Volvo 245 - as practical as an Ikea bookshelf and fully practical with folded back seats, it can even hold a gigantic 2150 litres! With 188 cm loading length and 136 width you can easily spend 1-2 nights for two for a weekend trip. Because of this high popularity the 245 estate car became more and more a lifestyle station wagon and due to high demand it was even built 10 years longer than all other Volvo 240 models. This resulted in a number of 959,151 station wagons.
The 240 series models were also used quite a lot in motorsports such as
German Touring Car Championship DTM
1988, Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado, USA
European Touring Car Championship (ETCC)
I have been practicing vintage car photography for more than 35 years and here I mainly photograph normal everyday vehicles which were still on the road en masse over 30 years ago. But also cars with extraordinary, beautiful design. From time to time I take pictures of cars, .. Read more…