I love elderly Volvos. I’ve had three or four over the years: a black 240 GLT and a 1.6 litre Amazon (very rare, apparently) are the ones I remember most fondly. Great cars, much better than modern equivalents. I’m sort of on the lookout for a 740 turbo with the overdrive gearbox, if anyone knows of one going cheap …
My current mid life crisis mobile. No hairdressing equipment is left in this vehicle overnight.
I watched Top Gear on Dave yesterday and Hammond bought a 530 BMW whilst Jeremy bought a 600SL Mercedes for less than 7k. Those are the kinds of motors I hanker after, not the BMW, but a V12 Merc or such like.
It will go alongside the Vauxhall Sports Tourer with a 2.0 diesel that we run now. 
DrivingMissDaisy:
windrush:
My current road car on Rest and be Thankful, in my ownership for 14 years and counting!
Pete.
A Volvo with a wobble box and a tipper in the avatar? That’s some combination! Split personality?
Ah well, I had retired from driving trucks by then! 
We didn’t ALL teararse around you know, only when we needed to which was most of the time actually I guess? 
I think the old Volvo will be going this year, 24 years old and never failed a MOT…yet!
Pete.
windrush:
DrivingMissDaisy:
windrush:
My current road car on Rest and be Thankful, in my ownership for 14 years and counting!
Pete.
A Volvo with a wobble box and a tipper in the avatar? That’s some combination! Split personality?
Ah well, I had retired from driving trucks by then!
Pete.
That’s served you well Pete. How many miles on the clock ?
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
That’s served you well Pete. How many miles on the clock ?
Cheers Dave.
Ah well Dave, that’s a good question as the odometer hasn’t worked for at least three years and the speedometer only works when it feels like it! It has 189 thou on the clock but I would guess at around the 250,000 mark now, I re-engined it a few years ago (the ‘new’ engine had about 70,000 on it) so this engine will now have done around the 120,000 mile region I imagine. To be honest it normally only does about four miles a week shopping as I use my van, but I have been travelling the 20+ mile daily round trip to the Hospital since mid January so is knocking a few up at present! We really need something a little easier for the missus to get into and out of now, something like a Partner or Berlingo, but we will never get a motor as good as that Volvo has been alas!
Pete.
windrush:
Dave the Renegade:
That’s served you well Pete. How many miles on the clock ?
Cheers Dave.Ah well Dave, that’s a good question as the odometer hasn’t worked for at least three years and the speedometer only works when it feels like it!
Pete.
hiya,
Yes Pete those Partner and Berlingo jobbies are spot on the seats are just about “bum”
height when you back on to them making getting in and out much easier, a pal of ours
has one because He finds it difficult getting in and out of a normal saloon or hatchback
I quite like them too and wouldn’t mind one as a caravan “tractor” the diesel version is
quite a bit less thirsty than my low mileage Toyota Corolla (42,000) on a 55 plate which
is heavy on the road tax as well £260 a year because of the high emissions, it does bob
on a bit though and being a two peddler doesn’t help with the fuel economy, but I don’t
use it very much so can live with it being thirsty,
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Yes Pete those Partner and Berlingo jobbies are spot on the seats are just about “bum”
height when you back on to them making getting in and out much easier, a pal of ours
has one because He finds it difficult getting in and out of a normal saloon or hatchback
I quite like them too and wouldn’t mind one as a caravan “tractor” the diesel version is
quite a bit less thirsty than my low mileage Toyota Corolla (42,000) on a 55 plate which
is heavy on the road tax as well £260 a year because of the high emissions, it does bob
on a bit though and being a two peddler doesn’t help with the fuel economy, but I don’t
use it very much so can live with it being thirsty,
thanks harry, long retired.
Does the Toyota do as much on a litre of fuel as Harry Gill does on a litre of single malt Harry?
Pete.
windrush:
harry_gill:
hiya,
Yes Pete those Partner and Berlingo jobbies are spot on the seats are just about “bum”
height when you back on to them making getting in and out much easier, a pal of ours
has one because He finds it difficult getting in and out of a normal saloon or hatchback
I quite like them too and wouldn’t mind one as a caravan “tractor” the diesel version is
quite a bit less thirsty than my low mileage Toyota Corolla (42,000) on a 55 plate which
is heavy on the road tax as well £260 a year because of the high emissions, it does bob
on a bit though and being a two peddler doesn’t help with the fuel economy, but I don’t
use it very much so can live with it being thirsty,
thanks harry, long retired.Does the Toyota do as much on a litre of fuel as Harry Gill does on a litre of single malt Harry?
Pete.
hiya,
Me, litre of single malt = eight hours sleep.
Toyota, litre of unleaded = about six miles.
thanks harry, long retired.
Here’s mine not had the beemer long, had the vw t4 before it wish I never sold it.
Oh very nice Jim, that will be a wee bit different frae the LPG Skoda. Eddie.
lol…aye at 16mpg …lucky fuels a bit cheaper.5th wheel fitted as well.
£100 bought me this with 4 months mot and 2 months tax paintwork is shocking but 2.0 gti goes well 
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