History

This 1972 Volvo 1800ES is most likely a Swedish sold car. It was imported to Norway in September 1996 by Erik Øyno who bought the car from a certain Staffan Mood in Norberg. He had been the owner of the car since October 1985, and the owner before that (name unknown to me) owned the car for about 10 years. Earlier history is not known. The car had Swedish plates EXK 691 as shown in the pictures to the left.

Erik cleared the car through the Norwegian customs in Oslo on Sept 6, 1996 at a cost of NOK 22.700, or roughly USD 3.000. Cars in Norway are expensive, and at that time it was less than 30 years old hence import duties had to be paid. He thereafter registered the car and got the plates DH 85073 which it still bears.

The funny thing which I discovered when I later bought the car from Erik, is that we shared precisely the same long lasting relation to the 1800 in general and particularly the ES. To realize his old dream he chose the cumbersome way of importing it by himself. Contrary to me, Erik was not too experienced in working on cars and he therefore spent quite some money on having professionals doing maintenance and upgrades over the years he owned and used the car. He told me for example that he had been using a retired Volvo mechanic to work on the injection and engine adjustments with some success. This is well documented with invoices and inspection reports going back to the two previous owners.