I’ve been seeing this Volvo 122S around town for several months, and I finally caught it taking a brief curbside rest. Now I’ve written up the 122 before, and there’s several still in town. But this one has something a bit different than the gag-me-if-I-see-one-more-pair-of-fuzzy dice hanging from the rear view mirror.
Before we look inside, you might also want to note the rather eclectic random assemblage of other cars in this shot. It’s not wall-to-wall CUVs yet in Eugene, thankfully.
Enough suspense already. Not exactly warm and fuzzy.
It’s not an artfully done proper hangman’s noose, but it seems to have done the trick.
What more can I say, except that it’s a breath of fresh air to see a 122 in regular daily use, even with a noose.
I haven’t seen one of those Lexus ES250 sedans like the one driving past around in a while.
If I had to own a Volvo, any Volvo, the Amazon would be the one.
That noosed baby doll is gruesome. Reminds me of those anti abortion talks we had to sit through in Christian school in the South.
Oops .
-Nate
Gosh, careful Nate
Good Grief. Now that’s ^^^ a WHOLE hell of a lot more gruesome than the baby doll. 😉
This is such a cool and good car. I still have the 1966 I bought in Sweden 20something years ago. It was my only car for years. It looks terrific and it never, ever broke down (including in the winter snow on German autobahns).Thanks for this nice write-up, now I really feel like brushing off the dust on this old beast and getting it on the road again.
Hmmmm.
A doll effigy hanging from the mirror, a Hurst gearshift handle and sheepskin seat covers on an old 122.
The owner of such a car is definitely a person not afraid of the PC police, and someone I would like to get to know.
Just my thought.
Then there is the possibly random substitution of vowels on the bumper sticker.
I’ve always thought the Amazon looks a butch member of the Alfa family. Strong resemblance in the overall lines, greenhouse, rounded shoulders, etc.
Good call, but that Volvo face is totally 55 Chrysler.
The first car I ever drove!
Well, it bucked at bit at launch, and I coaxed it around the block, if you can call that ‘driving’
Well done; the Swedes’ product line extension of the ’54 Chevy!
I had a ’66 2-door sedan which was a tireless and faithful beast that I reluctantly parted with due to ‘marital discordance’ involving my spouse’s reluctance to properly master the 122’s clutch.
Cars and marriage don’t always mix…
Only on that car would I rather see fuzzy dice – which I despise – than what the owner has hanging there now.
I like these too. Does anyone else see about a ’56 Imperial in 7/8 scale in the overall look of these?
Great-looking cars. There’s a nice green Amazon coupe that I see sometimes running around Richmond, wearing a set of gunmetal Panasport wheels. Twentysomething guy behind the wheel. I admire his choice of vehicle!
I’m not a great rwd Volvo fan, but I could take one of these, minus the mirror ornament.
I’ve seen a Swedish registered example in our English village on a few occasions over the last couple of years, inevitably when I’ve not got a camera with me. Tidy looking, cared for car but not a garage queen.
There’s an Amazon station wagon about 10 blocks from my house. They remind me a little of a VW Squareback.
Read somewhere that they used tooling from the 52-55 Willys Aero for this model. Any truth in such story?
No. One look at an Aero would make that pretty clear: https://www.curbsideclassic.com/curbside-classics-american/curbside-classic-1953-willys-aero-lark-the-failed-sneak-preview-of-the-falcon-lark-and-other-compacts/
Nice article and find – I think these Amazons look great – very balanced design. And as much as I’d love to have a very nice original or restored model, every time I see one my inner Gunnar Andersson comes out and I want to flog it down some unpaved, mountain road. It’s a Volvo, it ain’t gonna break…
I like the car but don’t really care to see his mirror decoration. Fuzzy dice are cliched but this is just in poor taste.