--- Jerry Mouton <jerry@moutons.org> wrote:
> Craig,
>
> Sure! Everybody knows that "Volvo"
> is Latin for "I roll" ; -)
>
It is? I sat through years of Latin at school and
learned very little except:
Latin is a dead language
Dead as dead can be
First it killed the Romans
And now it's killing me.
I liked math better....
Craig
> Jerry
>
> Jerry Mouton mailto:jerry@moutons.org
> Laissez les bons temps
> rouler!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "craig boyle" <craig_autox@yahoo.com>
> To: "Jerry Mouton" <jerry@moutons.org>; "Anthony
> Tabacco"
> <atabacco@california.com>; "Dennis Hale"
> <dhale_510@yahoo.com>
> Cc: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 9:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Volvo 444
>
>
> > One of the first autox's I ever attended featured
> a
> > 122 doing a 360 degree roll, back into its wheels
> and
> > continuing it's run. I was so new, I didn't know
> that
> > this wasn't a common occurrence.
> >
> > I was impressed. Did you get a chance to test this
> > feature of your Volvo Jerry?
> >
> > Years later, i.e. last year. I came across a very
> > nice 122 guarded by two trained monkeys in a
> Malaysian
> > jungle aboriginal village, but that's another
> story...
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Craig
> > --- Jerry Mouton <jerry@moutons.org> wrote:
> > > Tony,
> > >
> > > Right on #1 -- mine was off-white with red
> interior,
> > > broken right side door handle!
> > >
> > > But I protest -- the 122S was a GREAT car!
> Superior
> > > to the
> > > 444 in every way but style, a classic in the
> sense
> > > that people
> > > ignore ugly old cars just the same as they
> ignore
> > > ugly new cars.
> > > I autocrossed mine once, at Pleasanton as I
> recall,
> > > in the '70s or '80s.
> > >
> > > Jerry
> > >
> > > Jerry Mouton mailto:jerry@moutons.org
> > > Laissez les bons temps
> > > rouler!
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Anthony Tabacco"
> <atabacco@california.com>
> > > To: "Dennis Hale" <dhale_510@yahoo.com>
> > > Cc: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> > > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 11:36 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Volvo 444
> > >
> > >
> > > > Dennis, Dennis, Dennis. All 444s were
> off-white.
> > > They all came with red
> > > > interiors. And they all had a broken right
> door
> > > latch. Even if (it after
> > > all
> > > > being the sixties), we had by some chemically
> > > induced nocturnal
> > > > miscalculation, inadvertently driven off with
> Aunt
> > > Minnie's Mercury, there
> > > > would still be that split flat plate
> windshield
> > > between us and the night.
> > > > The sad truth is that virtually all the 444s
> were
> > > actually owned by people
> > > > who have come over the years to be associated
> with
> > > this list. Is that cool
> > > > or what? All 544s were owned by junior high
> school
> > > English teachers. This
> > > is
> > > > not commonly known, but it is none the less
> > > true.The 122 is noteworthy for
> > > > reasons that must be lost to non-PBS
> subscribers.
> > > > Tony
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Dennis Hale" <dhale_510@yahoo.com>
> > > > To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> > > > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 6:23 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: Volvo 444
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Are you guys sure you all had 444s? They
> were
> > > pretty
> > > > > uncommon in the USA. The first ones in were
> > > '67s, I
> > > > > don't think we got any '65 or earliers. By
> '69
> > > they
> > > > > had become 544s and were fairly common. 444s
> had
> > > small
> > > > > round glass lens taillights, a big chrome
> center
> > > in
> > > > > the dashboard, and a two piece windsheild.
> 544s
> > > had
> > > > > oval plastic taillights, a dash without the
> '50
> > > > > Mercury looking chrome center, and a curved
> one
> > > piece
> > > > > windsheild. Some got a nice 4 speed gearbox
> with
> > > gears
> > > > > interchangeable with Ford Mustang V8
> gearboxes,
> > > way
> > > > > strong! The old three speeds were weak. The
> > > 1600cc 3
> > > > > mainbearing engine grew to 1800cc in '61 or
> '62
> > > and
> > > > > got a full 5 main bearing crank, again a big
> > > > > improvememnt. The 122 replaced the 544 in
> '64 I
> > > think,
> > > > > but then again they may have been sold
> together
> > > for a
> > > > > couple of years. There also were 445 wagons,
> but
> > > I do
> > > > > not recall any 545 wagons.
> > > > > Wix has just stopped supplying the air
> filters,
> > > I have
> > > > > been useing them on 510s.
> > > > > Before 510s and Beetles I had a 544 problem.
> My
> > > '59
> > > > > went almost 500,000 miles. I also had a '57,
> > > '58, and
> > > > > a 445 wagon that never actually ran but had
> very
> > > nice
> > > > > wooden slats and panelling inside.
> > > > > I still have a set of hubcaps hung in the
> > > garage, and
> > > > > a paper weight rear main bearing part of my
> > > broken
> > > > > crankshaft [three main 544].
> > > > > 8-)
> > > > >
> > > > > =====
> > > > > Dennis Hale
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