Volvo 122S - Safe, Sensible, and Supremely Swedish - Classic Car Showcase | E2E E08

I'm smiling as I watch your snazzy presentation of the iconic 122S. A cool car, a fun narrative, beautiful scenery, and a very super job of putting all this together. My wife and I enjoyed driving our 1970 145S in the 70's and 80's. It was more to us than just a average American family car. Once again, Well Done!

Very nice video! Fun fact: Jan Wilsgaard, chief designer, made the Amazon lines - and the boxy 740 with, say 30, years apart. Trends... Btw, the Volvo safety icon is really the 240 (apex of ICE car evolution). Imho.

Oh man! That opening short is fantastic! HAHAHA!!!! Ovlov! The 122S has the same horn button setup as my 172S did. I used to use the metal frame to do rapid fire honking. The speedo was the same with the strip in mine as well, it was one of my favorite styling features. The ebrake location is also one of my favorites as a left-hander :) Now I really want to track down another 144S. You guys are a bad influence on me!

You guys never fail to give me a good cackle with these shows. This time around it was the "Ovlov" bit that did it best. Of all the cars you guys showed so far, though, this is the one I'd probably most love to drive given the chance. Looks safe, looks comfortable, looks fun.

This car figures into some of my strongest sentimental memories. I could not help smiling all the way through. Your good camera work and production effort is quietly excellent. Thank you from Deschutes County and also “😊Go Ducks!”

Delight only a 3? I get SO much attention driving my Amazon! People always ask “what is that?” Or “My neighbor had one of these when I was a kid”. A school crossing guard even made me stop to ask me about my car. As for driving it, I never get out of the car without a smile. Love the looooong shifter and the ribbon speedo display.

New subscriber here! I own one of these and stumbled upon your video. The production value is incredible, well done and nice in depth look at the car. Thank you! I gotta get me one of those roof racks, but not any roof rack with a classic look is hard to find for these cars.

BTW that ribbon speedo cluster should be grey crackle paint paint. Usually it cracked and fell off over time like your example. And those 'traingle vents' are called 'No-Drafts'. Invented by GM in the 1930s

What beautiful Amazon, I love the color! My first car back in 1978 was a white '65 four-door that my grandfather (who was from Sweden) gave to my dad when he stopped driving, then my dad gave it to me when I started. I now have a '67 two-door that I bought in 2021, which I daily drive. I have done a lot of work on it but fortunately it has good paint and zero rust, being from Arizona. Bummer about your dash getting cut for the radio, Mine was the same, I bought a used, unmolested dash for it, looks so nice with an original radio in there. I noticed yours is missing the package shelf under the dash, mine was too. Used ones are usually pretty beat up but VP Autoparts sells a repair kit for them.

Personally, the earlier Volvos had much more character than the 80's & 90's models. It seemed Volvo lost a bit of their soul in that era. I drove a '73 1800ES for more than a decade (and still have some spare parts). That was - and is a car I will always treasure. Perhaps an 1800ES will find its way into the Haugland Collection some day as well.

I was in Portland yesterday and I literally took the drive from IKEA down here (making a stop in Colton). I really like the route you took!

Enjoyed it! Looking forward to getting my Amazon assembled and driving it.

It's so cute. Especially with a little ski rack 1:12

Parts availability was nil 25 years ago. I couldn't even buy a set of points for my Volvos back then. Things have improved.

I love the comment about the flat packed furniture :-)

In my mind the Volvo Amazon is the last truly great Volvo, i've got one and honestly it's remarkable how amazing it is to drive while it ALSO looks great!

And the Brits got the ribbon speedo right in the Austin America and MG1100 with a non angled end.

My 122s coupe has coils in the back not leaf springs. I was under the impression they all had coils?

One of my students said very snarky that she couldn't understand how volvo still hav the symbol for male and not the female logo, ver flabergasted i stuttered that itsn't the symbol for male, its the old symbol for Iron as Iron in a Element. Volvo was always proud over the steel they used, high quality swedish steel...

From when Volvos were really genuine cars, functional, robust, durable and no electronic trickery and I learned that 122s had optional overdrives..