Another JVL convert...
Posted by DR1665
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Brian Driggs Senior Moderator Location: Glendale Join Date: 06/08/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 832 Rally Car: Keyboard. Deal with it. |
Haha.
The problem is that this kid's insurance carrier, one Safeway Insurance, seems to think that, because there is oil on the top of the valve cover and I didn't install the timing belt cover up top, the $1100 worth of receipts I sent them to prove that I rebuilt the engine don't mean dick. They offered me $1300 for the Galant, minus a $200 buy back. I sent them 12 pages of documentation showing the average selling price for all (45) GVR4s listed for sale on GalantVR4.org is almost 4800, and even went so far as to provide specific links to (20) GVR4s in similar condition to mine selling for $3500-$4500. They come back with $1900 and no buy back fee. Fuck them. I've filed a complaint with the AZ Dept of Insurance Consumer Affairs Division and have an appointment set for the 20th with the family attorney. If the Galant has to wear a salvage title from now on, then their insured can pay for my roll cage. So, since my Talon refuses to part ways with the EVAP leak code which has kept me from registering it in AZ for the last seven years, I'm 80% through with dropping a stock engine into it in preparation for selling it. This Volvo will be my daily driver that I hope will smoothly and quietly get me to and from work while getting more than 300 miles to a tank of gas. (*cough* Galant *cough*) It's an 86 245 GL Wagon in burgundy. Paint is faded, seats are torn (but covered), dash has a couple cracks (but is covered), and the owner has recently had the belts, fluids, transmission mounts, and tires replaced. This is his sixth Volvo and he fancies himself something of a fanatic. He says the brick runs smoothly, tracks straight and true, and shifts like butter (slushbox). It's going to stay 95% stock and serve daily driver duty for the long haul. If I do anything to it, I will tint the windows, install a nice stereo, and just enjoy driving a reliable, stock car. Perhaps, one day down the road, I will hang a snail on it or something, but for now, I get something to just change the oil and drive while I build the Galant into a proper rally car. This is pretty much what it looks like, only more faded and used. I'm stoked. My sig on turbobricks.net is something like "John V sent me." 
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NoCoast Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Wait. Does the one your getting have those > headlights? > The single square and single rounds are by far the > best headlight styles, reverse respectively. Close. I suspect those pictured above are e-code or something. This is a picture of the actual car I'm going to see. I'm waiting on more, but the guy is impressing me with his answering all my questions the right way. So the plan is to go check it out and probably buy it Wednesday night. Curious about the odometer stopping, but I've got some searching to do on the brick forum. (I'm considering a Brick Tamland reference from Anchorman. Perhaps "TAMLAND?" 
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DR1665 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Curious about the odometer stopping, but I've got > some searching to do on the brick forum. (I'm > considering a Brick Tamland reference from > Anchorman. Perhaps "TAMLAND?"
Odometer and NOT speedometer? Andrew M Onterrible 30ish |
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I could care less about lighting performance from regular headlights. It's purely aesthetic. The four squares are less ugly than the stock Merkur headlights, but that's about it.
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Brian Driggs Senior Moderator Location: Glendale Join Date: 06/08/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 832 Rally Car: Keyboard. Deal with it. |
Speaking of lighting performance...
These things put out some decent light, but the way they're currently aimed and yellowed, it's like driving with fog lights on alone. Sheesh! Talked the owner fown $200 on account of excessive oil leakage near the deck (head gasket?) and a non-functioning temp gauge in the cluster. It's got other issues (below), but so far, I'm pretty stocked. This is going to hopefully be one helluva nice daily driver. 30mpg here I come! Issues: - oil leak - no high beams (relay?) - pathetic headlights - temp gauge failure (checking harness to sending unit below intake runner) Otherwise, it tracks nice, rides firm but smooth, shifts crisply for a slushbox, and all the power windows work flawlessly. Stoked. Brian Driggs | KG7KCA | PHX, AZ | 89 Pajero alterius non sit qui suus esse potest |
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