Volvo 345 Van spotted on Marktplaats.nl

[S10NPH]

Click below to see - this must be a bit of a rare beast!

http://auto.marktplaats.nl/bestelauto-s ... otoGallery

[trabitom99]

Very rare. Check out the cost-cutting steering wheel from base model Mk1s.

Cheers

Tom

[Speedy88]

At first I thought it was just a conversion but clearly it's all very purposeful. Has it ever seen the road though? Very clean

[volvosneverdie]

A 5 door van with side back car doors??????????
Think thats the 1st time Ive ever seen that on a "Van".

Cool as a penguins pecker.

[Hell Driver]

Never seen one before, not even for sale! Only in old sales pictures.

[Chris_C]

Yup, first I've ever seen outside of brochures too.

Who is buying it then?!

[trabitom99]

Yup, first I've ever seen outside of brochures too.

I think I've seen the same car for sale on Marktplaats before, but for a much higher price. Very unusual for a van to be in such a good condition!

So impractical though, with the high boot lip No wonder it didn't really set the van-world on fire.

Cheers

Tom

[MCHUDD]

Hi all.
Can't be two many L modols in that condition left.
With such low millage as well.
Should be in a museum.
Cheers Mark.

[S10NPH]

There's a near-identical discussion on this forum from a few years ago, was that the same Van do you remember Tom? http://www.volvo300mania.com/forum-uk/v ... hp?p=83518

[SteveP]

Very rare! What a crap van the 300 would make though, rear doors that don't open very far and a really high loading lip. No surprise as to why they're rare...!

[trabitom99]

There's a near-identical discussion on this forum from a few years ago, was that the same Van do you remember Tom? http://www.volvo300mania.com/forum-uk/v ... hp?p=83518

Ha ha, yes that's likely

Cheers

Tom

[bogbasic]

I thought they were all vans (given the number of sheds, trees and tables I've carried in mine)

[volvodspec]

in Holland you were able to have a lower road tax if you removed the rear bench, this is a relatively easy way to build a car that accomodates these demands for such a tax-discount. it did sell quite well back in the days, but company cars tend to wear out sooner so not much of them left

[Hell Driver]

I think we would have seen more here if the van version had been made of the estate prototype (which never made it into production), however that rear lip was never going to help either version. I expect the lip is to add strength in an accident. Something that modern cars now don't need now to advances in stengthening in other ways (bonded windows and stronger steel maybe?)