Used Car of the Day: 1967 Volvo 122S Amazon

Tim Healey
by Tim Healey

Today we bring you something a little different: A 1967 Volvo 122S Amazon.


The seller says it runs, drives, and stops; but it needs a new front carb. The interior is "decent" and the exterior has no serious rust but some rust bubbles. Our seller says the floors and underside are "solid".

The exhaust was replaced last summer and the car is lowered on IPD springs.

I don't have a mileage, and the transmission is unclear, the listing seems to suggest an automatic was swapped out for a manual.

The ask for this Milwaukee-area car is $13,500.

If you're a Volvo person or just like uncommon classic cars, check it out here.

[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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  • MaintenanceCosts MaintenanceCosts on Dec 19, 2023

    Listing has a feeling of honesty. Car looks nice and like it's worth some effort.


    But I just can't get past my own childhood, which featured a number of Amazon-driving teachers at my school that required both hands to count. I will always see them and think of the nerdiest teachers I ever had.

  • Theflyersfan Theflyersfan on Dec 19, 2023

    After Studebaker closed up shop in South Bend and my grandfather had to move onto other places to design automotive parts (and the Studebaker free cars dried up for obvious reasons), he became a Volvo coupe driver, including one very similar to this one. I wish I remembered the exact model. He was at a red light, sitting in his similar Volvo, when someone speeding didn't stop in time and slammed right into the rear of his car. The entire trunk and part of the rear caved in like it should. And this is in the days before everyone wore seat belts and cars were nowhere as safe as they are now, including Volvos. When the police and paramedics arrived, they were absolutely stunned to see my grandfather sitting on the curb waiting for them. They thought they would find his body in the car. The other driver lived, but was in very bad shape. Even back then, Volvo designed their cars to sacrifice themselves and him driving this car and surviving helped give him another almost 50 years. And he got another Volvo. Our old cars have stories, and I'm sure this old Volvo has a few to tell.

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    • Jeff Jeff on Dec 20, 2023

      I wasn't sure of what year of Plymouth wagon because the side profiles are similar on the 57 thru 59. My parents 59 Sport Suburban bought new in the Fall of 1958 was a white 9 passenger (rear facing 3rd seat) with the extra air conditioner between the 2 and 3rd rows, and push button drive. My brother was in an accident in the Fall of 1961 and was hit in the driver's side by a car doing 50 mph which totaled our Plymouth. The Plymouth actually flipped on its roof and very little body damage was done but the frame was twisted like a pretzel and could not be straightened. The green 60 Ford station wagon had damage to the grill, bumper, and hood. Fortunately my brother was wearing his seat belt and was not hurt and fortunately he was wearing a sweater because the glass pop bottles in the back he was returning for deposit broke and glass was all over the car including on his sweater but he did not get cut. We had just sold my father's 58 Studebaker Scotsman and had just ordered a new 62 Chevy II 300 sedan. Hurricane Carla hit Galveston and Houston shortly after my brother's accident and my father borrowed a 61 Ford Falcon from his employer till we were able to replace our wagon. Unfortunately my father bought a 59 Buick Lesabre wagon after Carla that had been flooded in the hurricane. Not a lot of new cars in stock after the hurricane. When they tell you not to buy a flood damaged car believe it that Buick was always having problems from electrical issues to transmission and it had a musty smell which never left and you could see where the water had reached inside the doors with some rust. We did receive our new Chevy II just before Thanksgiving.


  • Theflyersfan I always thought this gen XC90 could be compared to Mercedes' first-gen M-class. Everyone in every suburban family in every moderate-upper-class neighborhood got one and they were both a dumpster fire of quality. It's looking like Volvo finally worked out the quality issues, but that was a bad launch. And now I shall sound like every car site commenter over the last 25 years and say that Volvo all but killed their excellent line of wagons and replaced them with unreliable, overweight wagons on stilts just so some "I'll be famous on TikTok someday" mom won't be seen in a wagon or minivan dropping the rug rats off at school.
  • Theflyersfan For the stop-and-go slog when sitting on something like The 405 or The Capital Beltway, sure. It's slow and there's time to react if something goes wrong. 85 mph in Texas with lane restriping and construction coming up? Not a chance. Radar cruise control is already glitchy enough with uneven distances, lane keeping assist is so hyperactive that it's turned off, and auto-braking's sole purpose is to launch loose objects in the car forward. Put them together and what could go wrong???
  • Jalop1991 This is easy. The CX-5 is gawdawful uncomfortable.
  • Aaron This is literally my junkyard for my 2001 Chevy Tracker, 1998 Volvo S70, and 2002 Toyota Camry. Glad you could visit!
  • Lou_BC Let me see. Humans are fallible. They can be very greedy. Politicians sell to the highest bidder. What could go wrong?
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