New guy, new project, need your input.

I think I'll let these 2 pass by... One is too rough (need new passenger doors, rusting around the driver side's rocker and around the rear wheel well) and the other one (the non-starting), is not as good in real as it looked on the pictures. It is starting to rust around the rocker too.

So I'll start looking south! but I don't really know where to start. anybody can give me some good links to cars for sale websites?

Thinking about it, I might just buy the running one around here to have a feel on how a Volvo drives and know if I like it. It's only 400$ so I don't have much to loose! And that could make me a good rally cross beater while I prepare the good one, then I can become my second car, so I could too roll my car in the shakedown on Friday and have another identical car to start the rally the next day

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Francois

Francois Wrote:
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> I think I'll let these 2 pass by... One is too
> rough (need new passenger doors, rusting around
> the driver side's rocker and around the rear wheel
> well) and the other one (the non-starting), is not
> as good in real as it looked on the pictures. It
> is starting to rust around the rocker too.
>
> So I'll start looking south! but I don't really
> know where to start. anybody can give me some
> good links to cars for sale websites?
>
> Thinking about it, I might just buy the running
> one around here to have a feel on how a Volvo
> drives and know if I like it. It's only 400$ so I
> don't have much to loose! And that could make me
> a good rally cross beater while I prepare the good
> one, then I can become my second car, so I could
> too roll my car in the shakedown on Friday and
> have another identical car to start the rally the
> next day
>
> Francois

Francois, I'm too an aspiring maybe one day volvo rally driver. Don't waste $400 dollars on any Volvo in Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick (you get the point).

Besides the obvious rust, there is rust you can't see (ie on the inside of boxed sheet metal members). It may look just fine on the outside, but may be significantly weakened by rust. I'll give you an example. I had a 1972 142 that I had fun with, but it was time for it to be broken for parts and the rest scrapped.. I jacked on one of the subframe box sections and it crushed almost completely (after the car had been stripped of some parts even).. and it had no appearance of rust!

Besides there is nothing that you will get for your 400 dollars for that car than you can't get for 400 dollars any time else.

Oh and you won't be overly thrilled at how a stock non turbo 240 drives.

That being said, buy it, beat the crap out of it and then strip the parts (cut off the quarters) etc.. you will need em one day and they will eventually get rare.

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Andrew M
Onterrible
30ish



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/13/2008 08:32PM by hudson.