I currently work as ipd's marketing coordinator and graphic designer. I was an ipd customer for many years before I became an employee September of 2006. I currently own 4 vintage cars. My favorite and current daily driver is my blue 1970 142s. Tons of work has been put into this car with an enormous amount of help from my dad who somehow sucked me into these Swedish monsters. It's now an addiction I can't quite conquer and it's gotten to the point where I'm not sure if I want to. These cars are so fun to drive. I'm currently working on the interior dash of the car creating a custom aluminum cover for the face, custom knobs, adding a few gauges etc. I plan on making aluminum door lock pins and bezels, updating my stereo system and a few other little additions and will post photos soon. It has pretty much every ipd product available and has had an incredible amount of body work done... again.... my dad. I had an idea of what I wanted and my dad helped make it a reality. I truly consider this car my dad's as much as it is my own. The other 142 is a 1972 that has a nicely done b230 conversion done to it. It's a beautiful car that I recently sold to buy the 240 but comes into ipd for all it's car care needs.

UPDATE: I'm currently in the process of finalizing my custom dash face. It's made of aluminum and has a few more gauges and toggles for various things. My last little project is to replace the old stock knobs and faces. I've lathed some new faces and now need to make the actual knob that the faces will sit in. The faces will be anodized black and laser etched with the labels of what they control. I'll get a picture up asap so you can see what I'm talking about. I'm pretty happy with the dash but you be the judge.

I did one other experiment over the weekend and that was to add a custom racing stripe. At this point it's only on the hood. I need to decide if I like it. If I do, I'll carry the strip all the way to the back of the car. My wife doesn't like it but it's kinda growing on me. Let me know what you think.

I also reluctantly had to add a front licence plate to the car because I've been pulled over 3 times in a month recently because I didn't have a front plate. That infuriates me. I think the only reason they pulled me over was out of curiousity of what the car was. Whatever. The license plate bracket was actually pretty cool to figure out how to make and I hate to say it but I kinda like the way it breaks up the front end of the car.

I've also mounted my 800 watt Sony XPlod amp just under the glove box. You can kinda see it in the photo below. It powers my two 10 inch subs that I have in the trunk.

See pictures at right and let me know what you think...  

My current 140 and my former 140


As an experiment I've added a racing stripe

I had to make a custom licence plate hanger to mount a front plate to satisfy the po-po in my hood. 

• B18 motor bored out to B20 specs
• weber carb
• Front and rear ipd anti-sway bars
• Electronic ignition
• Brake booster
• ipd spark plug wires
• 15" Panasport wheels
• ipd overload coils
• generator to alternator conversion
• Whool seat covers 
• steel braided brake lines

1990 245 Specs and Mods:

• ipd front and rear anti-sway bars
• ipd lowering springs
• ipd sport exhaust

I also still have the 1971 145 I drove in high school. It hasn't been driven in a while and is bone stock except for a weber carb but this car is on my list of projects. I'm not sure what I want to do with it as far as modifications. Probably not much if any except for sway bars and lowering springs. I'd really like to do something with a 122, either with my 67 or find a 122 sedan to mod. I'm sure if it's meant to be then the car will find me. Isn't that always the way it works?

1971 145 Specs and Mods:

• Weber carb
• Bone stock