Dans septic wannabe ovloV!
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 5:03 pm
I’m currently bored slouched on the sofa, so decided I’d finally put another of my cars on this delightful forum.
I had an 87 740 saloon a few years ago, bought for a few hundred quid just because I love old rwd Volvo’s. It turned out to be an absolutely superb car and I pretty much fell in love with the 700 models after having that. They just suit me perfectly... slow, big, comfortable, square, shitty mpg and all the other things that make a car great!
Like the total retard I am, I eventually sold it having done loads to it to pull it back from just an old banger to a really nice car it was in the end.
Having sold it I watched it leave with its new owner and felt bad about letting it go immediately and regretted selling it. Still, I had no space left and a Yank incoming, so something had to leave.
This was the car,
I spent the next couple of years without a Volvo. Something weird for me as I’d had a rwd Volvo of some sort since I was 18 (a red 340 GL). Basically, it wasn’t sitting well not having one so I started looking around for another 700.
It couldn’t be just any 700 though...
My preference having got to know these old Volvo’s so well is for the original flat fronted 700, ideally an estate this time, must be a 2.3 ‘red block’ engine with the K-jet injection system, must be an automatic (I can’t stand manuals!, especially in big wafty cars) and I’d like a good colour/interior colour combo too!
Having looked around it dawned on me that these cars were becoming more difficult to get now than they used to be! The newest flat fronted 700’s are over 30 years old now and they do seem to be disappearing quickly with their poor omgmpg and popularity for certain motor sports!
This was where I got lucky! Call it fate (or being terribly unlucky depending on your view point!), but I was talking to my sisters boyfriend one evening about old cars and he mentioned his recently deceased grandad had an old Volvo which was now sat on his driveway. It had been sat nearly three years and the family were starting to gradually clear the estate but the cars left would be likely going for scrap shortly...
I had an 87 740 saloon a few years ago, bought for a few hundred quid just because I love old rwd Volvo’s. It turned out to be an absolutely superb car and I pretty much fell in love with the 700 models after having that. They just suit me perfectly... slow, big, comfortable, square, shitty mpg and all the other things that make a car great!
Like the total retard I am, I eventually sold it having done loads to it to pull it back from just an old banger to a really nice car it was in the end.
Having sold it I watched it leave with its new owner and felt bad about letting it go immediately and regretted selling it. Still, I had no space left and a Yank incoming, so something had to leave.
This was the car,
I spent the next couple of years without a Volvo. Something weird for me as I’d had a rwd Volvo of some sort since I was 18 (a red 340 GL). Basically, it wasn’t sitting well not having one so I started looking around for another 700.
It couldn’t be just any 700 though...
My preference having got to know these old Volvo’s so well is for the original flat fronted 700, ideally an estate this time, must be a 2.3 ‘red block’ engine with the K-jet injection system, must be an automatic (I can’t stand manuals!, especially in big wafty cars) and I’d like a good colour/interior colour combo too!
Having looked around it dawned on me that these cars were becoming more difficult to get now than they used to be! The newest flat fronted 700’s are over 30 years old now and they do seem to be disappearing quickly with their poor omgmpg and popularity for certain motor sports!
This was where I got lucky! Call it fate (or being terribly unlucky depending on your view point!), but I was talking to my sisters boyfriend one evening about old cars and he mentioned his recently deceased grandad had an old Volvo which was now sat on his driveway. It had been sat nearly three years and the family were starting to gradually clear the estate but the cars left would be likely going for scrap shortly...