• 1976 343 for sale in France

Posted: **10 Jul 2007 12:37 pm**

Has anyone noticed this?
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... 0150610656

OK, I know it's in France, and the steering wheel's on the wrong side for most of you but I don't think I've EVER seen a '76 Mk1 for sale anywhere. AFAIK Volvo NL only made 5000 or so of them in that year.

The pictures aren't great but it looks like the DAF-style seats & wheel caps are still on it ...

Tom

Posted: **13 Jul 2007 06:40 pm**

If i only had the money...

Posted: **16 Jul 2007 01:11 pm**

If I won the lottery, I'd start my 300 collection with one of these - just because it was one of the first - more DAF than Volvo.

However, as much as I like the exterior (lots of chrome, no rubbing strips, small wheel trims) I'm not too sure about the brown dashboard:

Perhaps it looked better in the brochure, but I think I prefer the black Volvo 240-style dash fitted to the later cars ...

Tom

Posted: **16 Jul 2007 01:16 pm**

Hmm, that dash in black and specially that steering wheel looks really nice to my eyes

Looks quite bit like some version of R5 dash which I think was quite nice too.

Specially those instrument colors are nice, imo.

Posted: **16 Jul 2007 01:22 pm**

Yeah, I like the orange needles too ...

Here are some brochure pics of the interior, it looks nicer there than in the Ebay ad ...

http://home.datacomm.ch/volvofantom/343-77-s6.jpg
http://home.datacomm.ch/volvofantom/343-77-s8.jpg

Tom

Posted: **17 Jul 2007 09:05 pm**

Hello everyone

This car reminds me of a Renault 4 which I owned for a while It was LHD as well and I found it fun to drive in U K Similar fascia that is for sure Wasn't this the time of that Peugeot Volvo Renault gettogether.
Reminds me had better look after my cars here first

cheers mickt