Volvo Enthusiasts Club

The Volvo Enthusiasts Club - The 'Authorised', 'Official' and 'Original' Premier Classic Volvo Club'

The Volvo Enthusiasts Club was founded in 1989 by our current Hon. President & Director Kevin Price, the internationally recognised authority on the Volvo P1800 and has been in continuous operation for over 35 years. It was and still is the ONLY Volvo Club in the UK specifically for ALL out of production and Classic Volvos including, Cars, Truck/Bus & Coach, Ex Public Service & Military and other Volvo Engined vehicles.

The Club has Technical Co-Ordinators for each of the Volvo Vehicles covered, who help members with Technical queries and hard to find parts. It also has a large Volvo Technical Libary and stock of Volvo Special Tools which will be available for Club Members to loan through the Club's 'Volvo Special Tool Loan Scheme'

The Club is also registered with DVLA for ALL V765 Applications and help obtaining Age Related and original Registrations. We also provide Members with Insurance Valuations for their vehicles, approved by major Classic Insurance providers.

The Club produces a quarterly full colour Club Magazine and has an all new Website at www.volvoenthusiastsclub.co.uk or www.classicvolvos.com which has a Members Area featuring 'Buyers Guides, Workshop/Parts Manual  etc plus Show - Members Discount  codes for purchase of tickets etc.

The Club also has 3 Facebook Pages - Volvo Classics - Volvo Enthusiasts Club and Volvo Enthusiasts Club UK

The Volvo Enthusiasts Club has Regional Club Representatives in the UK and also Overseas Representatives in many countries around the world, who are all Volvo enthusiasts and points of contact.

The Club organises events throughout the year for Members, including a National Gathering in June each year plus also produces displays at major and local Classic Vehicle Shows. For more information on the Volvo Enthusiasts Club please visit our all new Club Website at www,volvoenthusiastsclub.co.uk or www,classicvolvos.com or if you prefer email: kevinprice.vec@btinternet.com

Our Display:

Our display at this years Practical Classics Car & Restoration Show celebrates our 35th Birthday of continuous operation as the UK's 'Original and Premier' Classic and Out of Production Volvo Club.

To celebrate this milestone anniverseray, we will be exhibiting a range of Club Members vehicles, which include a Million Mile  Volvo 245, which also celebrates the models 50th Birthday - Volvo most successful production model, selling 2.4 Million Units belween 1974 and 1993. The Model is affectionately know as the 'Volvo Brick'

Our Club caters for ALL Volvo built vehicles and we are pleased to be able to display a Award winning Volvo F88 Truck, which has been recently been fully restored by the owner and also to compliment this another  'Barnfind' F88 which has been recently purchased for full restoration.

To compliment the trucks and the Volvo 245 and to show vehicles not only built in Volvo's Home, Sweden, we will also be exhibiting a Volvo 480  Celebration. One of the 480 individul numbered cars built to celebrate the end of production of Volvo's first Front Wheel Drive Volvo in 1995, which were built in the Volvo Plant in Bourne, Holland.

To Celebrate Volvo UK connection we will also have a Volvo 1800S, made famous by Roger Moore in TV's The Saint, which was produced at the Elstree Studios at Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. Bodyshells for the Volvo 1800 being built between 1961 and 1969 by Pressed Steel Ltd at their Linwood Plant, near Glasgow and hence Volvo's Scottish connection. Initial production, 6000 units were built by Jensen Motots of West Bromwich, England before production was transferred to Sweden in 1963.

Finally we will exhibit our 'Barn Find' Volvo - A Volvo-Itera 'Plastic Bike, designed by Volvo in 1970's and built of recycled plastic

We look forward greeting you onto our display at this years Show, another milestone, as we have exhibited at every Practical Classics Show, being intitally chosen as the 'Premier' Volvo Club, 

More Information please contact Kevin Price at kevinprice.vec@btinternet.com