1962 Volvo Amazon 221 Estate - updated 21.10.

I have been reading this forum for while, and now I think I should share to you one of my many classic car projects.

I had Volvo Amazon Sedan 1969, but I wanted estate version because it's quite rare nowadays (only 61799 cars made in 62-69).
And only 1399 cars were made in 1962. my car has body number 1161. -62 was also only year when estate was called "Volvo 221".
Car has B18 engine and M40 gearbox.

I bought this car in february 2009 from guy from local Volvo-forum here in finland. I paid 230 euros for it. At time of purchase car did run, but had no brakes or clutch.
It had many modifications made by past owners.
Example: New wirings (all wires same color), home made interior (floormats,doorcarts, seats).
Car has lots of rust, witch you can see from pictures to below.

Pictures from March 09:

outside:


enginebay:


interior:


front fenders, etc.:


wiring:


rust pics:








bought the NOS Volvo 221 emblem to front fender from swedish ebay (tradera.se):



The car stood untouched until september 2009, when is started rip the interior out.

The floormats were soaked with water,
even thou they did not had any water that summer from outside of car:



and soaked floormats equals lots of rust: