Used Car of the Day: 1975 Volvo TGB11

Tim Healey
by Tim Healey

This super rare 1975 Volvo TGB11 utility comes to us from Richmond, Virginia.


Available for $24,500, this beast has front, rear, and center lockers, portal axles, a four-speed transmission with hi and lo ranges, and a U.S. title. The seller says everything works.

Take a look at it here. You can see it busy mudding. Looks pretty dang cool, if you ask me.

[Images: Seller]

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Tim Healey
Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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  • Master Baiter Consumers should have the right to purchase products from other countries if they are better or cheaper than domestic alternatives. However, retaining the capacity to manufacture goods is also in the national interest. I don't have the answer.
  • Tom Frank …hit up a Ford or Lincoln dealer to have the vehicle software updated to the latest version…But isn’t the latest version the reason for the recall? I’d like last month’s software, please. That version worked.
  • Pig_Iron Many, many moons ago in in my macro economics class, they preached to us from upon high that "free trade" is the only way to go. Period. End of discussion. So free trade spread across North America and deindustrialization swept the land. Employment in good paying jobs with saving wages, health benefits, and decent pensions evaporated in the rush to offshore. But not to worry they said, the "knowledge economy" would replace it. But the knowledge proved even easier to offshore. Don't worry they said we are now a "service economy". But those jobs turned out to be little more than wage slavery. But don't worry they said. there's actually a labor shortage, so we'll throw the borders wide open to undocumented fighting age male migrants and turn a blind eye to others exploited in the process. And on top of all that, China has declared "unrestricted warfare" on us. So, you ask me if protectionism is a valid strategy to combat a flood of products on a markedly tilted playing field? Three guesses, first two don't count. ✌
  • THX1136 I don't view Chinese products as being all that much better. For me they are the new 'made in Japan' which, when I was a kid, was an indicator of poor quality, not exceptional as they became. Case in point, look at the cheap (meaning poorly made) items that make up over 60% (conservatively) of what's on the shelf at retailers such as Wally World. I would agree allowing them in without much todo would in theory push others to do better. I feel that is only sometimes the case. AND, it's an election year so there is tons o'posturing on both sides.
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