480 Cabrio
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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
Whoever said : " A Volvo cannot be tuned ?!? "
Name: Goldlocks // Type: TURBO // Year: 1988 // Colour: 435 Saffron Pearl // Engine: B18FT (1.7) Rica chip, Custom Volvo widebody and lots of ICE
Name: Goldlocks // Type: TURBO // Year: 1988 // Colour: 435 Saffron Pearl // Engine: B18FT (1.7) Rica chip, Custom Volvo widebody and lots of ICE
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
ps. to all the girls in the 480 club, you are all gudd drivers I belive
[color=orange]Volvo 480 es 87 Black pearly red.
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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
[color=orange]Volvo 480 es 87 Black pearly red.
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http://www.pobel.tk[/color]
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!
Remember - they still turn heads!! 1996 Dark Grey Celebration 453/480
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Man, if I had a Volvo 480 Cabrio, I would change my name to Coolman, straight away.2127 wrote:The name next to the number plate is that of Volvo Coolman, a Volvo dealer in Knokke-Heist, a Belgian sea resort.
Tonee: '93 Two Tone. High mileage but nice 'n' tidy.
Sheba: '91 ES Paris Special. Love that leather, baby. Scrapped and used as a spares car.
Sheba: '91 ES Paris Special. Love that leather, baby. Scrapped and used as a spares car.
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That would be only one. The red EBS cabrio which is now property of a Volvo garage owner.Agwa Moose wrote:There were a few more that were converted to cabrio by another company (belgian I think) that did see private ownership and road usevolvo-bigbrother wrote:I thought they never left the show room
Read that somewhere.....
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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.
Whoever said : " A Volvo cannot be tuned ?!? "
Name: Goldlocks // Type: TURBO // Year: 1988 // Colour: 435 Saffron Pearl // Engine: B18FT (1.7) Rica chip, Custom Volvo widebody and lots of ICE
Name: Goldlocks // Type: TURBO // Year: 1988 // Colour: 435 Saffron Pearl // Engine: B18FT (1.7) Rica chip, Custom Volvo widebody and lots of ICE
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
Would have no hesitation in selling my soul for that 480 Cabrio
Would have no hesitation in selling my soul for that 480 Cabrio
Volvo 480 Celebration 466 Dark Grey Metallic (PUS)
previously
Volvo 480 2 ltr Paris Blue
Volvo 480 2 ltr Peacock Green
Volvo 480 1.7 White
Volvo 760 GLE Saloon 2.8 V6 Blue
previously
Volvo 480 2 ltr Paris Blue
Volvo 480 2 ltr Peacock Green
Volvo 480 1.7 White
Volvo 760 GLE Saloon 2.8 V6 Blue
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How could you tell? Water in the footwells?????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......
Tonee: '93 Two Tone. High mileage but nice 'n' tidy.
Sheba: '91 ES Paris Special. Love that leather, baby. Scrapped and used as a spares car.
Sheba: '91 ES Paris Special. Love that leather, baby. Scrapped and used as a spares car.
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From what I heard indeed one of the (key) suppliers went bankrupt.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.
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?
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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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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