the Dunlop/Gambia MSA British Historic Rally Championship , the Trackrod Historic Cup (26 September). The season decider will be played out in the famous Yorkshire forests, starting with a 16-mile stage in Dalby and a superb field of nearly 70 cars will gather in Pickering for an early start on Saturday morning. Category 1 Heading the field away will be the...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 13/09/2009
I've built a successor to the original LeMons BumperCam camera , and the Heroic Fix Award-winning Volvo Amazon-driving Tunachuckers let me install it on their C pillar. Then their new B20 engine got a bit fiery . Here's a shot of their driver, moments after escaping his burning car at the side of the racetrack. BumperCam 2.0 (aka C PillarCam) captured plenty more good shots as well, so check back...
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akbw (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
Just three random photos of cars that I took yesterday. Saw this old classic Volvo Amazon/122. From left to right; E90 LCI BMW 320i, E90 LCI BMW 325i Sports (behind the doors), E36 BMW 325i, E90 BMW 320i Sports (there are two, one's the one with the plate no. KBP21 and the other is the silver one behind KBP21 (not the one on stilts), E90 BMW 320i (the one on stilts). Saw this fellow E36 BMW 325i in...
Photos From Haninge (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
Here are a few more shots from the cruiser meet. The first photo shows Rebecka, Teddy and Madde, three of the people that I met and asked to pose for a portrait. As you already know by now there was a Greaser Girl contest, and I'm sure both Rebecka and Madde got a few votes. If you are wondering about Rebecka's tattoo, I believe that it depicts Hylonome who was a Kentauride (a female Centaur). The...
Photos From Haninge (Free subscription) | 31/08/2009
I guess I should explain a little about the subculture known as raggare (greasers or cruisers), in Sweden. It is people that love American cars from 1950s and 1960s. And everything else American from that era. Although there are of course also many raggare that drives a Swedish Volvo Amazon. Their preferred choice of music is rockabilly, and obviously Elvis Presley is the king. Every weekend they dress...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 30/08/2009
Would you believe that the same junkyard with matching white Volvo Amazons also boasts a pair of matching white Ford Falcon Rancheros? These two classic Ford cartrucks have been picked over pretty well, so at least we know that other Rancheros (and probably Falcons and Comets) will benefit from the resulting organ transplants.
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition , where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot . You never know what you'll find in Copenhagen! I've been falling really, really behind on Down On The Street Bonus Edition photos, so I'm going to try to get back on track with the series today with this contribution from Kim Of Copenhagen. : Encouraging...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009
Yessir, I sure do love visiting the junkyard, and all those Junkyard Find posts have resulted in some photographs that look snazzy as computer desktop wallpaper . We provided wallpaper images for your phone , but there was a troubling lack of junkyardness in those choices. So, I've picked out some of my favorite rusty, crusty junkyard shots and resized them to fit the most common monitor resolutions...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 26/07/2009
Welcome to Down On The Street , where we admire old vehicles parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. We've seen a white 1966 Amazon coupe , and here's a matching sedan. We see Amazons on the racetrack and in the junkyard , but many of the not-as-old-as-they-look Swedes still see daily-driver service in California. This one is on the rough side, but the rust looks...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 18/07/2009
Just yards away from the now-much-picked-over junked Volvo Amazon , I stumbled across this incredible trifecta of junkyardy goodness at my local self-service yard. Three cars that each deserve the full Jalopnik Stamp-O-Approval™! The one that caught my eye first was the very clean, automatic-equipped 1976 BMW 2002 . The odometer reads just over 4,000 miles, which means it's either a very well-maintained...
Classic cars, rallies and races (Free subscription) | 14/07/2009
The unique challenge of the Isle of Man marks round five of the Dunlop/Gambia MSA British Historic Rally Championship , the Isle of Man Historic Rally on 9/10 July. The annual trip across the water to the Isle of Man is always one of the highlights of the BHRC schedule. Two full days of intense competition on the island roads makes the Isle of Man Historic Rally a fitting event for this prestigious...
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