P1900 page

English translation of the story
on the P1900-sidn
in the PV-Entusisten # 3 1999 page 35.

By Ronald Hansback

Hi all PV-freaks. A special Hi to You who have the P1900 as a favourite.
These pictures are taken in Älvdalen in Dalecarlia, well known for the Hagstrom harmonica factory, its own ancient language and more. The pictures show my father Jan Erik Hansback and my younger brother Anders who are posing in P 1900. As far as I can remember, it was light blue.
At that time, the picture was shot around 1962 - 63, my father was a sales manager for the N.G Andersson Cars Sales Ltd in Rättvik. the company sold General Motors products. My father had traded the car for some sort of new Opel as far as I can remember. At that time the P 1900 was not very high rated. My father was ordered by Nisse his boss to go down to "the crazy people in Stockholm" damn fast and trade that plastic bathtub, which he also did to the dismay of me, my mother and brother. We thought the P 1900 was great.
This is my first contribution to the PV-Entusaisten, despite being a member for 15 years I have to admit.
Anyhow - better late than never.
More will come.
I have been "infected" by the car-bacilli since I was a child and have had several different vehicles since I was 18 years old. One of them was a P1800 I owned while I was in military service in Östersund.
The PV attracted my interest when I did not deem to afford to have a Yankee car any longer. I was comforted by the opinion that the PV is a miniature 1946 Ford.
The Volvo PV became a very pleasant companion that has been with me for so long.
And still is.
At present time I have no PV but I will not coop with that for so much onger. So if anyone of you has a car in good condition without an engine, I am interested.
Ronald Hansback, Sparreholm

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According to the registration card for W18976 the car has chassis number 16. It was owned for one year from the autumn of 1958 by mrs Margareta Skoglund in Leksand.
In August 1959 it was registered on N. G. Anderssons Bil AB in Rättvik. It was traded by a car dealer in Stockholm.
In 1960 it was registered on Jan Tolförs in Orsa. In August the same year the car was taken off the registry.
It was however not scrapped.
According to the P1900 issue of the PV-Entuasiasten published in 1991, # 16 was bought by Lars Lindström from Söderköping who owned the car until Stig Pettersson in Sexdrega bought it in 1991 and started a total restoration that was completed in 1993.
Many of you have probably seen this nice P1900 in some meeting.
Please note the tubular bumper over-rider and the V in the grill.
Red.

Original story by Ronald Hansback,
Translation by Dan Jansson (thanks to Mark Hershoren for assistance)