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“IT TAKES THE P1800’S DRIVING DELICACY AND ADDS MUSCLE IN ALL THE RIGHT PLACES”

If you’re one of the 10-or-so lucky sods each year who will take delivery of a £380,000 Volvo P1800 Cyan, may I suggest dropping some of your loose change on an original P1800 from the Sixties, too. Only then will you appreciate the lengths Cyan Racing has gone to in order to kiss the very peaks of restomod perfection.

While the old-timer is all sorts of wonderful – four and a half metres of sweeps, swishes and swoops perched atop moon disc hub caps – Cyan’s reimagination is better. It takes the P1800’s driving delicacy

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