{"id":645,"date":"2020-09-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/volvo-p1800-cyan-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-10T07:56:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T07:56:05","slug":"volvo-p1800-cyan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/volvo-p1800-cyan-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Volvo P1800 Cyan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sporty coup\u00e9s from Volvo had a long tradition. The P1800, which enriched the market from 1961 onwards, achieved particular fame. The first examples were built to order for Jensen in the UK, with the body-in-white coming from Pressed Steel. Two years later Volvo moved production to Sweden because the quality of the vehicles didn’t meet the factory standards. The bodyshells were supplied by Pressed Steel until 1969. It isn’t known whether the series detective Simon Templar, played by Roger Moore, drove a P1800 for this reason. By 1972, 39,407 units rolled off the assembly line. Between 1971 and 1973 another 8,077 Volvo P1800 ES with a rear end in the style of a shooting brake, affectionally called ‘Snow White’s coffin’ by fans, were added. Both body versions are very popular at classic car meetings in Europe.

Now Cyan Racing comes into play. This Swedish racing team was once known as Polestar, before the department for performance conversions of production cars was taken over by Volvo. Polestar won the WTCC (World Touring Car Championship) title in 2017 with the S60. Cyan then switched to the new Chinese sister brand Lynk & Co., which won the WTCR championship in 2019. To commemorate the successes with Volvo and at the same time to show what could have become of the P1800 if it had been further developed into a race car, an intensive development and test program was carried out in the past months. Based on a completely original Volvo P1800, a deliberately analog vehicle was created. “Obviously we could have built an electric Volvo P1800 filled with all the latest technology, comfort and luxury. But that was not what we wanted,” says company boss and founder Christian Dahl. “Amid this paradigm shift we decided to slow down time and freeze a part of it in our own time capsule. To take the best from the golden sixties and combine it with our capabilities of today, keeping a pure yet refined driving experience.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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