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Irv Gordon aims for 3 million miles in his Volvo P1800

1966 Volvo P1800
American Irv Gordon – driver of the highest mileage vehicle on the road, a 1966 Volvo P1800 – has just turned 70. No he aims to reach an unmatchable record sometime in the next three years.
The two-seater sports coupe P1800 was presented at the auto show in Brussels 1960. Production started one year later, so 2011 the P1800 celebrates its 50 year anniversary. Almost 46,000 units of the famous Swedish sailor Pelle Petterson designed model were produced in various versions until production finished in 1973.
One of the P1800 icons is the British actor Roger Moore, who drove the car in the TV series “The Saint”. Another famous P1800 driver is the American (more…)