Volvo P1800 - International Owners Club

Door Lever Volvo 1800S et 1800E | Repair Bushing

The door levers of the Volvo 1800S and 1800E series (up to and including model year 1971) are repeatedly defective and therefore require extensive maintenance.

Therefore we offer here a bushing made of polyamide /nylon PA12 for the repair. It can be downloaded free of charge as an STL file and produced via the portal of a service provider for the additive manufacturing process/3D printing.

More information here

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Brain-teaser Bibendum, beach game

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It is certainly the most common and the most mainstream representation of the Michelin Man. Curiously, this 6 cm high Brain-teaser Bibendum is also one of the rarest in the collection, their owners stubbornly refusing to part with this childhood memory!

Actually in the 60-70's, from Touquet to Biarritz, passing through Saint-Malo to Royan, tens of thousands of children were a part of Michelin's beach game. Every afternoon Michelin's publicity cars settled in a different seaside resort. Bibendum distributed to every child present on the beach a bag with the famous Brain-teaser in pieces. The first one who managed to rebuild this Bibendum received beautiful gifts emblazoned with Michelin, including balloons, and everyone carefully preserved their beach Bibendum.

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Bibendum beach game 1960-1970's
White coloured resin
Height: 53 mm
Weight: 14 g

One of the rarest on the Michelin collectibles market!

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Collector beach game 2021
White coloured resin
Height: 25 cm
Weight: 3 kg
The head and the legs contains some magnets

Production limited to 150 copies.

Remake of iconic 1964 shot

Wilhem Franke (SE) presents his well-kept Volvo 1800S in a blog. Admire his brilliant idea here and visit the site!

A few original P1800 images glues themselves into the mind. One of them is a shot of a red ’64 in old town Stockholm, coming up from a narrow alley to the main square. During season this place is filled with tourists and the cafe’s in the buildings have big outdoor serving areas built on wooden platforms. But by late october [2015] these are dismantled. Traffic is forbidden most of the day but early in the morning residents can drive there. All alleys are one-way so a route has to be planned and there is not much time as people gather quickly in a place like this, so e.g. no time for tripods. So here’s the hit-and-run shot:

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Original inspiration from ’64. Not identical but sort of close. Both buildings had cafés in the 60’s too. Interestingly the sign in the alley says “wood and coal”, probably a testimony of the housing standard around here 50 years ago. Today it is very different. Image belongs to Volvo Cars but free to use. Neat.

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