Baffled by spottage - WTF is this?

[martc]

Was Erich Honecker sitting in the rear?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VkJMbCT6iE

[overrun]

Bulletproof? I want to weigh it in even more, now!

[richardmorris]

Was Erich Honecker sitting in the rear?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VkJMbCT6iE

I thought Eric preferred stretched CX prestiges.

[Jim Bell]

Jokes on him. All Volvos are bulletproof.

[martc]

I thought Eric preferred stretched CX prestiges.

 

I understand that the DDR Council of Ministers used both CX's and Volvos; see link below about a surviving Volvo, there is a picture of Eric about to climb aboard...

 

https://www.tag24.de/nachrichten/chemnitz-honecker-limousine-dienstauto-hobby-taxifahrer-70311

 

PS I have stood in the same spot shown in the first photo when Chemnitz was called Karl Marx Stadt and we were in the DDR. There was a Volkspolizei officer with a speed gun there, he stopped a couple two up on a Simson Swallow!!

[hairymel]

http://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/12/21/Walesa-arrives-in-Warsaw-to-take-over-presidential-job/2972661755600/

 

 

So its definitely* an ex Polish official car.

 

nope*

 

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiD-IDX8dHSAhWKI8AKHRQvD8EQFggaMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AVolvo_760_GLE_bullet-proof.jpg&usg=AFQjCNFPDWewe3O_BbQrKZI5U8gwPqiPyQ&bvm=bv.149397726,d.d24

 

 

[cobblers]

picture hosting

 

Even the rear door opening has been pissed about with - the shut line goes vertically up through where the window would have been.

[chaseracer]

http://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/12/21/Walesa-arrives-in-Warsaw-to-take-over-presidential-job/2972661755600/

 

 

So its definitely* an ex Polish official car.

 

Read the last paragraph.  Lech nicked the General's Vauxhall, the cheeky tyke! 

[michael1703]

I've got visions of the bad guy from " follow the money" driving it

 

 

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

Even the rear door opening has been pissed about with - the shut line goes vertically up through where the window would have been.

 

no the shut line is right its the window thats changed which should run parallel to door edge- it almost looks like they used the c- pillar glass

[cobblers]

Yeah, you're right. This car is incredible.

[Bianconeri]

possibly a nilsson conversion or a royal model or executive or something!

 

just a quick google shows some similar body styles.

 

awaiting expert assistance.....

My money would be on it being a Nilsson 740 Limo. There was a model with a smaller rear window, different door treatment and 20cm longer wheelbase I believe.

[Junkman]

OVLOV YM PMIP

 

LFOR

[JohnDeere]

MoT history thinks it's still silver. Doing only about 3k miles per year. Ironically lots of failing on missing rear lights.

 

Seems a fair bet that it's armoured. But, if so, why make the rear end look so odd? Armoured vehicles are usually built to look as anonymous as possible. And, if you were building an armoured Volvo you'd use a V6 as a base not the 2.3.

[JohnDeere]

Looks like this one - sadly on a page with no other info

 

[inconsistant]

It's got a tow bar, the chrome around the rear lights is that stick on Halfords stuff and it's wonky and the shut lines on the boot and doors are all over the place. It's not a professional conversion, it's either a film/tv prop or it's a home made shed piss about. I reckon.

[Snipes]

It's got a tow bar, the chrome around the rear lights is that stick on Halfords stuff and it's wonky and the shut lines on the boot and doors are all over the place. It's not a professional conversion, it's either a film/tv prop or it's a home made shed piss about. I reckon.

I suppose if you stuck on some American style number plates it could pass on as a Presidental limo. Y'know, to the uninitiated......

[hairymel]

Looks like this one - sadly on a page with no other info

 

 

still from the film Hajen som visste för mycket (1989 swedish comedy film - (English: The Shark Who Knew Too Much))

 

 17:08 onwards with more shite interspersed elsewhere in the film 

 

https://youtu.be/yxs4uimK9zo

 

 

few more on IMCDB http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?make=volvo&model=760+Executive&modelMatch=1&modelInclModel=on

 

still not quite right though 

[hairymel]

just the volvo bits https://youtu.be/UsZQnlExPN4

 

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Den Taksänkta 760'n från filmen "Hajen Som Visste För Mycket".

Enligt rykten ska den ha byggts till filmen av Volvo men sedan ha skrotats efter inspelningen... Tyvärr...

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1982 Volvo 760 Executive
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A roofchopped 1982 Volvo 760 Executive in the Swedish comedy "Hajen Som Visste För Mycket" . 

This unique and rare Volvo was built by Volvo only for this movie. Unfortunately the car was scrapped after the movie was finished...

But undeniably one very cool Volvo! Looks awesome Roof Chopped! 

 

 

 

[Guest bangerfan101]

I saw a volvo looking car driven by an Asian fellow. With the front end looking like a mk2 jag. Looked like that lepu fellow off chop shop had designed it?

[Captain Slow]

Holy thread resurrection. 

 

This bucket of thing seemingly lives near me, and has been repainted as a homage to the Greenwood in GTA San Andreas. 

 

 

Whatever he is smoking, I would like. 

[AltheJazzman]

This car is properly weird. Well done. My first though from the rear was it was trying to be Lincoln, but then I realised it's definitely trying to be a Volvo still.

[TheXUDfiles]

Looking at the previous posts, I am convinced this is some kind of official armoured version, but has been mucked about with.