83' Turbo
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- Joined
- Jul 19, 2005
- Location
- Raleigh, NC
Well this car was a local craigslist find that I intended to buy, cleanup a bit, then flip for a nice profit but after getting it home that quickly changed. While talking with the previous owner trying to work out a deal he told me that his wife and him had owned the car since early 1994. They finally put the car up for sale because they had run out of driveway room and just bought their 16 year old son a car so the Volvo had to go. He went on to tell me his wife wanted to give it to her brother, and quietly under his breath he told me that wasn't going to happen because he loved the car and didn't want to watch his brother in law run it into the ground . After that he went on to say he wanted the car to go to an enthusiast and we were able to work out a more than fair price for it which I was more than happy with. Oh yea, she has 138k on the clock!
Although the paint was 100% oxidized I could tell that this was a clean car underneath. After making the deal with the previous owner he walked out with all the service records from 1994 to 2012 (the car hadn't been driven for the last 3 years) along with all the orginal Volvo keys. After a few years of sitting the old girl started right up and I drove her home with no OD smiling the whole way. This is how the car was when I arrived at the previous owners home...
Here are a couple shots of a little wax layed by hand when I got home to get an idea of what I was working with...
The first step was to get the buffer wheel out and go to work. After about 8 hours or so I stepped back and fell in love with the car. This is when I decided I had a new DD .
Now that the paint was looking like it should again, it was time to tackle the extremely faded trim...
After...
Next on the list was to get the engine bay cleaned up. This was another great part of the car! Everything under the hood was still OEM Volvo and untouched. Even cleaned up the rusty bolts...
Trunk seemed to be never used along with the spare and the jack...
Although the paint was 100% oxidized I could tell that this was a clean car underneath. After making the deal with the previous owner he walked out with all the service records from 1994 to 2012 (the car hadn't been driven for the last 3 years) along with all the orginal Volvo keys. After a few years of sitting the old girl started right up and I drove her home with no OD smiling the whole way. This is how the car was when I arrived at the previous owners home...
Here are a couple shots of a little wax layed by hand when I got home to get an idea of what I was working with...
The first step was to get the buffer wheel out and go to work. After about 8 hours or so I stepped back and fell in love with the car. This is when I decided I had a new DD .
Now that the paint was looking like it should again, it was time to tackle the extremely faded trim...
After...
Next on the list was to get the engine bay cleaned up. This was another great part of the car! Everything under the hood was still OEM Volvo and untouched. Even cleaned up the rusty bolts...
Trunk seemed to be never used along with the spare and the jack...
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