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I went and parked by the side of the road. I brought coffee and some Fig Newtons and some Milanos, and a little table and chair. A couple of Amazons drove by and beeped their horns, then one stopped, then another. They had coffee and cookies and I got to see their cars. I would not call the cars I saw daily drivers, I would call these concourse cars. The interiors were perfect with no rips, dashpads were not cracked, paint was outstanding. There were some tasty modifications like a center console in the green car with a large opening and leather boot to accomodate the long "pudding stirrer".
After these two, nobody drove by for an hour so I packed up and went home. I did see two other Amazons later that evening at a gas station on a different route and spoke to those folks as well. All four cars I saw had custom wheels. I saw two sets of MiniLites and those nice 5 spoked ones you see on the blue car. Also a set of widened regular 122 wheels.
I saw something I'll probably never see again, The green car is a '69 122 2 door with factory B20. The blue car had a nice pair of 40mm Webers under the hood.
Someone told me the Dutch Volvo club has 4000 members and thats about equal with the VCOA, if you can believe that. They make these jaunts regularly and have been across the Sahara, across part of Russia, and a few other exotic places. Everyone I met was very nice and I highly recommend getting out and looking at these cars and talking to these folks!
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Volvo Farmer: 21 Volvos '58-'91 445-544-122-144-1800-240-740 sorry, no FWD
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