Sports America for the 6th Annual Swedish Car Cruise-In at the XXX (Root Beer) drive-in restaurant in Issaquah, Washington on Sunday 19 February.

Dennis Wright, who has owned nine Volvos, brought a modified 1967 Volvo 122S over from Port Orchard on the other side of the Puget Sound inlet. It sported a tuned exhaust and Weber downdraft carburetors. He had rewired the entire car before taking it out on the road and fitted the engine with high-temperature valves after what he described as "a horrible experience using regular gas" with regular valves.

Wright says that while he'd started out with a 1955 Chevrolet, and had "a few cars in between," he eventually gravitated towards Volvos.

"Back when I was in college, they