Volvo PV36 Carioca (1935)
Manufacturer : Volvo
Productions : 1935
Source : netcarshow.com
The Volvo PV36 which arrived in the spring of 1935 bore, however, no traces of the painter’s hand. This car was one man’s work and that man was Ivan Örnberg, a headstrong and versatile engineer who came to Volvo in 1931 from the Hupp Motor Co in Detroit, makers of Hupmobile. Without the interference of either Assar Gabrielsson or Gustaf Larson, the usually very engaged and interested founders of Volvo, Örnberg ran the PV36 project from start to finish. Almost. He died suddenly in the late summer of 1936 when the car was just little more than a year.