Welcome to the first ever IEDEI mystery car challenge. I will be very impressed if someone is able to identify this car! Make and model. There are no penalties for wrong guesses!
Welcome to the first ever IEDEI mystery car challenge. I will be very impressed if someone is able to identify this car! Make and model. There are no penalties for wrong guesses!
IEDEI 
Coggiola Volvo 1800 ESC?
wow. i am truly impressed! nice one, Serguei! i suppose i need a more challenging subject next time!
Unfortunately, it’s easy to cheat these days with Google Image Search: http://x.servoweb.net/gd
I knew it was a Volvo (but not the name), but the cheat option is ofcourse not something you want for a challenge like this.
Next time, you should photohop the picture to make it less easy for the ones who like to cheat 🙂
No cheat! Really no interest to cheat! I’m just a 60-70-80’s popular cars fan! 😉
Wished I would of opened up the site earlier . Its right there in my copy of :” Volvo P1800 ; the complete story ” by Meridith . Dang !
OK Syed ; So on this very subject …. heres the question of the day for your readers ( feel free to put this as a post of your own if you chose …. its on me )
” What do the Volvo P1800 and James Bond have in common ?”
No hints , its a little known fact but I will say there is a very ‘ powerful ‘ connection ( oops that may of been a hint 😉 )
( the answer is historical fact BTW : NOT internet fluff and I’ll post the link with the answer if you take me up on this )
one-time bond actor roger moore drove a p1800 in “the saint.”
what do i win?
Nothing ! You are correct , but not the ‘ powerful ‘ answer I’m looking for !
No the answer I’m looking for is much less known and a lot more obscure than Roger Moore being 007 and having driven the P1800 ( as well as buying one for himself ) in ” the Saint ”
A hint ; You need to know both your Volvo and British car history to know this fascinating little tid bit
Oh … and no the British car history I’m speaking of is not Jaguar . That one is internet /gearhead myth . Nope …. this one’s really ” Obscured by Clouds ‘ to use a musical reference . The woeful tale of – Would Of / Could Of / Should Of – as it relates to the P1800 as well as the P1800ES
was it that the early cars were built at the JENSEN factory?
Close ( its a part of the back story ) but no .
This one will blow your mind when you read the full story .
Another hint ;
Had this happened Volvo most likely would be a very different company
No further takers on my little – albeit difficult challenge heh? Oh well . Here’s the answer
Both ( 007 & the P1800 ) have had an Aston Martin under their hood
The short story being in the second year of P1800 production Volvo commissioned AM to build a higher performance engine for the P1800 in order to get the horsepower up the the chassis capabilities . AM did so by lopping off two cylinders from their Six , built at least 4 motors and two complete running prototypes …. and then ! Volvo discovering the abysmal quality of builds coming from Jensen decided to move the P1800 production to Sweden making the cost of shipping and tariffs for the AM I4 prohibitive . AM was unable to trim the costs . the prototypes were returned to Volvo I4 power and the engines lie fallow ( at least four and maybe six ) for decades until Mr Roos discovered two of them , got one running and tucked it into the snout of his daily driver P1800 . What could of been gentlemen … what could of been . Here’s the link to the full story as well as Mr Roos’s Aston Martin/Volvo P1800 . Reading the commentary on the car its pretty obvious what we missed out on .
Click to access volvoP1800_s.pdf
BTW. If its any consolation , I’ve stumped hard core Aston Martin Collector/Owners/ Experts with this one .
very interesting!! had no idea. thanks for that info