Advertising Last completed movie pages 1969 Volvo 142 S Ep. 1.09Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
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◊ 2015-07-09 01:16 |
Volvo 144 ? |
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◊ 2015-07-09 01:20 |
![[Image: 80.4.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/17474/80.4.jpg) |
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◊ 2015-07-09 03:29 |
Seems to have a sidemarker with missing lense  |
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◊ 2015-07-09 05:12 |
142, 1967-70 (smaller wheel opening) U.S. Models were AFAIK 142S. |
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◊ 2015-07-09 09:51 |
1968+ sidemarker, 1969+ headrests. |
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◊ 2015-07-10 17:29 |
I used to have a 1969 Volvo 142, and I understood that pre 1969 models had upholstery in vinyl, MY 1969 had upholstery in cloth, but without headrests as standard fittings, and MY 1970 onwards had headrests fitted as standard. My 1969 had no headrests. But, and this is a major but, that was for the Swedish market. Other countries had their special specifications. Also, I believe that all Volvo's from the mid 60's until the late 90's sold in the U.S. were made in Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_Halifax_Assembly . |
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◊ 2015-07-10 18:36 |
The Halifax assembly plant did not make any more than 10-11 thousand cars in any single year, most for the Canadian market. In the 1960s, Volvo sold between 14 to 40-thousand cars each year in the USA, the 1970s sales rose to 40-60 thousand a year, in the 1980s-present, sales have been between 60,000-over 100,000. There was no way the Halifax plant could provide enough cars for the US market, most were imported from Sweden. When I looked up VIN numbers of 940 models on Cars.com (a model that Wiki says were mainly made in Canada for the North American market), only one listed was made in Halifax, all the others were made in Kalmar, Sweden. -- Last edit: 2015-07-10 19:21:25 |
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◊ 2015-07-10 23:37 |
@night_cub: Thank you for your kind answer, this has been bothering me for quite some time. But, are you sure they were made in Kalmar and not at Gothenburg (Göteborg, Torslanda)? The reason for my question is that the Kalmar plant was, as far as I know, an experimental plant where cars were made much more thoroughly than at Torslanda, among other things at a slower pace. Hence a Kalmar car should be a little better than a Torslanda one. Perhaps they were specially made for the U.S. market, to make sure people didn't sue Volvo? In the end it was too expensive to make cars like that and Volvo closed the plant after a few years. Instead a company (Adtranz I believe) began to build trains, among them those for the Stockholm Underground. |
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◊ 2015-07-10 23:45 |
Based on the information here: Link to "en.wikibooks.org" The plant code was "0" for most of the 940, "1" for the 960s, and only one had "3" for Halifax. I didn't check other models that may be made there, just checked the 940/960 models that Wikipedia claims "most" North American models were manufactured at. My main point is that we do not know for sure which plant US models were made at, but most were manufactured in Sweden. Also plugged several into a VIN ID checker: http://www.vindecoderz.com/EN/Volvo An example of one checked: http://www.vindecoderz.com/EN/check-lookup/YV1JS8800P0124923 -- Last edit: 2015-07-10 23:47:31 |
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◊ 2015-07-10 23:56 |
Perhaps I expressed myself a little bit too vague. I'm sure you're right, and thank you for providing the information. Now I know where the Kalmar cars went. |
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◊ 2015-07-11 00:16 |
just tried it with my Versa's VIN and no engine code works ( wish i had the last one in it  ) |
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