my '65 122s wagon

and found some damage that was hiding behind some slabs of bondo on the back under the right side tail light..

Wow man great car! Keep posting pics while you're doing the work, I love it.

John

im helping out where i can, but im not very experienced in bodywork.. im letting our guy with 20+ years experience handle it.. im planning to get another project, 2dr 123gt? or any 122s 2dr, or 4dr, still havent decided, and will be doing all the bodywork on that, and want to spray it myself too..

i'll be going to school for body & paint soon so i know the "right" ways to do things.. i'll be taking more pics as progress goes..

but.. lets see..



french headlights & tail lights?

yes or no? im leaning alot towards doing it.. but dont know the propper way to do it yet.. i've read a couple how-to's, but want to find loopholes to creating new buckets for the headlights..

and that color of the scion, on the wagon.. maybe i'll see if i can get it photoshopped..

or should i go for my old off-white color i had?

What does frenching the lights mean? I noticed another guy restoring a 122 talking about the same thing.

Here's a great white-ish color, and a freaking amazing amazon. Scroll down a bit for the Volvo Amazon -67 section:
http://www.hocky.se/site/index_hocky.asp

go for the off-white (cream-ish) colour that 740 got

http://www.garaget.org/archive/8206/67128/large_67128-611954.jpg

looks like that, colour code 603

The Aspirator said:

What does frenching the lights mean? I noticed another guy restoring a 122 talking about the same thing.

Here's a great white-ish color, and a freaking amazing amazon. Scroll down a bit for the Volvo Amazon -67 section:
http://www.hocky.se/site/index_hocky.asp

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that's a hell of a car..


but here's what frenched headlights look like..


vs stock




there are other methods of doing this, leave the headlight where it is, make a new bucket for it to be installed from the back i think, and extend the headlight housings on the fender.. or, sinking the headlights in, and shape the opening for the headlight..

Nice work!

recap - more details & pictures

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here was one of the very first pictures of this wagon.. needing bodywork, paint, and alot of lovin..

taken - July 2007



here it is after a couple weeks of driving it, cleaning it up a bit, some overhaul by aerosol.. some cleaning up of some surface rust spots.. cleaning up the rims, getting some hub caps for it.. cleaned up the grill, new fender mounted mirrors, new antenna, and cut the springs a coil & a coil and a half..

taken - August or something.. 2007









halloween spirit, made the side stickers out of construction paper.. bought the top revolving lights, and mounted speakers in the grill to play the ghostbusters theme all night long. drove all around alameda, and caused a scene everwhere we went.. that + the HID's at night were funnnnn..

taken - Halloween





here i got a set of wheels from an older crown vic LTD, cleaned them up alot, painted the rims a darker shade of red i had laying around at the shop, and cleaned the thin white wall on the tires.. new euro headlamp housings, and 6.5k HID's. tried cleaning up the trim and fix some dents on them.. then reinstalled them along with the roof rack.. and girlfriend bought me my new volvo dash for my birthday.. then cleaned up and painted some interior panels the same color as the exterior, just alot more clear coat on it.









out living in long beach now, and work on the wagon is getting down in the body..

all the rust is cut out, the bottom of each fender, top of car where the roof rack was mounted, weld shut the chrome molding holes, welded the front of the fenders and grill together to flush the front, and welded together a sheet of steel to the headlamp rings to give it a french look.. every dent is pulled, and on the passenger side bottom rocker panel, was a 1/2" deep dent, that stretched from the front that needed repair at the fender, all the way down right next to the rear wheel well.

and everything is cleaned up, and sanded down, about to go over it again because of a couple small dents that are still showing..

almost to paint.. more block sanding, primer, block sand, primer, then it'll be ready for paint..

Looking good! Always nice to see a amazon combi get restored! woohoo

Can't wait to see your wagon in person one of these days--let me know when its out of the shop and we'll meet up for a drive or something. There's this other 122 wagon I've seen at some previous Socal meets, but not within the last year or so. Don't know who owns it, but you'd like it:

Caliwagon said:

Can't wait to see your wagon in person one of these days--let me know when its out of the shop and we'll meet up for a drive or something. There's this other 122 wagon I've seen at some previous Socal meets, but not within the last year or so.

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How did you miss this at the last Bozzani show?

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those wheels are the coolest! any idea what they are called?

don hodgdon said:

How did you miss this at the last Bozzani show?

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Don, I definitely saw the red and green ones at Bozzani, but I was talking about not having seen that slammed cream one with the 17" wheels.

BTW, although those wheels look like twisted torq thrusts, I believe they're the "Hustler" from Billet Specialties, like the ones seen here: http://www.billetspecialties.com/item.asp?cid=16&scid=1&pid=578

The 122 wagon is my all time favorite volvo. There was a sick one in I think Euro Tuner magazine a couple months ago. Two door conversion with lexan floor in the back. Done up by some crazy Swedes. Check it out. Badest 122 I've ever seen.

Here's a link to the article and photo's. Definitely worth your time. You guys are going to love this.

http://www.eurotuner.com/featuredvehicles/eurp_0711_1969_volvo_122_amazon/index.html

^lol, super repost...its the SEMA 122 with the turbo whiteblock in it. Still a pretty cool car, i think some people here had a problem with its build quality for some reason...

Woops...must have missed the original posting.