Winter trial 2012
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…. |
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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!
© Volvotips 2012