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‘Tis the season for retro redesigns. Last week we showed you Arturo Alonso’s stunning Merc SL, and today it’s the turn of Mattias Vocks to dream up a gorgeous reworking of the Volvo P1800.
Vocks is a Koenigsegg engineer by day, but in his spare hours creates modified, retro-modern Volvos. This time he’s turned his attentions to the P1800 – the car driven by Roger Moore in The Saint, if you’re thinking it looks slightly familiar – with the help of Swedish design firm Vizualtech.
OK, it’s only a rendering at this stage, but it’s a good looking rendering, isn’t it? We like those skinny pillars and chromed front end, though we might change the wheels for something a little more classic.
Vocks is keen to put the P1800 into limited production, though, armed with a 4.4-litre V8 nicked from a Volvo XC90 and a big turbocharger to put out around 600bhp through the rear wheels.
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Return of the Saint
Swedish designer dreams up a modern P1800. Roger Moore will be pleased
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Mikeado commented on this article
at 02:05 pm on 06 May 2009
Yummy. Though the wheels are too big (they were on the Retromodern SL Gullwing too, come to think of it). But 600bhp? That makes it a little faster than the old P1800, then? The Saints Are Coming. Fast.
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zida commented on this article
at 02:58 pm on 06 May 2009
yeeees i want one
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Takk commented on this article
at 03:18 pm on 06 May 2009
I'd sign up, and it really doesn't have to have 600hp: 10hp would be quite enough to drive it out of the garage and park it in the sunshine. I'll just sit there looking at it, drooling. Although that Merc SL is very nice also... Hmm...
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at 03:52 pm on 06 May 2009
volvo? not bad. not bad at all. i would definitely want one
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Turbomatic commented on this article
at 04:21 pm on 06 May 2009
I know it is blasphemy but it looks a bit like a DB5, which is good, especially for a vovlo
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