On February 12 Scandcar (which sells a lot of new Volvo parts for classic Volvos) organized the Volvo Winter Trial in the southern part of The Netherlands and a small part in Belgium. Unlike many other Volvo Classic-events there was no limit in ages of the car or type of the Volvo. And that’s a very good thing! It’s much more fun when every Volvo is allowed to contribute and also delivers much more nice photos.

Thanks to my navigator (and brother-in-law) Mike we finished second in the Winter Trial and won a nice service package (which includes oil, oil filter, working gloves, brake fluid and a oil collector). Mike doesn’t own a Volvo yet (he drives a ’85 Mercedes-Benz 190) but after this Volvo event he’s sure he will buy a Volvo one of these days.

Here are the pictures I took of this Volvo rally. Enjoy!

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A very nice Volvo Amazon 121 early type	’51 Volvo PV 444 B-series with a “Cuckoo” fixlight (indicators) on the roof
Installing the rally shield	All types of Volvo are welcome
Inside Scandcar	Nice 240s and 740s
Volvo PV 444 Cabrio	The winner of last year: the Volvo 480 of Tune Nails
Volvo PV 544 C-series in rally-trim	Close parking
The Saint	A yellow ’86 Volvo 240 and a ’67 black metallic (resprayed) Volvo Amazon 131
Volvo 240 Van with nice front spoiler	Various Volvo classic cars
Volvo 240 Turbo in excellent condition	A very nice Volvo Polar and my 244
A nice black Volvo 245 with bignose	A ’84 Volvo 240 DL with Draco wheels
Volvo 144 with some nice mods
Lunch time at the red building in the background	And the other side of the cars
The sign of the plague cemetery	Pestkerkhof Alphen, a cemetery where people who died due the plague were buried, far away from the town
History of the plague cemetery	Memorial
The plague cemetery can be found in Alphen (Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands)	My Volvo 240 diesel
A nice small old road	The other side
Why is navigator Mike so happy?	Because of his new friend I guess….
The first Volvos at Koningshoeve	Volvo 145
Nice Amazon	Very nice car
Nice colors!	Again the former Volvo-dealer service car
A ’82 Volvo 240 GL	Volvo 244 GL ’79 and a MY95 Volvo 480 ES
This Volvo 244 GL has a 740 front spoiler	A very nice Volvo 245 Turbo
This Volvo 850 needs a car wash one day	A green Volvo Amazon with Ravus whitewall wheel trims
One of the first Volvo 1800S cars, the first versions still had the old type “cowhorn”-bumpers	Two nice Volvo Amazons
John and his ’77 Volvo 244 GL automatic	Again the two Belgian Amazons
Volvo Amazon Combi 220	With a couple of nice stickers
Volvo 1800 S	Volvo S70 and a Volvo 240 Polar Estate
Nice Volvo classic cars in the snow	Volvo 244 and 245 in white
We’ll be back next year!	My Volvo 244 GL, Mark’s XC90 and Scandcar’s 245 DL

Many thanks to Mark, John, Harwin and Scandcar for organizing this fantastic event! And of course a big thank you to Mike for navigating so well!

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