Saw an H-reg Volvo 240/260 for sale beside the road.
It had the large, square headlamps, with washers and wipers, so it might be a decent spec with a biggish engine.
Saloon, which probably knocks it back a bit, in bright red.
Looked clean and tidy, parked outside a nice house with a 10-reg C30 on the drive.
The price?
A mere £250.
Worth every penny in my view.
What do you think?
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Well saloons might not be as sought after, but they make better buys in general as usually not done the hard work the estates are almost always bought for. You usually find they were owned by doctors etc.
If it has a decent MOT then yea, good price, these rarely go for nothing, people still recognise their build and longevity. Id have had one if I could afford 25 mpg.
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It's certainly sounds a better bet than a rust riddled Ital with a tattered interior (MoT till Oct)that someone in the next village to me is optimistically hoping to get the same sum for.
My BiL loves big Volvos and he's just bought a very clean and smooth running Estate on K plate. On past experience he reckons the 260k on the clock means it's almost run in.
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I learned to drive in my dad's 240 saloon around 1975 when it was more or less new. Always had a soft spot for them ever since. There is a metal lamp post in Edinburgh which to this day still has a ding in it from when I hit it with that car. The car was fine. My dad was temporarily a bit irritated about it of course......
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I learnt to drive in a Volvo 144(1972) and after i passed my test at 17(1980 something) i insured it 3rd party,fire and theft for £350.
I don't think many 17 year olds would be able to afford to insure a 2.0 litre Volvo today.
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The family predecessor to the 240 I learned on was my father's 144 from 1972 I think, "J" suffice anyway. I checked it out on the insurance database and it seems to be still going about. I remember chatting to someone on HJ about it years ago and I'm fairly sure it had turned up in his family at one point. It was a particullarly horrid shade of yellow with a black vinyl roof.
There was a story behind the roof in that it had been in for servicing at the the old Buchanans Volvo dealership in Edinburgh. They had needed to keep it overnight and had coincidentally suffered a break in. During the course of that some cars had been vandalised by having rude words paint sprayed on them. My dad's got something really non PC written on its roof. Of course the garage offered to re-spray the car but dad fancied a vinyl roof and agreed to that as compensation. I saw the car still sporting its roof about ten years ago and had to smile at the almost certain knowledge that its now proud owner knew nothing of the lewd grafitti above his head.
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At the risk of drifting my own thread, I reckon vinyl roofs are under-rated.
They provide a bit of contrast and it's a bit less paint to polish or get scratched.
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.....and handy for disguising rude artwork if required.
For a bit of real drift my computer screen has just attracted a load of midges crawling all over it !!!
NURSE !
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...a load of midges crawling all over it !!!...
Thought you'd be pleased - remind you of the auld country.
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These are clearly limp wristed English midges. Proper ones wouldn't waste their time on anything which didn't have a pulse.
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...limp wristed English midges...
One or two fliegels in the caravan - hope nothing's died in here that I don't know about.
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>> At the risk of drifting my own thread, I reckon vinyl roofs are under-rated.
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>> They provide a bit of contrast and it's a bit less paint to polish or get scratched.
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They also make the interior quieter especially if they have padding underneath them.
I had a top quality version on my 1600E that was properly stitched.
When, after many years of ownership, I sold the car, the vinyl roof was still in perfect condition , unlike the rest of body work.
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Worth every penny? - Stuu
