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I just got these from a a man in Chicago, USA, whose uncle worked for Volvo US in the 1960s. Great condition (no boxes)!
There might have been a few to test in the 1960s, but they really started in the 1970s with the F86 and F613. I don’t remember ever seeing any of these on the road, though.
Car sales started with the PV444 in 1955 (26 cars sold!), but I don’t think I have ever seen one in the US. I have seen Amazons (rarely) and a few P1800s over the years here.
Nice trucks….
When you watch movies, you’ll see a 544 some times, and some 140 series, but most of them are 240 series in US movies. I can not find anything that indicates that Volvo long nose Trucks were sold in US. But I saw somewhere that Volvo trucks were the only foreign lorries that were represented in the US in the 1960s. Long nose titan was in production 1951-73, so it would not be completely unlikely in the US, but rarely. One might say Volvo since 1980 took a revival in that direction. Under the Volvo Truck section, are, or have been brands such as: White, Autocar, Western Star, Mack and they also own General Motor’s Heavy Vehicle section. And perhaps it’s a little surprising that Ford otherwise made engines for the big Volvo trucks. Volvo later went to Perkins, but ended up owning the GM Truck section.
found this interesting page
Good idea – movies! The imcdb (internet movie car data base) has lots of PV444s but almost all are Swedish movies. Here is one famous US movie on a US street!
https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_98935-Volvo-PV-444-LS-1958.html
and another:
https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_1007334-Volvo-PV-444-LS-1957.html
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