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Re: super cars
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Date: 
Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:15:53 GMT
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Jennifer Clark <jen@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> writes:

The 956 always reminded me of a Volvo estate car from the Seventies,
for some reason.

Me too!  I guess it's because I'm Scandinavian, and we have had a lot of
Volvo 24x around here.

And there was also the Technic idea book in which they had a modified
956.  It had a "station wagen" body which reminded me pretty much of the
Volvo.

Fredrik



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  Re: super cars
 
You are correct to remember that Lego offered a suggestion to modify the 956. One photograph appeared on the front cover of the instruction books for all of the first series of Expert Builder sets and towards the back three additional photographs (...) (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic)
  Re: super cars
 
(...) I remember that too, and remember thinking it looked pretty dodgy. I tried to make a similar type of body for the 8860 at the time, which looked equally dodgy. To be honest, I think the only really viable bodywork for those cars is the type on (...) (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic)

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(...) The 956 always reminded me of a Volvo estate car from the Seventies, for some reason. Perhaps it was the foldy cushion bit in the back seat? :-) Jennifer Clark (24 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.technic)

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