{"id":2627,"date":"2014-02-06T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T17:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredspics1.wordpress.com\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2019-09-11T18:09:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T18:09:29","slug":"1963-volvo-544-with-b-18-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/?p=2627","title":{"rendered":"1963 Volvo 544 with B-18 Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click on the picture to<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> Z O O M<\/span> in.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pinball2k.net\/FZ18\/zoomr3.htm?jpg=1963 Volvo 544--5157.jpg=amc-gremlin-3510.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/pinball2k.net\/cars\/small\/1963 Volvo 544--5157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"228\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This car is in exceptional shape. I assume it has been restored but you never really know when you photograph it on the street. The year is a real guess. In fact, Volvo introduced the 544 with the B-18 engine in 1961 and ran with it until 1966. 1963 is in the middle of that timespan.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough I found two 544s within the same month. They were both immaculate. The one I chose to display had all of the body tags in place ( 544, B-18, Sport) so it made sense to show this one.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the picture to<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> Z O O M<\/span> in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pinball2k.net\/FZ18\/zoomr3.htm?jpg=1963 Volvo 544--.jpg=amc-gremlin-3510.html\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/pinball2k.net\/cars\/small\/1963 Volvo 544--.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/pinball2k.net\/FZ18\/zoomr3.htm?jpg=1963 Volvo 544--5149.jpg=amc-gremlin-3510.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\" src=\"http:\/\/pinball2k.net\/cars\/small\/1963 Volvo 544--5149.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"147\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/pinball2k.net\/FZ18\/zoomr3.htm?jpg=1963 Volvo 544--5147.jpg=amc-gremlin-3510.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/pinball2k.net\/cars\/small\/1963 Volvo 544--5147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"304\"><\/a><a style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/pinball2k.net\/FZ18\/zoomr3.htm?jpg=1963 Volvo 544--5152.jpg=amc-gremlin-3510.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/pinball2k.net\/cars\/small\/1963 Volvo 544--5152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"303\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click on the picture to<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> Z O O M<\/span> in.<\/p>\n<p>To me, this car has a resemblance to the 1946 Ford, at least from the back. This video builds on this premise.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">You Tube Video<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CmE8t6Gt-V8\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">1946 Ford<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinball2k.net\/FZ18\/zoomr3.htm?jpg=1946FordP1010825.jpg=amc-gremlin-3512.html\"><img src=\"http:\/\/pinball2k.net\/cars\/1946FordP1010825.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There were several sites that I found interesting related to this particular Volvo. One listed it as one of the unsafest interiors while another championed the reliability of the B-18 engine. Also, this one site heralds the quasi cult following of these early Volvos.Have a look at this site for general information on the Volvo 544.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/petrolicious.com\/articles\/second-owner-bought-this-1962-volvo-544-b-18-sport-49-years-ago\">Click Here for more information.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Fred Winograd copyright 2009, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on the picture to Z O O M in. This car is in exceptional shape. I assume it has been restored but you never really know when you photograph it on the street. The year is a real guess. In fact, Volvo introduced the 544 with the B-18 engine in 1961 and ran with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/?p=2627\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;1963 Volvo 544 with B-18 Engine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,49],"tags":[85,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2759,"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}