I love me a Safari - fond memories of watching them on TV as a kid, either as a camera car at the horse racing, or a support vehicle for the Tour de France.
My first car. Even that colour. Cost me $50 and drove it for 6 months before the engine blew. Sold it for $250 for parts. Still have the keys and the chevrons somewhere. My father had a '58 DKW at the same time. In small town Ontario we had the 2 oddest cars in the town in the same driveway. It was not unusual to look out the window and see a French or German person telling us it was the best car he ever owned.
Oh and the friend who was actually driving when the engine blew - when I was driving would only ever sit in the furthest rear jump seat even if it was just the two of us in the car.
I sometime think back on those cars and that time (late 70's) I suspect the engine blew because we were running the car too lean and it detonated in the top of the engine. I clearly remember trying to set the timing with no information - no manual and no place to find one. The closest Citroen shop was 2 hours away. Likewise, every time my parents went back to Holland my dad would come home with DKW parts in his luggage because in Canada almost no one even knew what it was. More to the point I remember that without the internet it was almost impossible for an enthusiast with an odd vehicle to make any sort of progress. This pic reminds me both of a lovely and simpler time in my life but also how far we have come in terms of ease of access to parts and expertise.
A lovely example of a fine car - though given how may they made always surprised me they used common rear windows with the saloon...
That picture got me looking at older Volvos - to potentially replace my daily driver 2007 XC70
How do you find the xc70? Old man is toying with one for load lugging duties and a bit of a woodland workhorse. I fear the turbo in his saab aero estate has lunched itself or its the sludge issue.