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Post by stu chacks » Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:24 pm


Good work Savina, so could one of our European members over the water contact the dealer and find out what happened to it?

http://www.dealer.volvocars.be/vermant/

Think this is the dealer in question? Oooh, Davinci Code vibes here, can we track down the lost 480 cabrio? :dunno:

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Post by ForZe » Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:53 am

lol @ davinci code.

Sombody should e-mail them :D perhaps they still have it on sale ;)
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Post by Bakke » Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:46 am

It isn't on sale and I doubt it ever will. I've seen her for real 2 years ago at a belgian 480 meeting and it was breathtaking :hopping:
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Post by Bakke » Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:48 am

BTW, the car still runs, his wive drives it ...
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Name: Goldlocks // Type: TURBO // Year: 1988 // Colour: 435 Saffron Pearl // Engine: B18FT (1.7) Rica chip, Custom Volvo widebody and lots of ICE

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Post by p0bel » Fri Jun 16, 2006 3:33 pm

I wouldent had let my wife drive a car like that. sry girls, but you cant drive ( some can). but I dont even think his wife know what a beauty she is driving :(

ps. to all the girls in the 480 club, you are all gudd drivers I belive ;) :lol:
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Post by SteveR » Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:58 pm

Ye are treading dangerous path on thin ice with Joolz, Sophie and Kirsty (Despite your caveat) but to name a few who might see this thread.
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Post by p0bel » Sat Jun 17, 2006 1:08 am

I am not saying that they ar all bad drivers, most of them arnt. But allmost every time I allmost have been crashed inn to, it is a girl. sorry girls, dont meen to be a jerk :? it is proberly just norwegian old ladys that cant drive :lol: :wink:
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Post by Scoobs » Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:31 pm

This is an old thread I know, but for the avid collectors, there is some guy (or girl?) on EBay who regularly puts up the official catalogue pic of the soft top. A colleague of mine hwo has driven these things for far too many years recalls they were available on the continent only but seems to think they were a short lived affair. Still bloody tasty though!
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Post by JohnTurbo » Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:48 pm

Very short lived...there was what? Two official volvo cabrios?
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Post by Big Brother » Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:54 pm

I thought they never left the show room
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Post by Macaroon » Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:10 pm

2127 wrote:The name next to the number plate is that of Volvo Coolman, a Volvo dealer in Knokke-Heist, a Belgian sea resort.
Man, if I had a Volvo 480 Cabrio, I would change my name to Coolman, straight away. 8)
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Post by Agwa Moose » Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:53 pm

volvo-bigbrother wrote:I thought they never left the show room
There were a few more that were converted to cabrio by another company (belgian I think) that did see private ownership and road use

Read that somewhere.....

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Post by Bakke » Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:47 am

Agwa Moose wrote:
volvo-bigbrother wrote:I thought they never left the show room
There were a few more that were converted to cabrio by another company (belgian I think) that did see private ownership and road use

Read that somewhere.....

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That would be only one. The red EBS cabrio which is now property of a Volvo garage owner.

The 480 cabrio was ready to launch, the dealers allready got the numberplates with "480 cabrio" to put on them in the showrooms and a bunch of documentation maps for interested customers(the ones he's selling now on ebay)were already printed. The they they should have gone into production, the factory went bankrupt, so no official 480 saw the dailight, just some prototypes got rescuet.
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Post by Joolz » Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:53 pm

Thought I read somewhere or was told that they couldnt actually get the hoods to fit the body correctly and therefore would never be watertight......or did I dream it :dunno:

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Post by Mark 480s » Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:53 pm

@Joolz
Watertightness never appeared to stop Volvo selling the 480 !!? :rofl:

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Post by Joolz » Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:59 pm

:lol:

you are soooooo right!



!watertightness..what a damn good word
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Post by Big Brother » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:50 pm

I knew there were several projects attempted by enthusiasts to make a Cabrio but as far a I know non of them succeeded

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Post by Macaroon » Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:20 pm

Joolz wrote:Thought I read somewhere or was told that they couldnt actually get the hoods to fit the body correctly and therefore would never be watertight......
How could you tell? Water in the footwells????? :lol:
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Post by coyote1980 » Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:40 pm

Bakke wrote:The 480 cabrio was ready to launch, the factory went bankrupt, so no official 480 saw the dailight, just some prototypes got rescuet.
From what I heard indeed one of the (key) suppliers went bankrupt.

But I am always feeling 'strange' when I read that, how can you invest so much money in a project like this, have all the parst sorted out and ready for production, and not willing to arrange for another manufacturer to produce the parts the bankrupt supplier was to deliver? :dunno:


The 480 does need reinforcing, anyone attempting to simply remove the roof must know this. It doesn't have to be by using a roll-bar (but that is the safest way of doing it I guess) but you can also well in several reenforcement pipes throughout the floor / sides.


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Post by Brasco » Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:57 pm

I just don't think the 480 was selling well enough for another variant unfortunately. Ah well... handling would have been crap anyway lol.
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