[Ray Bell]

In Australia there was a bit of action. When Series Production racing came in seriously in the mid to late sixties, a few Volvos started running.

The driver who showed the best talent was David Seldon, but other cars (all 122s) were around. The annual Bathurst race saw one on the front row of the grid in 1965, the drivers being the veteran Bill Ford (usually the Clerk of Course at Bathurst) and Des west, while Grahame Ward (one who ran regularly for a short time) shared his car with former Lago Talbot driver Barry Collerson.

There were other one-offs, for instance David McKay and Bill Brown shared a P1800 in the 12-hour race at Surfers Paradise in 1966, winning their class as David's Ferrari scored the outright victory in the race.

David also ran a 242 coupe (is that the right designation?) during the late seventies at Bathurst, the car sponsored by Goodrich and running on radials in a race which was by then seeing all cars on slicks.

In the mid-eighties, of course, there was a Volvo Dealer team running turbocharged cars in the Australian Touring Car Championship and winning a few races. This came about after Robbie Francevic brought the car he was running in NZ over for a sortie...

Team organisation fell on Bob Atkin, formerly the Scuderia Veloce man, and John Bowe drove the other car when they had two. These were similar to the cars they ran in European title races, which, according to Peter Brock, looked like 'Hillman Hunters with railway sleepers bolted onto their bumpers.'