Volvo 240 wagons in movies?

How about "The World according to Garp" with Robin Williams.

The Maitland's drive a yellow wagon off a covered bridge in Beetlejuice.

RS

Hi "Procobob"

In "......Garp", that was a "humpback" sedan (Volvo PV544). It had to be in order to be equipped with the tall gear-shift lever (missing its knob) to put an eye out in that driveway smash-up. We won't go into the other injury....... ; but in some episodes of the British T/V detective series "A Touch Of Frost", Inspector Jack Frost drives a 240 wagon.

In another British T/V series "Waiting For God", the son drives a Volvo wagon, but it may be a 740/940 series. A year ago or so "Volvomagazine" (from "Volvo Cars of Canada") ran a contest along these lines. Sadly I never saw the final outcome.

Andy I.

Which makes it even more unbelievable than it already was that they actually died as a result of that accident!

I think that was a 740 wagon. In Good Neighbors, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington have a Volvo wagon.

There was a (very) brief USA TV situation comedy called "oops," in which the planet has been largely destroyed due to nuclear warfare. The post-nuclear winter hero of the show has survived the devastation because he was sitting in his 240 sedan at the time of the blast which destroyed everything around him.

-RL

Every John Irving movie features a Volvo. Garp has already been mentioned, with Robin Williams, in which the Volvo plays a grizzly part in a terrible accident. Another is the grown adult part of one of the main child characters in "Simon Burch", adapted from the book "A Prayer for Owen Meany". The adult part is played by Jim Carrey, and he drives a Volvo.

The Robert Redford character in "woodstein" (All the Presidents Men :) drives a 120 sedan, sky blue i think.

Probably, Henry Fonda, playing the old, stiff New Englander father to his daughter Jane, in "On Golden Pond", probably drove a volvo wagon.

In the Hugh Grant movie where he has trouble committing to others, and finds a catharsis with a somewhat wimpy young boy, shows a few frames with a Volvo

1800 parked on his street outside his flat.

Almost anytime a movie has a role with a suburban mother, you guessed it, look for a volvo wagon.

In Hunter Thompson's book, Fear and Loathing, he includes a few stream of consciousness descriptions of settling into the very comfortable seat in his

140, cruising the campaign trail, with a glass of Southern Comfort sloshing between his legs on the car seat.

The original "The Saint" series featured a 1800. When shooting the pilot, the director asked for a sporty Jaguar XKE, more or less to liken the role to James Bond with his famous Aston Martin. However, Jag Corp. did not have an extra XKE to loan him at that moment, so he grabbed the volvo instead, assuming that the pilot would not get picked up by the network. But, when it did, they had to keep the volvo throughout the series for continuity. I haven't seen this in a while, but I use to frequently see ads on ebay for early year 1800's with unsubstantiated claims that the car was the one used in the TV series (buyer beware :(.

The re-make movie of The Saint, with Val Kilmer, has a Volvo, 850 I think.

A catchy soft drink ad, Dr. Pepper I think, shows some famous salsa singers, like maybe Celia Cruz?, and a Volvo 444 or 544 sitting in the background. Gives the scene a somewhat Cuban flavor, where they have kept many old '50s cars running due to the trade embargo.

Some action thriller movie includes a seen with a huge explosion or a missile blast, I forget the unimportant details (like the movie name). Anyway, in the big bang scene, a projectile is caught on tape screaming down a freeway, or an airport runway, or a huge parking lot, at such a high speed that everything else in the foreground and the background of the film frames is a continuous blur. The other objects are mostly other cars and trucks. One of the objects looked familiar: black trim around the door window frames, and black outlined chrome trim "spears", those decorative chrome strips that run horizontally the length of the car on both sides about halfway up the door panel. I was watching this on a rented video, so I paused the tape, and in slow motion reversed the tape until i could clearly see a 240 being hurled through the frames at high speed.

I can't help myself, the Volvo body designs are so distinctive, I always see them in movies and TV. My wife has been tempted to ask me to be quiet so as to not disturb the other viewers. :)

Wow! That was detailed! But I'm only interested in 240 wagons. Too bad you can't remember the name of the movie with that one! But what an eye for Volvos you have!

That's pretty good -- thanks!

Wasn't there a movie where there is a crazy advertising exec that does some commercial that bombs that features a 740 or a 240- Dudley Moore was in it.To change things a bit- Colin Powell (US sec. state)at one point used to have volvos. Pat

That sounds like "Crazy People," where the "boxy but good" joke started.

You MIGHT include the Back to the Future movies. The Delorean used a bunch of Volvo parts (including, I believe, most of the drivetrain). The scene that comes to mind of course is the close-up of the speedometer as M.J.Fox tries to reach 85 mph. It's the speedometer from my '78 Volvo 264.

The DeLorean used a PRV V6 engine (peugeot-renault-volvo), but the transmission wasn't Volvo.

No, really, I'm only interested in whole 240 wagons that make appearances in movies (or TV for that matter). Thanks!

appearances in

Years ago, on a visit to my parents' home during some holiday, I remember catching part of a TV sitcom in which the short Canadian-born kid/star played a right-wing, suit-wearing, teenager with former hippy parents.

In any case, the kid went chasing after his girlfriend who had left town, either to go to college or a job, and the short kid went after her to tell her he loved her (or something like that) and there were some shots of the tail-end of a Volvo 245 (presumably belonging to his former hippy parents) getting onto an expressway cloverleaf, at night.

Although not a 240 wagon, I remember a "Nash Bridges" episode in which some Bad Girl stole Cheech Marin's character "Joe Domingues" wife's V70 wagon and someone exclaimed something like "It' a Volvo! Why would anyone want to steal a Volvo???!!" and to add insult to injury, I seem to recall the Volvo wagon being blown up .

And speaking of P1800's, Micheal Steadman (sp?), on the "thirtysomething" series drove one.

Great -- thanks! The show was "Family Ties" and the short Canadian was MIchael J. Fox. Makes perfect sense they'd drive a 240 wagon. Thanks!

That's a fine image to me, don't steal *my* Volvo.

Don't blow it up either. :)

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C70 I think....but great post!

At one point, and perhaps again, 'till 08 when no matter who wins (I hope he has a fitting position in our government again) (and I am a liberal Democrat!) Powell restored old Volvos as a hobby.