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Volvo L3314 Laplander - northern off-road artist of the sixties

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Created on October 3, 2012

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - almost unbeatable off-road thanks to reduction gearbox

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - primarily built for military use, but also very useful for civilian purposes

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - the military versions looked even more "warlike"

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - it is less at home on country roads than off-road

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - the Laplander was given a facelift during restoration

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - Spare wheel on the outside of the rear door

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - the design was based purely on function

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - the ideal vehicle for the Alpöhi

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - the driver sits above the front axle

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - the car is designed for off-road use

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - the drive down looks more dangerous from the pilot's perspective than it actually is

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - available with different bodies - here the hardtop version

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - a rare phenomenon in our latitudes

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - it comes with high legs

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - gets quite loud at higher speeds

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - you don't sit in the high-legged car, you climb into it

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - in the middle you can see the drive for the cable winch

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - huge wheels for the compact vehicle

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - does not shy away from steep inclines

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - the cable winch can be guided to the rear or front via deflection pulleys

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - maneuverable - small turning circle

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - external hinges on the doors

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - typical front-wheel drive - pedals on the bumper

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - sparse interior

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - Cockpit with the essentials - the rev counter is not standard

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - flat-bottomed steering wheel

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - 100 km/h is certainly the upper limit

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - Lettering in Swedish

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - the lever on the right is for the reduction gearbox

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - the engine sits between the driver and passenger

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - separate switches for left and right windshield wipers

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - Luxury - an ashtray

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - the type plate in the cab

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - little comfort for the rear passengers either

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - Access to the rear area

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - ribbed running board

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - the lettering on the front

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - with commercial vehicle character

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - the Volvo lettering of the time

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - fuel filler neck and door latch

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - the winch cable is guided by pulleys

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - front axle and rear axle are rigid and fitted with leaf springs

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - Low pressure tires

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Volvo L3314 (1965) - original Laplander with open loading bridge

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Volvo C303 (1976) - now with a six-cylinder engine and even more off-road capability

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Volvo C303 (1979) - the category winner of the 1983 Paris-Dakar Rally

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - die militärischen Versionen sahen noch etwas "kriegerischer" aus

Volvo L3314 (1964) - auf Landstrassen ist er weniger zuhause als im Gelände

Volvo L3314 (1964) - bei der Restaurierung wurde der Laplander optisch etwas aufgepeppt

Volvo L3314 (1964) - Ersatzrad aussen an der Hecktüre

Volvo L3314 (1964) - das Design wurde rein auf Funktion ausgelegt

Volvo L3314 (1964) - das ideale Gefährt für den Alpöhi

Summary

Long before the current SUVs, Volvo was already building off-road vehicles, mostly for military use. Between 1961 and 1970, Volvo produced almost 9,000 L3314/3315 all-wheel drive vehicles, some of which were also used in civilian environments, e.g. by fire departments, construction companies or airports. This report deals with the Volvo L3314 and its relatives and portrays an L3314HT from 1964 in detail.

This article contains the following chapters

Volvo with 4x4 passenger cars early on
Reaching into the spare parts shelf
Functional design without frippery
Into series production with the L3314
Special technical features
Civilian use as a police, fire department or multi-purpose vehicle
With the Series 2 to Hungary
Restored over six years
Sitting on the front axle
The off-road king
Still practical today

Estimated reading time: 5min

Preview (beginning of the article)

When you think of the earlier Volvo models, you generally remember the humpback Volvo (e.g. PV 444), the Amazon (e.g. 123 S) or the elegant P 1800 S coupé. But hardly anyone will imagine a high-legged off-road vehicle with the stature of a Pinzgauer. But between 1961 and 1970, Volvo produced almost 9,000 L3314/3315 all-wheel drive vehicles. Designed as a military vehicle, most of them were used in hard military service, however, and only a small proportion of the total production was used for civilian purposes. As early as 1943, Volvo built an off-road vehicle called the TVP on the chassis of the PV 800, equipped with a six-cylinder petrol engine that produced around 80 hp. The car, which ended up being called the TP21, was built until the early 1960s.

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Volvo L3314 (1964) - die militärischen Versionen sahen noch etwas "kriegerischer" aus

Volvo L3314 (1964) - auf Landstrassen ist er weniger zuhause als im Gelände

Volvo L3314 (1964) - bei der Restaurierung wurde der Laplander optisch etwas aufgepeppt

Volvo L3314 (1964) - Ersatzrad aussen an der Hecktüre

Volvo L3314 (1964) - das Design wurde rein auf Funktion ausgelegt

Volvo L3314 (1964) - das ideale Gefährt für den Alpöhi

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