On February 12 Scandcar (which sells a lot of new Volvo parts for classic Volvos) organized the Volvo Winter Trial in the southern part of The Netherlands and a small part in Belgium. Unlike many other Volvo Classic-events there was no limit in ages of the car or type of the Volvo. And that’s a very good thing! It’s much more fun when every Volvo is allowed to contribute and also delivers much more nice photos.
Thanks to my navigator (and brother-in-law) Mike we finished second in the Winter Trial and won a nice service package (which includes oil, oil filter, working gloves, brake fluid and a oil collector). Mike doesn’t own a Volvo yet (he drives a ’85 Mercedes-Benz 190) but after this Volvo event he’s sure he will buy a Volvo one of these days.
Here are the pictures I took of this Volvo rally. Enjoy!
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 A very nice Volvo Amazon 121 early type |  ’51 Volvo PV 444 B-series with a “Cuckoo” fixlight (indicators) on the roof |
 Installing the rally shield |  All types of Volvo are welcome |
 Inside Scandcar |  Nice 240s and 740s |
 |  The winner of last year: the Volvo 480 of Tune Nails |
 Volvo PV 544 C-series in rally-trim |  Close parking |
 The Saint |  A yellow ’86 Volvo 240 and a ’67 black metallic (resprayed) Volvo Amazon 131 |
 Volvo 240 Van with nice front spoiler |  Various Volvo classic cars |
 Volvo 240 Turbo in excellent condition |  A very nice Volvo Polar and my 244 |
 A nice black Volvo 245 with bignose |  A ’84 Volvo 240 DL with Draco wheels |
 Volvo 144 with some nice mods | |
 Lunch time at the red building in the background |  And the other side of the cars |
 The sign of the plague cemetery |  Pestkerkhof Alphen, a cemetery where people who died due the plague were buried, far away from the town |
 History of the plague cemetery |  Memorial |
 The plague cemetery can be found in Alphen (Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands) |  My Volvo 240 diesel |
 A nice small old road |  The other side |
 Why is navigator Mike so happy? |  Because of his new friend I guess…. |
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 |  Volvo 145 |
 Nice Amazon |  Very nice car |
 Nice colors! |  Again the former Volvo-dealer service car |
 A ’82 Volvo 240 GL |  Volvo 244 GL ’79 and a MY95 Volvo 480 ES |
 This Volvo 244 GL has a 740 front spoiler |  A very nice Volvo 245 Turbo |
 This Volvo 850 needs a car wash one day |  A green Volvo Amazon with Ravus whitewall wheel trims |
 One of the first Volvo 1800S cars, the first versions still had the old type “cowhorn”-bumpers |  Two nice Volvo Amazons |
 John and his ’77 Volvo 244 GL automatic |  Again the two Belgian Amazons |
 Volvo Amazon Combi 220 |  With a couple of nice stickers |
 Volvo 1800 S |  Volvo S70 and a Volvo 240 Polar Estate |
 Nice Volvo classic cars in the snow |  Volvo 244 and 245 in white |
 We’ll be back next year! |  My Volvo 244 GL, Mark’s XC90 and Scandcar’s 245 DL |
Many thanks to Mark, John, Harwin and Scandcar for organizing this fantastic event! And of course a big thank you to Mike for navigating so well!
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