1969 VOLVO 144 SEDAN Lot of (3) Original Vintage Ads ~ FREE SHIPPING!

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1969 VOLVO 144 SEDAN Lot of (3) Original Vintage Ads ~ FREE SHIPPING!
1969 VOLVO 144 original vintage advertisements. Lot of (3) ads.
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The execution is different, but the concept is basically the same.
Both vehicles are very difficult to destroy.
However, the M-48 (at right) was built to withstand slightly meaner treatment than the Volvo 144 (at left).
As a result, the M-48 weighs in at 88,000 lbs And for all its bulk, carries only three men — in extreme discomfort we might add.
It burns two gallons to the mile and won’t go over 30 miles an hour.
In other words, it’s a tank.
The Volvo, on the other hand, weighs in at just 2,600 lbs. And for all its lack of bulk, carries five men — in extreme comfort.
It gets close to 25 miles to a gallon even with automatic transmission, and will go fast enough to attract police cars. Which are faster but not as strong.
In other words, a Volvo is strong in the way a tank is strong and has strengths where a tank has weaknesses.
Just how strong is a Volvo?
You could stack eight Volvos, one on top of another, without disturbing the Volvo on the bottom. That’s a total of 10 tons. Six steel pillars, boxed for maximum strength, support the roof, (it’s ironic that Detroit calls cars with no steel pillars “hardtops,” when in reality they’re just the opposite.)
Each side of the Volvo body is made from one solid piece of steel. There are no weak points because there are no seams. In other parts of the body, where seams occur, 8,000 spot welds fuse them together.
It’s this kind of construction that led Car & Driver Magazine to make the following observation. “... the Volvo is possibly the toughest vehicle
anywhere this side of the Aberdeen Proving Grounds and there is a growing legion of happy owners who will be glad to verify the point.”
The Aberdeen Proving Grounds, incidentally, is where the Army tests tanks.
It even has armor-plating.
Volvo has a finish six coats thick. First the body is etched in zinc phosphate so the paint gets a vise-like grip on the metal. Then it’s dunked in rustproofing primer. The body then gets one undercoat, one sealer coat and three color coats of baked enamel. 33 lbs. of protection in all.
It’s because of this that you hear stories like this...
One day a friend of this writer told of an experience with a dent in the door of his Volvo. He had it repaired and noticed that the shop charged him a modest sum for body work but nothing for paint. Being honest, he raised the point. The body man explained that after banging out the dent, the paint was still undamaged—so there was no need for a re-paint!
A Volvo doesn’t self-destruct in three years.
There is an obvious advantage in owning a car that’s built like a Volvo. Once it’s paid for, there’s still something left to own.
A Volvo can help you fight off the impulse that drives you into debt every few years. Because by keeping it, you can begin making payments to yourself instead of the finance company.
Of course, if you’re not interested in adding money to your coffers, you can sell your Volvo after three years. And delight in how little you lose.
Volvos depreciate as slowly as they disintegrate.
VOLVO
A most rewarding part of owning a Volvo is selling it.
A car that’s good to sell is a good thing to buy.
Because someday you’re going to have to sell it.
If you went to sell a five-year-old Volvo today, you’d get the same price, or higher, than your neighbor with a three-year-old compact. (Don’t just believe us. Check the classified section of your newspaper.)
Basically, there are two reasons for this.
First, more people want to buy Volvos than sell them. It’s a simple ease of supply and demand. To get a Volvo owner to part with his car, the buyer must bear the cost of separation.
Second, there's the fact
that
Volvos
depreciate
slower
than most cars. Due to the fact that Volvos age
slower than most cars.
Right now Volvos age so slowly, they’re driven an average of 11 years in Sweden before they're retired. We don’t guarantee Volvos will last that long in America, but we do know that 95% of all the Volvos registered here in the last 11 years are still on the road.
Which brings up another rewarding part of owning a Volvo: keeping it.
You can hang onto a Volvo for a few years and spend some time filling up the pages of a bank book instead of just tearing out the pages of a payment book.
So if you don't want to buy a Volvo for how little it loses you, it’s nice to know you can always buy one for how much it saves you.
VOLVO
In an all-out quest for speed, Volvo introduces an engine that’s 3 m.p.h. faster.
Volvo for 1968 could only do 103. Whereas Volvo for 1969 does a blinding
106.
Obviously, we’re a long way from a new world’s land speed record.
But then our new engine wasn’t designed for victory on the salt flats. It was designed to do better on the street.
So we put the emphasis on take-off and abandoned all thought of flight.
As a result, Volvo will now get you from a stopsign onto a 65-mile-an-hour superhighway faster.
It passes with greater ease.
It runs quieter because the new engine doesn’t work as hard.
And it’s got enough reserve power to handle creature-comforts like automatic transmission and air conditioning.
All things related to how quickly a Volvo goes, of course, can best be demonstrated in a 15-minute test drive.
You still have to take a Volvo home and keep it a few years to see how slowly it wears out.
VOLVO
SPECIFICATIONS:
Black & White
Photo
Size -
Full Page - 8
inches x 11 inches -
20 cm x 28 cm, each ad.
ALL SIZES ARE APPROXIMATE DUE TO CROPPING
Country - USA
Grading - Excellent
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