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Well, here’s something you don’t see every day. Indeed, have you ever seen a Volvo 780 Bertone Coupe, outside of a magazine or an Internet? I think I may have, but in the same way I think I may have seen a ghost in the WWII tunnels below Dover Castle. Was the distant figure dressed in an airman’s uniform that appeared to walk through a shut door at the end of a long corridor just a figment of my overactive imagination? Probably.
I believe Wilsgaard captured some of the MkIV’s hideousness, but where the Continental, like Las Vegas, kind of pulls off the cheap gaudiness with a cheeky sort of charm, the 262 C doesn’t. Rather like an MR2-based Ferrari F40 kit car, it plays all the right notes, just not necessarily in the right order. To me it looks wrong. Inside it’s no better, with shiny, ruched-leather seats with platted belts and MFI-grade veneers.
The production in Turin wasn’t the mass-produced affair of a volume manufacturer. The cars were more or less built by hand rather than machine, and after the quality issues that plagued early 262 C’s, the standard of fit and finish was seen as generally high. It rode well, and while the 780 was no sports coupe it handled gamely, with good heft to its rack and pinion steering.
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