1967 Volvo P1800 from The Saint - Jay Leno's Garage

That is a car you don´t see every day, even in Sweden. These old Volvos make me proud to be Swedish and to have grown up in a town where they built gearboxes and rear axles for Volvo.

I used to live near Roger Moore, as a child I remember seeing this actual car driving past my school in Stanmore, North West London. As kids we noticed the car more than the driver!

one of the most beautiful cars ever

Volvo is still one of the most underappreciated brands on the classic market.

Bill Krzastek was my math teacher for 3 years at Waynesboro High School! He teaches Algebra, Pre-calculus, Calculus, and Probability and Statistics. And in almost every class, he would talk about his cars. Loves, loves, LOVES his cars

Hello Folks. Thank you for all of your comments regarding "ST1". I've tried to answer most people's questions but I thought I would try to answer the most popular questions in a new post as well.     With this post, I'll try to answer the questions that pertain to Mr. Leno's Garage and the filming. 1) Why is the turn signal on?        I asked Mr. Leno this as we were driving. As he drives the cars on public roads and is being followed by a crew filming the moving vehicle, he uses the turn signal to tell the camera crew where he is going next so they know the right lane to be in before the turn.  2) How long is the drive?       I was told if Mr. Leno does not like a car, he is back in four minutes. The average is 20-22 minutes. We were gone for 40 minutes! Mr. Leno really enjoyed driving the car and just kept going: local streets, country roads, Interstate, all over. 3) How long is the shoot?      The intial interview in the garage takes about 25 minutes. The driving portion varies. In my case, it lasted 40 minutes. Only 20 minutes of the 65 minutes filmed were used in the edited product. 4) Why am I not looking at Mr. Leno?      The directions I received from the film crew was to look in one direction, answer the questions, keep it short.     Well, I did what they told me! While driving, as the car is RHD, I had to lean back as much as possible so the film crew who were driving alongside could try to capture Mr. Leno. After all, he is the star!    By the way, there are no retakes. Bill

A very special moment for me. Thank you Jay, Bill, Bill's wife and all those who made the return of this glorious car possible. I grew up watching The Saint, and never thought that almost 6 decades later, I could look at the details of this car like the fan and the ashtray, and could try to visualize Roger Moore's kids sitting in the back. Very appreciated.

I purchased new a 1970 Volvo P 1800 E. It was very similar to what is shown here, but with fuel injection. I loved that car and seriously regret ever selling it. I was moving to Hawaii at the time and there were no Volvo dealers there and would have had a problem getting it serviced. It was a real hoot to drive and as Jay says in the video that was where I learned I really wanted a grand touring vehicle rather than a "boy racer" hot rod sports car. Timeless design and really comfortable and fun to drive.

P1800's, Datsun 240Z's, Datsun 510's, Triumph TR6 - were all pretty common when I was a teen but I couldn't afford them. Now I've got a bit more money, they're all getting rare and collectible and I still can't afford one.

I owned one for 15 years, until it got totalled. One of the saddest days of my life. This car was so easy to love. Lots of fun to drive, and great looking, too. When it was tunred, the exhaust note was beautiful. I wish I could hit the lottery to go out and buy a restored one. Just a wonderful car!

My '69 1800S went 800,000 miles. I think of that car most every day. Most balanced car and handled corners better than anything Ive ever driven. Best car ever made.

RIP Irv Gordon. the man with the three million mile Volvo.

I had one of these back in the UK in the late 60’s when I worked on Concorde down at BAC Weybridge. As Jay says it was a very relaxing grand tourer, but one problem was that it was a heavy car and looked much faster than it actually was, so driving back at weekends on the M1 I would be do something like 85/90mph in the fast lane and you could see drivers thinking of moving from the middle lane, but then holding back when they saw me and waiting, and waiting, for me to go past. (I drove a friend’s E-type, also on the M1, and did +120mph in that, so I could understand why they were waiting!) But it redeemed itself whenever I parked because when I returned there would always be people looking at the number plate to see if it was ST1. It was a very enjoyable car and I’m happy to see that the original ST1 is in such good hands.

The best car show I've seen for a long time. Technical stuff, Nostalgia, Affectionate humour. I loved it, thank you so much.

Jay and Bill what a brilliant tribute to the Volvo P1800. I really enjoyed this episode. Jay is a very rich guy but he's still down to earth. 👍

I’d die to own a car as beautiful as this. Something about it just resonates with me. I was at a gas station, and a guy driving a maroon P1800 pulled up right behind me for a refill. I got the chance to ask him about it and he told me a bit about how he got it and the history of his specific car. That was a great day, to say the least.

Just wanna take the time to say George Swift is one God of a mechanic... Extremely talented and always humble, deserve's some credit for getting all these pieces of history running like new!

Nice episode, but I think at some point they should have mentioned the guy who actually designed ithe P1800, Mr Pelle Pettersson. He was just a student and an apprentice at the time, but would go on to become a famous sailor and yacht designer. Over the years he has designed many other things too, always with the same elegant but yet clean stile.

I've owned 3 544 Volvos, 1 P1800 and 1 850T. Every one was a great car and miss them all. The P1800 was the only one that had rust issues.

I owned a 1964 122 wagon in college.I drove that car every where cost to coast so many times. I met a girl & well I needed a bigger car soon enough. The Volvo had almost 600,000 miles on it & the engine still ran like a Swiss watch.but the body was toast,New England winters,salty roads.At idle the engine was so smooth you couldn't even hear it nor feel any vibration. Plus she never lost a drop of oil. Amazing engine ! When I decided to junk it a good friend took the drive train recycled the sheet metal.He raced Volvos then & apparently still does.When I last talked to him he reported that untouched he dropped my old drive train into a rally racer & drove it for many year w/out any major issues until his son seriously wracked the racing Volvo around a tree! Bullet proof engines not however oak proof. Cheers!!.......