Volvo Estate Owners: I need your help!

[vulgalour]

I've got a design planned and I'm struggling for references so I'm hoping you can help me.  If you have a camera and a boxy Volvo estate, I'd really appreciate it if you can provide me with a flat front, rear, and side view of it.  Ideally, it wants to be seen completely flat, no artistic upwards, downwards, or sideways angles.  This is surprisingly difficult to get references of, probably because it's not the most aesthetically pleasing view of a car.

 

The models I'm most interested in are 740, 760, 850, and 940

 

When I mean a flat view I mean like this.

 

But not like this.  This might look like a flat view but the front of the car is slightly further away than the rear and the camera angle is too high meaning you're looking down on it ever so slightly.  Normally this isn't a big deal, but for the design I've got planned, it is.

 

I hope you can help!  It doesn't matter if your car is a bit scruffy or pristine, stock or modified.  What matters is the angle of the pictures and that it's a boxy Volvo estate.

[aldo135]

All my pictures seem to be at an angle! Will take one of my 740 when I'm home, in an hour or so

[artdjones]

Google 740 estate dimensions and the first result in images is side view dimensioned drawing that should help.

[Dave_Q]

Vulg, have you tried https://www.the-blueprints.com/vectordrawings/brand/volvo/60/ ?

 

They have a few older models on there with proper side on views, you have to pay to get them full size but the previews may work for what you want?

[vulgalour]

artdjones and Dave:  I'm after photographs rather than diagrams and existing artwork, I find them easier to work from and put my own thing on the finished work.  Just personal preference there.

[cms206]

These do as a starter for ten?

 

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[Six-cylinder]

This is a 740 we used to own and I will look out my other photos.

 

If you want something particular then the current 740 G667 TKE  is on the drive and can be shot as per your instructions!

[rantingYoof]

Is parked on a kerb, but may work, or can be tweaked in Potatoshop?

 

[Six-cylinder]

This is the current 740 that can be moved into any position for photos. 

[Six-cylinder]

This is our other 740 but it is 200 miles away in Wales so getting more shots will take time.

[Six-cylinder]

A 850 I owned in 2002.

[forddeliveryboy]

Will do, is a 90s V70 ok?

[vulgalour]

Should do, those are the ones without the 240 cabin pinch or the roundy front end, right?  As long as it's boxy and fairly slabby, that's the important bit.

 

Absolutely excellent response thus far, there are several photographs above that are perfect and exactly what I was after so BIG THANKS for the rapid response there, Volvo fondlers!

[warninglight]

This old V70 is just a facelifted 850 so the side profile is just about the same...

 

While I was moving stuff about I thought I'd grab the same shots of the new to me XC70, as it's the last of the boxy-arsed Volvos, in case it's any use with your design...

 

 

[vulgalour]

Warninglight, those are perfect.  Maximum points, top of the class you go.  Angles, resolution, details, model shape... can't fault a single item.  I hadn't even considered the XC90, but it does fit the bill so it will add a bit of diversity to the design.

 

I should now have enough to actually start building the design from all these wonderful pictures provided.  People are welcome to add more, of course.  Thank you all for your help

[Rod/b]

Can you use blueprint line drawings for what you need?

[vulgalour]

Not really.  I prefer to work from photographs so I can put my own stamp on them.

[Tetleysmooth]

[alcyonecorporation]

Can you not correct to the perspective you need in Photoshop?

[Uncle Jimmy]

Only on Autoshite

[vulgalour]

You can sort of correct the perspective, but not really.  It ends up every so slightly off in a disconcerting way and you then spend time making lots of little corrections and making the whole thing look really off in lots of ways.  I like to start with decent reference.

[inconsistant]

I would help but the versatile forty has curves.

[warninglight]

I have a nice 240 saloon at the moment if you'd be interested in the same photos?

[vulgalour]

Yes please.  If I don't use it for this project (about 50% complete at present, encountering some issues with translating what I imagined into an actual picture) I'm sure it will be useful for another since the 240 is a car I want to create some more artwork of.

[hauserplenty]

 

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DGVeZ4XLo4Y

[warninglight]

Hope these are of use!

[vulgalour]

Perfect.  They actually highlight just how not-boxy the 240 really is too, especially when compared to the 740.

[filthyjohn]

I think this website might be what you're after. http://autowp.ru

 

It's a surprisingly comprehensive post-communist library of press shots for just about any car you can think of. Most of the stuff is available in monster resolution like this 2048×1536 beaut.

 

[rantingYoof]

Hello every single crossover ever made and a startling number of modern saloons that are designed to look like hatchbacks (looking at you, XF),

 

You see these photographs above? This is the correct and appropriate ratio of glass to bodywork, allowing people sitting in the rear seats, to actually SEE WHAT'S GOING ON and preventing travel sickness.

 

Regards,

 

 

Someone who has never, ever previously felt disorientated as a passenger in any car.

[warninglight]

Hope these are of use!