In October 2019, Jorge Eduardo Muñoz rode his BMW motorcycle through the night from Aguascalientes City, Mexico south to Oaxaca to deliver a steering box for a disabled 1965 Volvo 122S. Just hours before, Chris and Jeff Mason had crashed their race-prepped Swedish sedan during qualifying for La Carrera Panamericana—a modern revival of the legendary sports car race across Mexico that ran in the early 1950s. A frantic search for a replacement box turned up just one; it was in a rusted Volvo at a BMW restorer’s salvage yard … 10 hours away.
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I owned a Volvo 122S new in 1996 for 3 years. Put on 1in wider 5.5" Ford wheels Abarth exhaust. It cornered really well for the time (Previous car a Mini Cooper S-baby read bigger car.