According to Carryfast’s bestie, 3rd September 1967.
Late '67 would have been the era of Volvo 1 Series.
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I thought the Irish were going to trial it with heavy vehicles first. If that was successful light vehicles would follow.
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That’s when the 1 series came out '67 unless of course someone knows different.
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According to Wikipedia;
" Volvo Cars began manufacturing the Volvo 144 at Torslandaverken in the late summer of 1966[7] for the 1967 model year."
As Carryfast has so ably demonstrated, Wikipedia doesn’t always get it right.
I lean towards Robert’s date for Sweden’s changeover, as he can relate it to other significant milestones.
I’m afraid I was wrong! I was in what is now called year 11, not in the 6th form, when I had that Maths teacher, which would make it 1967 after all. The wiki data provides pretty compelling evidence that it was in fact in September 1967. It also provides press pictures with the exact time (at 5:00 AM) the change-over occurred. Sorry about that lads. And thank you SDU for your trust!
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I read somewhere that the changeover caused absolute chaos at the time not suprisingly
No worries mate, there’s only room for one knowitall, on the forum. 
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It would have done for the bus drivers, who suddenly found the door on the wrong side. 
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I never even thought of that .That’s the bus driver in you SDU. On the 1 series Volvos the last version of the 164 with the big bumpers are as rare as a sensible post from you know who. One on ebay just came up spares or repairs and they wamt £2000 .A 264 just came up completely restored to a high standard at £15000.That sounds alot but £2000 for a basket case and you would never get your money back
My grandson has a 264 (maybe my granddaughter) one has a 264 the other a 244, but anyway the grangson’s is something special. Fully optioned end of run. He and his dad have recently converted it from auto to manual. As we didn’t get the manual here there were no suitable flywheels. That model picked up the CPS from the flywheel, so they used an early flywheel and fabricated a reluctorring to work off the front of the harmonic balancer.
If Carryfast asked nicely, my son might knock up a brakeline for him.
Did you know White-Trux did a bit of Egypt for a while?
I used to drink occasionally with Micky White in his pub in Kent.
I think the auto was a 3 speed Borg Warner but i could be wrong.I personally prefer auto to manual but that’s just me. The V6 was a joint Peugoet Renault Volvo engine and wasn’t the best unless lubricated properly and with the correct oil.The one your granchildren have will be the 2.8 which Volvo produced later for the 264 then 760. If the engine does eventually give up see if he can get a 3.0 litre engine and box from a 960.I had one of them and it was probably the best of the cars i’ve owned
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That is a very old joke that I have told myself many times.
Regarding White Trux, when I was there although there were Yugo runs and I did hear of some going further east, the vast majority of our travels was to the port of Savona with cargo for Ghadaffi in Libya. Some containers, but in tilts as I don’t think he had trailers with twistlocks, and some as loose cargo. Come to think of it I think the first trip was to somewhere near Venice but the load shifted a bit and was sticking out the side of the tilt so I had to go via Ventimiglia to avoid the Blanc.
Early 2 Series had the ubiquitous BW 35, later replaced by an AisanWarner.
Just looking on ebay there’s a Holden Monaro V8 for sale 2007 what would that be worth down under?
White-Trux did a fair bit of Middle-East work in the '70s / '80s. They even did Saudi ‘internals’. Gordon Pierce did ‘internals’ with a White-Trux Merc 6x6 unit.
I was always told, maybe SDU can find some confirmation down there, that the issue with F/G89 in right hand drive was something to do with the airfilter and trunking, Volvo Australia had their own made to solve the problem. In the scheme of things not a big fix, but Sweden just weren’t interested, they probably considered that at 32tons gvw as we were then the F88 was quite sufficient, and there wouldn’t be the sales to justify the modifications. They were probably right about the sufficiency, but definitely wrong about an F89 not selling here.
I was told that the problem was the turbo and exhaust. But in truth I cannot say how accurate that is.
Any clue here?
If @spardo can remember that far back…was the footwell of the 89 different sizes on the left and right sides?
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I admit I don’t know if the footwells are different sizes on the car in my driveway! 
No idea, but I assume so, don’t know why it wouldn’t be, but our unit at least seemed to have a great deal of room on the right hand side but then it would look bigger with no seat there, wouldn’t it?