Volvo 480 Club Europe

Incidentally, all this subject brings to my mind another question.

Assuming that SK-94-JG and SH-55-ZL are older cars than, say, SR-66-YZ, TR-79-ZK and even HIT 124, and these latter are real US cars, then the change from the "old" dash to the "new" dash was dictated by US plans???

In a certain way, that would mean all european turbos sold to people have "US dashboards" !?

SR... and HIT... (fully debadged) have, both, US identification plates.

480's partner wrote:

Ettore Bugatti wrote: ...The Autovisie scan will follow soon....

Please don't forget!

He forgot!

SK-94-JG

He forgot!

I must admit I had an unpleasant feeling this week, didn't know the cause though (editor: it's amnesia)

Anyway to make it up. These lovely two pictures (I think the G on the plate is wrong)

Thank you very much!

GK-88-JG is from early eighties, and the 480 was introduced in '86. First 480's had P-series #.

I think, that someone made photomontage of the license plates

Interestingly, this picture came from a 1988 volvo catalogue:



So, my theory could be right

Which country/ language catalogue is it?

The 1988 brochures I have, show the 1x1000 rpm counter.

I cannot believe such detail was that important for the potential 480 owner

Ettore Bugatti wrote:Which country/ language catalogue is it?

The 1988 brochures I have, show the 1x1000 rpm counter.

I cannot believe such detail was that important for the potential 480 owner

EB, it's the 1988 volvo 480 tourist and diplomat sales catalogue.

Take a look here: http://www.volvo-480.org/catalogues/1988tds/slide.html

Maybe it was not that important back then, but now...

Must be a different version to yours. The link shows 10x100 rpm.

480's partner wrote:

Ettore Bugatti wrote:Which country/ language catalogue is it?

The 1988 brochures I have, show the 1x1000 rpm counter.

I cannot believe such detail was that important for the potential 480 owner

EB, it's the 1988 volvo 480 tourist and diplomat sales catalogue.

Take a look here: http://www.volvo-480.org/catalogues/1988tds/slide.html

Maybe it was not that important back then, but now...

Like I said on the french forum, in my mind, it's a "photomontage"...

Take a look on these pictures (radio chanel, etc...) taken from an ES catalogue and a TDS (with turbo)

Thanks for the observation, AOD!

So, the same car (?) was used in two different dashboard configurations (for the catalogue pictures):

One for the ES (without the extra dials) and another for the Turbo (with the dials).

Maybe the second configuration never came to be produced* and sold, but nevertheless the picture came from volvo and perhaps that was how the turbo dash was supposed to look in the beginning. (my point)

* Except for the Autovise and AutoKampioen test cars