Get a load of this! period dealership photos 1988

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Get a load of this! period dealership photos 1988

Post by MisterH » Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:28 am

https://www.alamy.com/volvo-car-dealers ... 27591.html

https://www.alamy.com/volvo-car-dealers ... 27598.html

Amazing to look back, the picture quality is superb, a real snapshot, I wish I could go back and experience it...
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Re: Get a load of this! period dealership photos 1988

Post by Norm57 » Thu Mar 26, 2020 12:15 pm

My first 480 was sold by them although I bought it from a used car lot. It still had the Harrats stickers on the glass and reg plates.

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Re: Get a load of this! period dealership photos 1988

Post by Jay-Kay-Em » Thu Mar 26, 2020 12:27 pm

Absolutely WOW!

What hi res for 1988.

I’ll study these in detail when I get home.

What is the 480 strap line in the showroom window? “Lose your heads?” :bla:

The 300 was always seen as the poor stable relation in certain Volvo communities but what is clear is the amount of 300’s in these pictures and indeed sold in the UK.

Just weird seeing A reg cars in a main dealer workshop!

That 240 GLT in blue with tan leather is simply stunning.

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Re: Get a load of this! period dealership photos 1988

Post by MisterH » Thu Mar 26, 2020 1:18 pm

whats the car in middle of this pic next to the Cavvy?

https://www.alamy.com/volvo-car-dealers ... 27290.html
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Re: Get a load of this! period dealership photos 1988

Post by MisterH » Thu Mar 26, 2020 2:09 pm

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Post by brinkie » Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:05 pm

I started to browse the (very expensive) pictures offered on this web site, followed the link of the photographer who made the pictures of the dealership, because obviously this guy was active in the late 1980s. Just being curious to life in the 1980s and 1990s and clicked on the very first picture with a lot of parked cars in it, just wondering which models I could recognize, maybe even a 480...
I've struck gold on the very first picture I've been looking at :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
https://www.alamy.com/pontefract-genera ... 50508.html
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Re: Get a load of this! period dealership photos 1988

Post by MisterH » Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:20 pm

brinkie wrote:
Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:05 pm
I started to browse the (very expensive) pictures offered on this web site, followed the link of the photographer who made the pictures of the dealership, because obviously this guy was active in the late 1980s. Just being curious to life in the 1980s and 1990s and clicked on the very first picture with a lot of parked cars in it, just wondering which models I could recognize, maybe even a 480...
I've struck gold on the very first picture I've been looking at :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
https://www.alamy.com/pontefract-genera ... 50508.html
That's a brilliant find, now which code Red is that? :lol:
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Re: Get a load of this! period dealership photos 1988

Post by Jay-Kay-Em » Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:35 pm

MisterH wrote:
Thu Mar 26, 2020 1:18 pm
whats the car in middle of this pic next to the Cavvy?

https://www.alamy.com/volvo-car-dealers ... 27290.html
1976 or ‘77 Toyota Corolla Liftback....

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 2597689368
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Re: Get a load of this! period dealership photos 1988

Post by MisterH » Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:45 pm

Jay-Kay-Em wrote:
Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:35 pm
MisterH wrote:
Thu Mar 26, 2020 1:18 pm
whats the car in middle of this pic next to the Cavvy?

https://www.alamy.com/volvo-car-dealers ... 27290.html
1976 or ‘77 Toyota Corolla Liftback....

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 2597689368
How rare is that! Its amazing, I must be addicted!
came across a photo of a Subaru dealer selling an RX Turbo 4WD coupe!

AND
another photo of the volvo dealership WITH A -CPV REG PRESS CAR!!!!
https://www.alamy.com/volvo-car-dealers ... edoptin%3D
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Re: Get a load of this! period dealership photos 1988

Post by edie_fox » Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:14 pm

Oooooh, a rabbit hole to get lost down there!

A nice turbo....long gone.

https://www.alamy.com/1989-volvo-car-de ... 84168.html

and I'm guessing this is them now perhaps....minus Volvo rights?

https://www.harratts.co.uk/

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Re: Get a load of this! period dealership photos 1988

Post by edie_fox » Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:20 pm

MisterH wrote:
Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:45 pm


AND
another photo of the volvo dealership WITH A -CPV REG PRESS CAR!!!!
https://www.alamy.com/volvo-car-dealers ... 27307.html
D753 CPV - guessing eyes! Comes up with a red 480 reg 27 May '87. I love the interstalker. :lol:

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Re: Get a load of this! period dealership photos 1988

Post by MisterH » Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:21 pm

edie_fox wrote:
Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:14 pm
Oooooh, a rabbit hole to get lost down there!

A nice turbo....long gone.

https://www.alamy.com/1989-volvo-car-de ... 84168.html

and I'm guessing this is them now perhaps....minus Volvo rights?

https://www.harratts.co.uk/
Look how shiny the lights are!
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Re: Get a load of this! period dealership photos 1988

Post by edie_fox » Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:25 pm

Bet their arches are already bubbling though. :lol:

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Re: Get a load of this! period dealership photos 1988

Post by MisterH » Thu Mar 26, 2020 7:23 pm

edie_fox wrote:
Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:25 pm
Bet their arches are already bubbling though. :lol:
Wow, I never thought I would find such a repositry, all I need now to make it perfect is seeing a period pic of our 1986 Audi quattro with my granddad at the wheel, oldest picture we have of the car is from 2004 with me as a toddler next to it...
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Re: Get a load of this! period dealership photos 1988

Post by MisterH » Thu Mar 26, 2020 7:28 pm

Shall we make this a thread of how many 480s we can spot in this guys archive? I get the impression they were never thick on the ground, but they were 'around' unlike today

Heres one on regent street (it says):
https://www.alamy.com/1992-mayfair-lond ... edoptin%3D
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Re: Get a load of this! period dealership photos 1988

Post by dragonflyjewels » Fri Mar 27, 2020 9:24 am

Wonder if it came from the same Mayfair dealer as the rejected pool car ;)
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