Volvo Dudes Are these any good?

Here's the add I'm refering to
http://humboldt.craigslist.org/car/671899880.html

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Michael LeCompte

Way better than GTX.
Excellent balance, STRONG engine, erasily upgradable.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

LOL!!!

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Michael LeCompte

Love those old Volvos. I miss my 164E! Straight six baby!

pikespeakgtx Wrote:
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> LOL!!!

Array the poarts of that Maz-dog thing next to the really MUCH LARGER, much better quality parts of the Volvo and tell me which ones are better.

You simply don't understand what good is.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

< ...MUCH LARGER, much better quality parts of the Volvo and tell me which ones are better. >

Hold up... are you talking about physical size of the parts or are you talkin bout # of parts available?

Seems like physical size. The MazDog isn't a heavy chunk of iron like the volvo is. The rest of the parts don't need to be that big. It's like a proportionality thing ain't it?

I used to rally a volvo 240 on the farm. It was a great car...except I kept braking tie rods and tie rod ends from hitting rocks. We sawed the roof off of it after we rolled it so it was full convertible with no windshield. Spray painted "Keep on Rockin' in the Free World" on the side. It was a good time.

Finally gave up on it after braking a tie rod end and slamming straight into a tree.

PLUS...Fuck, you said balance? Hows a 1892 volvo wagon got balance? I mean I'll admit I really don't know much about volvos, especially compared to you, but that sheet seems like an egg-ass-teration.

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Michael LeCompte

Michael,

I remember driving one when it was brand new. That model Volvo was the very FIRST car I ever drove that came from the factory properly geared for mountain roads. In it's day it handled great too. Go for it. Put some decent shocks and tires on it and I bet you'll love it.

Rich Smith

PS: It the "International Peasant" still serving food in Arcata? It was great. Didn't have a menu. Served beakfast, lunch and dinner. No choices, you just ate what they served for that meal. Great food!! And Cheap!!





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Rich,
No kidding? You drove one of those when it was brand new? As you know we have plenty of mountains. I talked to the guy and I'm going to take a look at them tomorrow afternoon.

International Peasant? Umm.... No Sir I can't say I've ever heard of it. Not in my 4 years anyway. It sounds perfect. There's nothing cheap about Arcata anymore. Not with the dope-growers driving all the prices up.

Michael LeCompte

P.S. If you like good sushi come back to Arcata sometime! There's at least 4 or 5 great places between here in Eureka.

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Michael LeCompte

They're free.. I'd take them both in a blink if I lived anywhere near and had the space.

The reason why volvo has such a bad performance rap is because out of the box they're unbelievably tame.. that and they tend to be owned by boring people.

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Andrew M
Onterrible
30ish

Yeah I wuz... kinda dump huh? Don't worry I'm picking them up this weekend!!!

There's the white car and the Light Green car.
White car has red interior. Light Green car has guess? Green interior.

Overall the Lt. Green one is more complete. BUT it's sat and sat and no one's driven it for 20 years. The rusty floors are the green car. The dizzy and coil are there. Carbs are siezed up. But he's got a DCOE webber on an intake for it that he said he'd sell me for $200. Seems like a lot of the parts to get the white one running are going to come from under the hood of this car.

The White car has mix matched fenders and doors due to rust. The owner replaced the fenders and doors with clean straight panels a couple years ago. He has all new bushings for the suspension in a bag.It has newer springs and sway bars on it already. A rebuilt engine and new clutch. Exhuast looked decent from what I saw.
Owner was concern with the white car is the rusty rockers but to me they aren't that bad. I went along both rockers poking with a punch and only went through in a few spots. The underneath seems pretty dang solid. The red and black panel picture with the jackstand is the white cars rocker.

Looks like theres one complete set of trim to go with both cars. Driveshafts are out of both cars as they're ready to be towed.

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Michael LeCompte

Both sides of the engine of the white car and underneath from the front.

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Michael LeCompte



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white car rocker rust. Pretty much the extent of it! I pulled back the front fenders and poked around in there. It's solid.

The next two are lt.green cars floors. Those volvo seats are freakin sweet!

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Michael LeCompte

This is the steering wheel of the Pea Green car. Steering wheel is tits.
Thats a heady grateful dead sticker in the back window maaan....

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Michael LeCompte

White car's backseat and front dash view. Did these cars come factory with Surf boards on the roof? Owner removed the back window from the green car because he was ready to restore it. That's as far as he got.

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Michael LeCompte

Bolt pattern on these wheels seems to be 5 x 4 1/2

14 x 6's Wheels are made by GB in Italy and feel like magnesium. Any way to tell? I can't remember?

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Michael LeCompte



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/09/2008 09:22PM by pikespeakgtx.