Photo: Peter
Id: mini 409
Make: Norev Collection 1997
Scale: 1: 43

During the nineties Norev released a reedition of their most successful miniatures of the sixties. Finally in the year 1997 the reedited Volvo 1800 S was finished.

The manufacturer used the same old matrices for the chassis, for the bottom plate, for the windows and for the interior but the finishing was much better now.

The plastic chassis is nicely painted wearing a lot of very detailed features like headlights showing chrome rings, silver painted indicators, front and rear emblems, a nice "S"-sticker for Sweden, red painted rear lights and better chromed bumpers and frontgrille. The most important improvement are the wheels.

The new Norev Volvo rolls on very original looking lightgrey wheels with holes and chromed hubcaps and black rubber tyres. The inscription of the rough black bottom plates is the same as on the early Norevs, but a small 1997 is added instead of the No.44 near the front screw. Norev now used screws instead of rivets to connect chassis and bottom. This miniature portrays exactly the Volvo 1800 S of the years '65 and '66 and has been produced in the colours creamwhite with ST1 on the number plates, in gold and a small edition of 299 miniatures in red for the Swedish Volvo 1800 club.

The clear plastic boxes have a wooden dispatch box design inside with the information: les miniatures de Norev, echelle 1/43, des autos à collectionner et un golden sticker shows: Volvo P 1800 S Année 1965.

In the year 2004 came another even more improved edition.

Now the Volvos took place in bigger boxes. Outside white with silver text Norev la miniature "Haute Fidélité", showing the inner clear plastic boxes with dark plates and walls and completed with a mirror in an edge inside, so that the car can be regarded from all sides.

The red or cream white produced Volvos additional now have silver painted side trims with the upward sweep, rear light trim rings and Volvo letters on the rear side, air intakes, windscreen washers and wipers, door and boot handles and window trims too. The interiors are two coloured now showing black dashboards and steering wheels. A very nice collectors edition

Peter 12/02/06.

 

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