Said it has ~40,000 original miles. I knew some of you like these pretty well, so i figured i'd share it with ya. its a '72 P1800 E i believe it is Fuel Injected also. I've only seen a few in person and this one is by far the cleanest I've ever seen!
I'd have loved to find that car. It's even in God's color!
In reply to dansxr2:
You have a cool/interesting neighbor!!!
Granted, my nextdoor neighbor raced in SCCA GT1 in the 80s in a flared, 300hp 240z (which is long-gone).
Anyway, boy, do those panasports look good on that car. +1 on the awesome color, too.
.. looks like a Champion 400 forge blower in the foreground of pic #1, and a C-10 PU, sounds like a cool guy w/ neat toys
The father of an old girlfriend had a yellow 72 that I wanted for a very long time. He was the original owner and refused to part with it, even after the driver's window got broken (no garage) and the interior was destroyed by the weather.
He never liked me.
Good lord that's hot!
Gah!!!! It's not a P1800... it's an 1800E...
P1800 - first 6000 cars with Jenson produced bodies. 1.8L 4 with twin SU's
1800S - next 30K or so cars, all Swedish (they didn't care for British build quality). Most have 1.8L engines. Later ones had 2.0L. Most of these have twin Z-S carbs. HP varied, but roughly 118.
1800E - '70 thru '72, B20 with Bosch D-Jetronic EFI. '70/71 had the most powerful engines. higher compression and 130 hp. The compression dropped considerably for 72. The "lovely" BW30 automatic became available due to a larger tunnel.
1800ES - '72 & '73, 2-dr wagon versions of the E (we have 2 of these).
Otherwise, very nice. The yahoo groups 1800list will become his new best friend. While a bit old fashioned and archaic to use, it's still the best place to go for 1800 information.
Ian F wrote: Gah!!!! It's not a P1800... it's an 1800E... P1800 - first 6000 cars with Jenson produced bodies. 1.8L 4 with twin SU's 1800S - next 30K or so cars, all Swedish (they didn't care for British build quality). Most have 1.8L engines. Later ones had 2.0L. Most of these have twin Z-S carbs. HP varied, but roughly 118. 1800E - '70 thru '72, B20 with Bosch D-Jetronic EFI. '70/71 had the most powerful engines. higher compression and 130 hp. The compression dropped considerably for 72. The "lovely" BW30 automatic became available due to a larger tunnel. 1800ES - '72 & '73, 2-dr wagon versions of the E (we have 2 of these). Otherwise, very nice. The yahoo groups 1800list will become his new best friend. While a bit old fashioned and archaic to use, it's still the best place to go for 1800 information.
Gosh, you were so darn close to perfect...The 1800S generally had 1 3/4" SU HS carbs until the end of 68, when they got ZS 175's and B20's. All the other models then went to SU HIF's in 72 or so, but by that time all the 1800's were E's.
Yeah... The SU to ZS switch was something I should have looked up. We (and most of our friends - all in fact) have B20 D-Jet cars, so I know those best.
It's the name thing that can set me off... "P1800" only refers to the first 6000 Jensen cars. The other 40-odd thousand cars built didn't get the "P" moniker... I literally screamed when Wayne Carini had an ES on his show last year... He should freakin' know better..
In reply to Ian F: love these! have you seen this build? http://www.pro-touring.com/showthread.php?64658-PROJECT-CHANGLING..-1966-Volvo-P1800-Toyota-Supra-build
Raze wrote:
+1
I posted ~this~ a while back:
I was at the VRG Watkins Glen event last month and the VSA (Volvo Sports Association) joined us. Lots of neat 1800 cars (it's the 50th anniversry of the original Jensen cars). See photos below. The yellow #34 car is owned by Jere Stahl from Stahl Headers.
We bought a new house not long ago and one of my neighbours has a white P1800. He waves at me as he drives by (I have four British cars in my garage so he's probably figured out I'm a car weirdo), but we haven't talked yet.
In the early 70s, I owned a P1800 that had been converted to Ford 289 V8 and 4 speed. I bought it cheap, beat on it for a year and sold it cheap. I found out later that it was a rare factory conversion for Volvo Corporate (in Englewood Cliff, NJ) by Holman-Moody. Part of a trail run of about 15 cars to gauge interest. That was one that got away. 
you know I hate how cars today are all about aero instead of style, the beauty is fading, and it's sad to see every time I see a car like this...
i feel like volvo needs to join the club and make a new "retro" coupe inspired by the 1800's..
717 looks perfect on torque thrusts..
It's amazing how much this stretched Volvo (to fit a Vette chassis) looks like a 70's Camaro
Close, but no cigar.
Dang the rear end looks fabulous without the fins.
Looks almost British.
I am a big fan of the fin.
The early models are British.
With the fin in place it looks almost British...
asifnyc wrote: In reply to Ian F: love these! have you seen this build? http://www.pro-touring.com/showthread.php?64658-PROJECT-CHANGLING..-1966-Volvo-P1800-Toyota-Supra-build
Ah yes... Robert's car... There has been quite a bit of discussions about his work on the list (who in general are more traditionalists). Personally, I've asked him a few questions about the design that have gone unanswered which make me feel this car will be much more "show" than go.
I don't know how you can say that with an LS1 and Mustang II suspension.
hawt
carguy123 wrote: I don't know how you can say that with an LS1 and Mustang II suspension.
I just haven't been impressed with engineering answers given thus far.
It's a bunch of things. Power was never in doubt.
Raze wrote: you know I hate how cars today are all about aero instead of style, the beauty is fading, and it's sad to see every time I see a car like this...
back in the old days they designed them on drafting boards....stood back and wanted it to look right.
today it is all gas mileage and wind tunnels. I was joking our future is smart cars and prius's.
Hmmmm, I had a Jensen built 1964 1800S... so not all the S cars were built in Sweden.
Hp on the S versions was 108... the early 2 liter efi cars were 120, but the "high performance" B18 was the B18B using twin SU-HS6 carbs, along with the twin downpipe manifold. it was over 10 to 1 CP
Current "dream" is to put a 200hp 2 liter twincam and 6 speed in one 
E_AT_me wrote: i feel like volvo needs to join the club and make a new "retro" coupe inspired by the 1800's.. 717 looks perfect on torque thrusts..
Plus eleventy billion on the TorqThrusts.
According to 'A History of Jensen', Jensen and Volvo fought back and forth on the whole body production thing and there was some overlap of the two assembly lines, so for a while the bodies were being produced in two different places at the same time. Volvo claimed that was because the bodies weren't being built correctly and Jensen proved that it was due to problems with the panel suppliers. Volvo finally bought out the Jensen contract and moved all the production to Sweden. Funny thing: Volvo continued to buy the panels from the same British suppliers Jensen used.
This was circulating a while back, rumor was Volvo might actually produce something similar. But with the way their sales were/are, it won't happen anytime soon. 
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