Volvo 480 Club Europe

mandi wrote: ↑

Mon May 27, 2024 8:41 pm

hi martin

i guess one of the oldest and first cars is my one.
my FIN is 500184
production date acc volvo homologation dept 02.1986

got austrian authorization and registration in october last year
... now it's on the street again

mandi

Nice!! That is OLD! What's the model? An ES?

Thanks James - do you know the first registered dates for the 2 red UK launch cars by any chance?

I was watching a UK launch video recently and I think the cars were left hand drive

Thanks Edie - Keith's is D864 CPV.

Alberto Locati in Italy is keen to find out the answer to this question. Alberto is the President of the 480 Club Italia.

One of the Italian 480 ES cars was registered on 7 November 1986. Is anyone aware of an older car and what's the oldest car that you are aware of in your country?

Martin

Anyone else considering this? I know Jeff is, me too

I was told recently by a Danish friend that the Crown Prince of Denmark had one at one time.

Good news! Any suggestions for a meeting place and a route for a drive? I like Winchester very much but I don't know the area particularly well.

The following email was sent earlier this evening to everyone who registered for last weekends get together in Germany and the Netherlands. We have found that some of the previous emails have been filtered out into spam folders and it also contains early details of an event planned for 2 years time ...

Is this potentially of interest to anyone? Ellie's keen to meet other 480 owners as sadly she had to turn back in Belgium last Friday on the way to the European meeting due to steering problems. Duncan is in Basingstoke and has had his white 480 from new. He's keen too. I am in Fareham. So Wincheste...

brinkie wrote: ↑

Tue May 21, 2024 10:40 am

I hope someone will put video footage online of the Q&A with the design team, there were some interesting anecdotes

We are working on getting it uploaded Robert

94 cars from Italy, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, France, the UK and of course Germany and the Netherlands. What a day! I have counted 96, including the red 480 Cabriolet and a guy from Belgium (who was about to travel on to take a flight to Canada) who arrived later. I am so happy I have ...

66 cars yesterday in Germany - including a few new ones, 1 from Poland!

A wonderful weekend. It was great to meet fellow 480 enthusiasts from France, Belgium, Italy, Finland, Sweden, the UK and of course Germany and the Netherlands

94 cars from Italy, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, France, the UK and of course Germany and the Netherlands. What a day!

I am really looking forward to meeting many of the group members on Friday evening in Bruggen and in Eindhoven on Saturday! The weather forecast is wet at times over the weekend so do bring suitable clothing and coats etc with you. It's been typical May weather this week - beautiful warm days and th...

As long as you don't leave the motorway to enter Antwerp city centre or Scheldt left bank, you're good. The motorways around Antwerp more or less form the boundary. Scroll down on this page to see the map: https://www.slimnaarantwerpen.be/en/LEZ Good luck with the traffic jams, as they can be quite...

So does anyone know for sure if the low emissions zone around Antwerp applies or not? This is as clear as mud!

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2024/04/24 ... ion-zones/

I soooo wish I could attend this. It's exactly why I bought the car, to attend events like this. Bloody kids and bloody exams! 🤬😡 Mine just said he wanted to come with me on Saturday 18th, despite being in the middle of his exams. It's Pentecost weekend, which is in The Netherlands followed by a ba...

Please check your emails - the last event email was sent out earlier this evening.

Tough to believe, but we have just gone past the 100 car sign up number.......it should be a great event! There will be one more email update communication going out to everyone who has already registered in the next 48 hours. Thijs, Jan and I look forward to meeting a lot of old and new 480 friends...

jifflemon wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 26, 2024 2:35 pm

Yup! Don't ever expect the roller blind itself to repro'ed though!

That's a bridge too far!