Used Car of the Day: 1967 Volvo 122S Amazon
Today we bring you something a little different: A 1967 Volvo 122S Amazon.
The seller says it runs, drives, and stops; but it needs a new front carb. The interior is "decent" and the exterior has no serious rust but some rust bubbles. Our seller says the floors and underside are "solid".
The exhaust was replaced last summer and the car is lowered on IPD springs.
I don't have a mileage, and the transmission is unclear, the listing seems to suggest an automatic was swapped out for a manual.
The ask for this Milwaukee-area car is $13,500.
If you're a Volvo person or just like uncommon classic cars, check it out here.
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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Listing has a feeling of honesty. Car looks nice and like it's worth some effort.
But I just can't get past my own childhood, which featured a number of Amazon-driving teachers at my school that required both hands to count. I will always see them and think of the nerdiest teachers I ever had.
After Studebaker closed up shop in South Bend and my grandfather had to move onto other places to design automotive parts (and the Studebaker free cars dried up for obvious reasons), he became a Volvo coupe driver, including one very similar to this one. I wish I remembered the exact model. He was at a red light, sitting in his similar Volvo, when someone speeding didn't stop in time and slammed right into the rear of his car. The entire trunk and part of the rear caved in like it should. And this is in the days before everyone wore seat belts and cars were nowhere as safe as they are now, including Volvos. When the police and paramedics arrived, they were absolutely stunned to see my grandfather sitting on the curb waiting for them. They thought they would find his body in the car. The other driver lived, but was in very bad shape. Even back then, Volvo designed their cars to sacrifice themselves and him driving this car and surviving helped give him another almost 50 years. And he got another Volvo. Our old cars have stories, and I'm sure this old Volvo has a few to tell.