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Feb 28, 2011 21:55:15 GMT
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All I know is this. picture entitled: Ole Sommer Volvo Described as: One of very few ever built One comment: The coachbuilder is Ole Sommer from Denmark. He was the officiel danish Volvo-Dealer for many years.  Original picture location: www.flickr.com/photos/28291883@N03/3087925870/Also, that I really like it and would love to know more. |
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fogey
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Feb 28, 2011 22:21:20 GMT
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And from the rear -  Captioned as 'Raymond Sommer's attempt at a Volvo Amazon Coupe' The only Raymond Sommer of note that I could find is a French GP Driver but as he died in 1950 It obviously wasn't him . . . |
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dugong
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Feb 28, 2011 22:35:37 GMT
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Ole Sommer was, as you've said, a major Danish Volvo dealer. Around the same time Jacques Coune was creating several drophead Amazons (not to be confused with the Volvoville and Radford P1800s that came later) he decided to create a one off coupe. The body was hand fabricated off a wooden styling buck and the rear screen came from a Jaguar XK150 (presumably one that hadn't been banger raced).
There's more in Walter Wolf's book on the Amazon if you're interested. I don't think my Anders Clausager history of the 120 series mentions it.
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fogey
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Feb 28, 2011 23:02:28 GMT
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Feb 28, 2011 23:05:33 GMT
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Interesting. Never seen that before. The shortened wheelbase has made that rear overhang look reeeeeaaaaaaaallllllly long. Relationship of front screen to side windows looks a bit odd to me too. Maybe the screen is actually another car's rear screen?
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable. |
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Feb 28, 2011 23:10:46 GMT
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Despite looking like an Amazon, it's actually a PV544 Duett chassis underneath!
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dugong
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Feb 28, 2011 23:10:52 GMT
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Maybe the screen is actually another car's rear screen? The front screen is actually a rear Amazon screen. |
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Feb 28, 2011 23:17:16 GMT
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From AD Clausager (The Essential Volvo 120 Series And P1800):
'In 1960 Danish Volvo dealer Ole Sommer had a one-off coupe built on a shortened chassis from a PV445 estate car, incorporating 120 series panels for the front end while the rear body was hand-built with aluminium panels. The car used a twin - carb B16 engine. Its windscreen was a 120 series rear screen. The seats, rear screen and other parts were taken from various Jaguars, a make for which Sommer was the Danish agent. The car was originally sold, but in 1968 it was bought back by Sommer and added to his sizeable private car museum on the outskirts of Copenhagen.' (1996: 35)
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