"An odd looking little bugger it was, sort of like a three-quarter scale 1946 Ford. The year was 1956, and Sweeden was making its first foray into the great American automotive marketplace with a car whose design harked back to before World War II: the Volvo PV444. This was sheer madness! Nobody in America had ever heard of a Swedish automobile."

Today's it's hard to believe that when Arch Brown wrote this article on the Volvo PV544, the featured car was just a couple dozen years old. For some perspective, that'd be the same as writing a story about the first Ford Taurus nowadays. Then again, the 1961 PV544 wasn't too much changed from its predecessors over the prior 15 years; can't say that about too many cars from the 1980s.

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