SjefkeHuppelkei
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- Joined
- Dec 5, 2017
- Location
- Netherlands
Hello everybody!
Picked up this project about half a year ago and it is finally time to share it with you guys!
The history of the car probably goes way back, but the things I know about it are limited to the last 10 years. It's originally an English P1800ES and therefore RHD. The guy I bought it from brought it from England to the Netherlands around 10 years ago and since then took all the things he needed for restoring his ES. He kept the remainings in his shed ever since and that's where I came in and bought it as my project.
The love for Volvo's has only begun a couple of years ago when I first bought a C30, which was chipped and slightly modified (Bilstein B6's, PUR bushings all around etc). A really nice looking and fun to drive car. Too bad it didn't last long, after a year the timing belt shattered and the engine was gone. After this I bought a '66 Amazon 2 door, '99 V70 T5 (daily) and then the ES. For this project, a dirt-cheap totalled 2001 S60 T5 was purchased.
The main goal for the project is to get a nice (LHD) sleeper with enough torque to get around in traffic. And maybe win a couple of traffic light sprints .
Some of the things I definitely wanted was to keep it all Volvo parts, to start with a B5234t with an M90, drive shaft from a 960, brakes from the S60 etc.
Enough talking, here are the pictures of the day I purchased the ES:
Found like this:
Fresh out of the barn, seeing sunlight for the first time in years:
Together with the V70:
Donor car:
Check also instagram for small updates and pictures: https://www.instagram.com/volvo_p1800es_t5/
Hope you guys will appreciate this project and will keep you posted! Cheers
Picked up this project about half a year ago and it is finally time to share it with you guys!
The history of the car probably goes way back, but the things I know about it are limited to the last 10 years. It's originally an English P1800ES and therefore RHD. The guy I bought it from brought it from England to the Netherlands around 10 years ago and since then took all the things he needed for restoring his ES. He kept the remainings in his shed ever since and that's where I came in and bought it as my project.
The love for Volvo's has only begun a couple of years ago when I first bought a C30, which was chipped and slightly modified (Bilstein B6's, PUR bushings all around etc). A really nice looking and fun to drive car. Too bad it didn't last long, after a year the timing belt shattered and the engine was gone. After this I bought a '66 Amazon 2 door, '99 V70 T5 (daily) and then the ES. For this project, a dirt-cheap totalled 2001 S60 T5 was purchased.
The main goal for the project is to get a nice (LHD) sleeper with enough torque to get around in traffic. And maybe win a couple of traffic light sprints .
Some of the things I definitely wanted was to keep it all Volvo parts, to start with a B5234t with an M90, drive shaft from a 960, brakes from the S60 etc.
Enough talking, here are the pictures of the day I purchased the ES:
Found like this:
Fresh out of the barn, seeing sunlight for the first time in years:
Together with the V70:
Donor car:
Check also instagram for small updates and pictures: https://www.instagram.com/volvo_p1800es_t5/
Hope you guys will appreciate this project and will keep you posted! Cheers
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