15k: Smoke And Mirror Finish: 1965 Volvo 1800S, Minty Clean
We typically don’t like to post cars that have no listed price because their owners think they are priceless…which is not the same. However, this particular car gets a ‘hall-pass’ because it is super clean and could potentially be had for a reasonable asking price if the owner isn’t fishing for an idiot. Find this Unsold-Adams candidate (saved from that fate only because it is so Minty Clean) a 1965 Volvo 1800S for sale in Palm Springs, CA for something below $20k via craigslist. Tip from Kaibeezy.
It sort of chaps our hide a bit when a seller puts a car for sale and doesn’t include an asking price…he only mentions that one in this condition has “priced as high as $20,000 on the Hagerty Insurance site”…for which we recommend looking up the definition of high in the Cheech & Chong film “Up In Smoke.”
A quick peak inside this minty-clean classic reveals a GT Grant wood trim steering wheel and everything else in flawless condition. The seller mentions that a Volvo 1800 was featured in “the James Bond film The Saint,” to which we say; James Bond was not in ‘The Saint’…the protagonist was…Simon Templar as “The Saint” (played by later James Bond actor Roger Moore). We will refer back to our previous comments about “Up In Smoke” or perhaps segue into a treatise on “Dazed and Confused”…alternatively we could Segway into a discussion of “Paul Blart: Mall Cop”…but that would be the Daily Filmrismo…another site..
Back to this saintly 1800S; it is powered by the B18 inline-4 cylinder engine, a 1.8 liter pup that puts out 108 horsepower. The 1800 series retained its displacement-derived-name even after upgrading to the B20 in 1969, a 2.0 liter engine, in marked contrast to modern day BMW, whose naming schemes have become so brazen in a desperate attempt to keep up with the Joneses Schmidts that you will soon be able to buy a compact 1.1 liter hybrid BMW with a 395i badge. You may say “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet”…we would have left Juliet for a more logic dame who won’t kill herself at the first sign of trouble.
The part of this ad that is easily as annoying as the clear lack of asking price is the fact that the seller was unable to capture the entire vehicle in a single frame. Surely with the garage door open it is possible to look through the viewfinder and take a bloody picture that includes the entire subject. Perhaps the seller is trying to avoid showing the C3 Corvette Pace Car Edition located in the bay next door…? We can’t image why…
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~ so it was in the film then switched/converted to left hand drive, right? seems to me the statement is untrue as phrased. nice car, needs more honesty.
~ one accessory i'm getting with my next Volvo;
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That was 1965, and thanks to the wonder of Google, here she is today…
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Might have been a respray in there 😉
I looked at this car in person. IT HAS RUST issues! It also has been hit in the front and rear. The owner is buried financially in this car and wants all his money back. It could be a highly acceptable driver but nothing more. It has been for sale for some time.
THANK YOU!! NOTHING takes the place of seeing it in person and having it reported back quickly! While our motto is "no better money spent than the last person's" you just saved a bunch of $$ for the equally important "next person"!
Amen, we agree nothing beats an in-person inspection!
I've been tying to see this car for awhile now and it's been one excuse after another why he (Rick)is not able to show the car and now I came across this website and I'm glad he's made it so difficult cause that saved me from making a big mistake and after reading the comments on here I think I will have to pass on this car and just keep looking. Rick if you read this (which you seem to do) stop yanking people around and do the right thing and sell your car at a FAIR price, just because you have a lot of money tied up in this car does not mean its worth every dime you spent
Scot, That accessory is definitely for a single man….
Rust issues? In an 1800??
By the way, for those still unsure: grass is also green, water is also wet, dodos are also extinct. TJ told us that we hold these truths to be self evident and I must testify. I like to think of 1800s as mechanical Swedish camels, able to find but a single drop of H2O and incorporate it into their bodies with remarkable efficiency.
By the way, if you're looking to score 20 large for your project-gone-awry/flip-that-done-flipped-ya, and you are going to throw out a pop culture reference that's germane to the proposed ware's provenance, try a little quality Google time, bro. The only association the 1800 had to 007 was its small screen costar status with Sir Moore, easily the wimpiest of Bonds (flame on, but I will defend that fact with vigor, for it is not an opinion). You want a Bond car reference that resonates? Think 2000GT 'vert from YOLT. For this, however, I shan't be holding thine breath. Drat.
Unsold Adams. lol stop it, just stop it.
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I see this website disclaims all responsibility of every kind. So don't believe everything you read Online. It’s easy to hide behind no-name “Anonymous". Right GLENN W.! The car is as beautiful as the pictures show, and GLENN-Anonymous-W. is just disgruntled because he couldn’t steal the car for $13K and is trying to scare others away who will know it's true value. Also, if the car has the problems he claims, why would he even make an offer of $13,000 cash!
The car has minor bonding in the back trunk and minimal rusting of 3/4 inch size across the under-carriage of the back end where water settles, which is natural for these cars. No accidents. Other than that the car is in excellent running condition.
Also, these pictures posted are NOT posted on Google. Which means Glenn came into my private home took these pics and posted them without my approval to this site.
Who else does this confuse? Who is Glenn W? Who is Rick? Rick – is this your car? Is it for sale via craigslist? Did Glenn sneak into your house and take these pictures and then post an ad for you? My head is spinning…
~ your response is appreciated, Rick. i understand completely how you feel if your private space has been compromised and your property violated. i am confused as to the pics of which you speak. has the link been removed?
. thanks also for editing the Bond/Saint reference.
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Off to godaddy to register dailyfilmrismo.com! Mwahahaha!
The daily filmrismo drama, world premiere: the darkly funny saga of Rick and Glenn's ongoing feud that began in high school when Rick (or Glenn) dissed Glenn (or Rick) in auto shop, in front on all the cool jocks over the timing on a supercharged SBC project. The offended never forgot, blaming the other for a lifetime of failures and underachievement, and he carries the grudge into adulthood, seeking to undermine the jerk in small and-ultimately-humorous ways that never really accomplish anything. Glenn (or Rick's) frustrations continue to build, pushing him closer and closer to his psychological breaking point. The climax of their seemingly-petty disagreement is when one accidentally kills the other after his minor sabotage of the other's 1800 project goes terribly awry…
Fin.
Farrelly Brothers to direct, for sure.
Except for that last part where everybody dies, I could have sworn you were recounting the episode of the Golden Girls where one old ladies high school rival shows up, the slutty one sleeps with someone, the dumb one talks about Wisconsin, Bea Arthur looks like a man and the grandma says hilariously inappropriate stuff.
Oh, THAT episode. Right.
We could have David Lynch direct but then Rick actually would have already died after Glenn pushed him over the top bleacher at the game that same night after the auto shop dis. Oh, and Glenn is actually serving time in a penal psychiatric facility and is mistaking one of the elderly volunteers there for Rick in his plot. Oh, and Glenn is actually a wildly successful reality star turned global icon in his own demented-yet-brilliant mind…
Did you just accurately describe Bubba-Hotep? Someone else saw the movie starring Bruce Campbell as a committed Elvis and his roommate, the African-American JFK ("See what they did to me…they turned me black!") ? I guess that makes two of us!
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Doc – your first plot summary sounded eerily similar to Corvette Summer and/or Christine. I can just see the bemulleted switchblade wielding bully (Glenn or Rick?) menacing the skinny nerd (Rick or Glenn?) and smashing his brown-bag lunch all over the shop class floor.
I don't know why I continue follow this B-movie…. but I do.
~ i know why i'm following, that's finely honed satire! more please.
-cause there's nothing else on… I know, I've checked all the other blogs!!
In one scene, Glenn sneaks into Ricks garage after the latter leaves for work and tries on the knit back driving gloves that Rick always wears when he takes his unrestored E-type coupe up Mulholland. Glenn can just barely get them over his pudgy fingers and he gets a little lightheaded with arousal when he takes a deep whiff of them… A little dizzy, he opens the door to the white 1800, silently sneering at the well-oiled door hinges as he drops into the driver's seat. Taking a deep breath he wraps the fingers of both hands around the thin-rimmed wheel and looks approvingly at his reflection in the dash mounted mirror. Suddenly he hears a quiet snicker emanating from inside the passenger compartment, and he slowly looks down towards the wheel, discovering the hub staring back at him through a pair of Cheshire eyes, leering, with a mouth turned in an evil sneer of perfect silver teeth. Glenn's heart begins to pound uncontrollably in his ears, and he slowly blacks out, the hub face repeating softly: "Where's Ricky, Glenn?"
I'm done now. Sorry.
~ any word from central casting as to who might be available to read for our two male leads? i mean besides Bea Arthur.
you guys are killing me!
I would like to fill people in on my dealings with Rick and his 1800. The owner of this cars name is Rick Gifford and he really is an actor (if you consider a couple of bit parts on law and order acting)and definitely not a man of his word.I have been in constant contact with Rick for the Past month trying to purchase said car and came to a agreed purchase price of 14000.00 to which he assured me I would be the first person he would show the car to when he was able to make it back to Ca. from New York where he was working and if the car was everything he said it was I would be the the new owner. Well that's not what happened,after stringing me along with false promises he kept looking for a better offer and found someone that would give him the full 15000.00 asking price then he made special arrangements for someone to show the car for him and sold it out from under me. I understand everyone wants top dollar for there car but most honest people would not do it in this manner. So Rick all I have to say for now is "break a leg" and I don't mean that in the show biz kinda way. In case you did this to multiple people Rick, this is Mike Driscoll just so you know!
~ i have all the empathy in the universe with you. i have run out of fingers and toes to count all the sellers and all the ways i've been dicked over. bust a nut, Rick.
thanks Scot, here is just one of about 20 e-mails between rick and I
Hi Mike,
Thanks for checking back in. I'm still traveling on business and my trip got extended. I will be back on the 9th and Im hoping to show the car to you on Monday the 10th if you're available and still interested. I have two standing offers for $13,500. And I have you and some other gentleman who is begging me to show him the car before you, but since you asked first I will show to you . At this point I really just want to sell the 1800. So if you came in first and had cash in hand (14K), I would drop $1,000 and say yes.
Rick
I've read through these comments, and most are Funny HaHa, but this Mike D's comments are funny Queer. Mike Drsicoll sounds like a real head case. Is this site about cars? Or guys crying like a little girl because they didn't get their toy? How old are you Mike? I've been screwed over on lot's of deals in my life, but nobody is obligated to sell anything to anybody at any cost. It's called Life. You win some & lose some. Is this the Mike Driscoll from MicroSemi Corp. ?? I have to know. If so I posted as Anonymous because I'm a client.
Wow. Mike Driscoll is very upset. VERY upset. About a car. Clearly, Mike Driscoll has too much time on his hands. I'll bet he screams at the Starbucks girl when she hands him the wrong cup of coffee. Little bits of white spittle form in the corners of his mouth as he scream "Get your hair paws on my cup of coffee, you damn dirty apes!" Eyes bulging, fist pounding. The whole bit.
In that vein, I've composed a small play below about this whole affair.
Setting: A shopping mall near you:
Scene: Mike Driscoll sits on Santa's lap, ready to ask for Xmas presents. A thousand other children wait for Mike Driscoll to finish.
SC: "Hello little boy, what would you like for Christmas?"
MD: "I'm Mike Driscoll!"
SC: "Yes, ok, Mike, what would you — "
MD: "Mike Driscoll! I'm Mike Driscoll, you fat bastard!"
SC: "What do you want for Christmas Mike?"
MD: "Driscoll! I'm Mike Driscoll! Of the Volvo Driscolls!"
SC: "Ok, uh…what do you want?"
MD: "Everything. I want everything."
SC: "Uh–
MD: "And I want it now. Now, dammit!"
SC: "Well, it doesn't work that way, you see people –"
MD: "Because I'm Mike Driscoll! You obviously haven't been listening."
SC: "Have you ever seen the movie 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?
MD: "Mike Driscoll doesn't read. Mike Driscoll drives!"
SC: "There's a girl in that story named Varuca Salt that you remind me of.
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(Mike leaps of Santa's lap and begins to sing to the melody of Varuca's song. His lyrics follow)
MD: I want some toys.
I want your toys, and his toys and those toys and her toys.
I want them now.
(refrain)
And and I don't care how,
I want them now
I want a car.
I want a Vol-vo.
I want that car
With red leather seats
The one that vroom, vrooms
and a horn that beep beeps
It want it like Ebert wants Siskel
I want it now because I am Mike Driscoll!
And I don't care how,
I want it now!
SC: "Yes, thank you son, for that — "
MD: "I'm Mike Driscoll!"
SC: "So you said. Many, many, many, times."
MD: "Mike Driscoll! I'm Mike Driscoll! Damn you! Mike Driscoll!"
A curtain draws, and a Christmas Elf in a 1965 Volvo 1800S drives over Mike Driscoll who bumps over the hood, smashes off the windshield. His left foot hooks on the rear bumper, which drags him behind. The car flies into the air, like Santa's sleigh, up, up bursting through the mall roof, and into the sky. The full moon silhouettes the car and Mike Driscoll. We hear…faintly "I'm Mike Driscoll!…." The crowd cheers.
SC: "Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night."
— end —
LOL I have a sense of humor and everything said has me laughing my ass off, thanks for putting it in a different perspective for me
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