Volvo 240 wagons in movies?

I'm trying to think of movies in which Volvo 240 wagons make an appearance.
The only ones that come to mind at the moment are "The Hand That Rocks the
Cradle" and "Mystic Pizza," and "Fatal Attraction," but I know there are lots
of others. Can anyone name some more? The 240 wagon doesn't have to be the
focal point of the movie, or play any featured role at all, just make an
appearance. Thanks!

 

I'm trying to think of movies in which Volvo 240 wagons make an appearance.

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.


| >I'm trying to think of movies in which Volvo 240 wagons make an
appearance.
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| How about "The World according to Garp" with Robin Williams.

 

Subject: Re: Volvo 240 wagons in movies?

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.

 

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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!

 

Subject: Re: Volvo 240 wagons in movies?

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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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.