sim
Mere Drab Mob
- Joined
- Jun 12, 2010
- Location
- Port Moody, BC
Mine is a '76, and came with a Maaco paintjob and quad squares and later manual mirrors, but I'm pretty sure it was an update by the previous owner. Part of what makes me shy about a swapped car comes from buying the V8 car- a swap someone else did. There was some work done by whoever did the swap on my '76 that makes me shake my head. Keep in mind, I'm a hack. It's bad when I can look and go "Wow, that's dumb."
Interesting. A quick search for owners manuals seems to indicate
that your car did come with quad rounds.
I hear what you are saying about swaps. I've doubled the
horsepower in my wagon, and reduced the resale value to scrap
price. $4000 worth of paint would likely add a few hundred bucks
to the resale. Just means I need to keep it.
Mark said:Agreed on that. Speaking of which... remember the rear door I was hoping to grab? Got two? Stan got hit and run on the driver's side rear door a couple of months ago so both sides matchsim said:Solid sheetmetal and nice paint is worth quite a few bucks on a seventies 240 though. I'm getting on the wrong side of that lately.
M.
I do have two rear doors. I need to hack out some metal from the
trailing edges, so I'd need the "cores" in return.
I'm not sure when the latches changed, but I suspect it was
pre-'78. Plan for some adaptation. (Or research me wrong). There
is a Volvo TSB about upgrading to the newer latches out there.
If you want to come by and do the swap here at some point, I'd be
happy to help.
I haven't worked on that project in months, but it is on my
"critical path", so it would be better to do this sooner.
I should go work on that thing now...