My business partner and I bought this yesterday, an anniversary 264. These were built in 1977 to celebrate 50 years of Volvo, they were only available in this configuration of silver with blue velour.
The anniversary edition was available as a 244 in 1977 as well, which they built 500 of, the 264 anniversary production numbers aren't known unfortunately. The anniversary 244 never came to Australia, the 264 did but improt numbers are unknown.
The anniversary 264 spec includes: silver metallic paint with side strips, alloy wheels, golde sunroof, brass 1927-1977 anniversary badges, pioneer power antenna and locking fuel cap.
The interior has blue velour, rubber floor mats, full power windows, pioneer 4 channel radio with cassette player, rear headrests, brass badge on the steering wheel and silver plate on glove box.
My cousin had one of these new in Sydney but I've never worked out where it ended up.
This one came up for sale in Mortlake and we thought it was worth getting. We bought it from the granddaughter of the original, it was clear her grandfather had taken very good care of it.
The condition of the interior is amazing, it's very hard to get the velour to photograph well but it looks very good in person. The dash is uncracked and it has the original pioneer/Volvo radio.
The body needs some work but nothing major. It will need a good polish, the badges restoring, some marks touched up and there's some tiny bits of rust under the LH tail light. The wheels will get restored with new tyres.
Plans are to keep it as original as possible, put it on club rego and just use it for special occasions/weekends.
The drive home went well, it has some vibration from the front brakes, and the alternator isn't great. It ran and drove very well on the two hour drive home.
Thanks to @irishbastard for driving me down there to pick it up.
