we had the same wagon in forest dark green color of some sort. It was a '79 or slightly older. Parents hauled us cross-country more than once in it (and an early-80s dirt-brown Audi), and then we took it to the Philippines where it handled some of the worst roads on the planet for 3 years with nary a problem other than running out of fuel with 1/2 a tank on a super-steep incline road (way steeper than you'd ever see in the US).
I'm betting it still drives in the Philippines someplace, but is probably adorned with hundreds of chrome do-dads as is the style there.....
The Volvo in the link is a '73 (ugly turn signal lenses and first year for the shock absorber mounted bumpers) not a '76. The fenders and front clip was different by '75 though.
I know an itty bitty bit of Volvo trivia.
So the back of one of those is where little Liberals come from, right? I wonder if a "Free Tibet" bumper sticker is required?
In reply to SVreX:
Best thing about them is it's easy to swap a gas guzzling American V-8 into!
Unlike my old Rodeo, they aren't long enough to properly berkeley in. 
Curmudgeon wrote: Unlike my old Rodeo, they aren't long enough to properly berkeley in.
Where there's a willy, there's a way. 
Curmudgeon wrote: Unlike my old Rodeo, they aren't long enough to properly berkeley in.
Any car is big enough to berkeley in if you are creative.
Among other vehicles, I got down to bidness in the passenger front seat of a 1968 Spitfire. While the top was up (it was pouring down rain). So yes I know about creative car berkeleyin'. 
I'm talking PROPER berkeleying, where you have enough room to get REALLY creative.
Does anybody remember the "Volvo of Turin" image? How could Volvo not be the most Berkeley car ever?
Having lived in the Bay Area, and in spite of truly disliking the uber liberal Berkeley, I drove there quite a bit and the percentage of Volvo's on the road there is amazing. I would differ with the vote a bit in that I saw more 240 series cars than 140s. As long as Volvo's will last, 1974 (the last 140 model year) was a long time ago now.
Swappage ease: The 140s were double A arm up front and have a narrower engine bay than the 240s when Volvo went mac strut to accommodate V engines.
Curmudgeon wrote: Unlike my old Rodeo, they aren't long enough to properly berkeley in.
'75 AMC Hornet wagon and '78 Dodge Aspen wagons are. 
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