Equipment
1778/95hp, PerTronix ignition, 4-speed, hub caps.
Condition
#4 Fair
Has visible flaws to the naked eye. Runs fine, but could use mechanical or cosmetic attention.
Repainted in 2020 and has newer front seat covers as well as miscellaneous mechanical servicing, but otherwise largely original and shows plenty of of scruffiness, including some rust underneath. It's a driver with visible flaws. The five-digit odometer shows 52,000 miles, which could just as easily be 252,000 or 952,000, but in the last nine years, the seller reportedly added only about 200 miles to the total. This Amazon is nevertheless, as they say, an “honest” car.
Market commentary
This is a is a prime example of a good car flying low. It's not perfect, but other flawed driver-condition Volvo Amazons (so named for the female warriors of Greek mythology) have brought more. It is exactly the kind of car you’d want to own and drive and restore as you go. As one commenter noted, all of this car’s needs appear to be “driveway-doable.” Roughly $600 in rubber bits and retaining straps from IPD plus a $40 eBay washer reservoir will address just about all of the car’s most pressing issues, and the buyer will still come out below the $12,000 at which we currently value similar 122S two-doors. Even better, this is not a car the buyer will need to be delicate with. Amazons are stout, overengineered, under-stressed 95-hp machines, and with minimal care not much will go awry. It is as ideal for vintage rallies as it is for weekends puttering about, this car. We'd say this buyer got into a pretty, good car at a pretty good time and should be thrilled for what comes next.