GTFO! (lol) 

Oh yah, some crazy people own newer Volvos. REAL Volvo (740 Turbo) owner here. Are you sure you’re in the club? ;) /sarcasm

Doesn’t change your, correct, CP valuation, but I’m pretty sure that’s the original paint. “Dark Teal” is apparently very, very dark. I like it.

Pick-and-pull maybe but Corolla seats? Umm, no those are Volvo, just a different (better) color with different (better imo) upholstery. He should have done the rest of the car, but probably stopped at the front because the rest of the donor parts came from a sedan and wouldn’t fit the wagon. The wheel is a nice Momo…

You apparently are not familiar with the rabid RWD Volvo community. Those moose badges are a “thing”. Still, with the stock mill under the hood, this moose doesn’t do much prancing, and if the owner knows that much about his ride, he should know it isn’t worth 7.5k either, “classic” or not, particularly with the…

I’m not sure we really disagree, or at least not on this point: “What causes water and fuel to collect in oil is short tripping. Trips too short to heat oil up to 190+ degrees F.” I’ll back-track a little on my previous statement in that the system will trap fumes and water vapor whether it’s open or closed once you…

Not what I was talking about, but also a good example of a system that doesn’t affect the tail pipe emissions when deleted—though of course, then you’d have a different source of emissions if you vent crankcase fumes to atmosphere. FYI, stock PCV systems actually reduce the life of your oil substantially by allowing wa…

That’s pretty cool. EGR is definitely “good”, both for efficiency and emissions when properly controlled, so handling it with VVT gets the benefits without the additional complexity—well, I guess VVT is another system too, but there are additional benefits there. I’d certainly not delete an EGR system for any reason…

Oh I see. I can imagine that softens the blow a bit when the power windows fail.

EGR is largely useless and usually only came on CA emissions cars during this period—interesting fact: Pretty much all the Fed cars will still pass CA emissions at the tailpipe without EGR. It’s just another system to fail and has <almost> no purpose whatsoever. The CA mandate was related to making the catalyst last a…

Is it wrong that my first thought when I saw this is that any criminal that allows themselves to be bumped by a patrol car has chosen his or her ride poorly and/or has made poor choices in planning the escape route? (In addition to the original poor choice of criminal theft of course.) Mopeds are 2-strokes and have…

What’s “manual AC”? Like, do you have to turn the compressor with a hand crank or something?

Ummm no. Even worse, because no tent/detachable cooler, and, in my opinion, even uglier. I’d much “rather”, whatever that means in this context, have an Aztec.

Maybe somebody should stretch a Previa and add the wood trim?

But, given the “right buyer” argument, Charlie Sheen exists, therefore, “loaded” person exists, so NP?

Ummm. Pretty obviuosly ‘shopped. I see some Previa in there.

My take is that there isn’t a target audience, but it’s definitely worth $25k to the imaginary buyer that wants it.

There’s always some hemming and hawing about, regardless of whether “the market supports it” or you could “find the right buyer” would YOU personally pay this for this. And the answer here is obviously, no, no I wouldn’t, and neither would any other sane person. But if I voted that way, I’d never vote NP on anything,…

On top of a photographer, already knocked down and injured from flying debris, engine first. That’s whom I am worried about.

CP if this car was ever, even once, driven on PA highways in the winter. I’d guess it was, and that this is at least partly responsible for the long list of repairs. NP, maybe, if it never left the garage. Nah, probably CP anyway, but it’s not so crazy and I do like the car.