Surely every one of us has dreamed of owning a particular car, the so-called dream car. It was no different for me in 1988, and my dream car back then was the Volvo 760 GLE station wagon. But such dreams usually burst very quickly once you hear the price, and this Volvo station wagon cost a whopping 50,000 DM in 1988.
This station wagon never existed as a large-scale model, but Italeri had released it as a sedan. So I bought the kit, which at 19.95 DM was more affordable than the real thing, and converted the sedan. I had a drawing sent to me by Volvo Germany, took additional photos at a Volvo dealership, and then got to work.
I do not want to repeat word for word the entire build report I wrote for Modell Magazin in March 1988.
Build report in the May 1988 issue of Modell Magazin