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I’m more concerned for that poor trapped dog 

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The Volvo is proving a venerable camping steed this week. I even treated it to some photos around Elan Valley.
 

Tidy VVC swapped Metro anyone?

Tidy VVC swapped Metro anyone?

Tidy VVC swapped Metro anyone?

Tidy VVC swapped Metro anyone?

Y tho?

Tidy VVC swapped Metro anyone?

Tidy VVC swapped Metro anyone?

Tidy VVC swapped Metro anyone?

Y tho?

Y tho?

No fucking about there then @Fabergé Greggs Ace vid

Treated the 240 to a full 7 quid wash.  It showed me where all the scratches are.

We were out a run so we dropped in to see the previous owners in Arbroath as recommended by @Saabnut.  This is Simon with the car where it was when I first saw it (there's now a container in its parking spot).

He invited us round to the house so his son (who was originally left the car by his granddad) could have a look. I encouraged him to have a wee shot as well. He was well impressed, so hopefully this  may have dropped some seeds of boxy RWD Volvo appreciation!
A major birthday was reached.

It's also been pressed into service in engine dismantling and parts carrying duties.

 
What a bloody handsome thing it is!

Possessions make you vulnerable, as they say 

This last couple of years has seen a stark change in my priorities and values, and within these last 6 months especially I've slimmed my fleet down to 3 cars. Why? The future of having my unit/storage is looking tenuous, I don't actually enjoy driving, I cycle more miles a year than I drive, I'm pretty environmentally minded, gone vegan (shoot me) and now feel driving for the hell of it just isn't a good thing. Frankly hobby cars just don't seem good value to me any more, insomuch as the time, hassle and expense of keeping them is no longer worth it to me. £100 would go further if invested in either my other interests (cycling, cooking, reading, podcasts etc), or in charitable causes.
Now my 940 is my "car car", and as near to a daily as I get despite not driving every day. So I don;t want to sell that any time soon. The AX is going to serve as a stop gap in the coming months, whilst Volvo is undergoing work, then I will probably sell that too. Which leaves my 100e.
I bought it in 2015 when I was 21, working away so earning good money, and brimming enthusiasm. I spent 3 years Pinto swapping it, fitting Mk1/2 Escort steering, GRP4 front suspension, TCA's and heavy duty crossmember, converted 2.8 Capri Bilsteins to coilovers, fitting Sierra type 9, fabricating a trans tunnel for it, fitting 105e axle on adjustable shocks and lowering blocks. Y'know, all the good bits.I did all the work on it myself, learnt a tonne and (at the time) enjoyed the build process.
Its been a hoot since getting it on the road in spring 2018. It drives very very well, goes like the hammers of fuck, handles terrifically, sounds good and looks just how I envisaged. Driven up to Santa Pod in a it a couple of times, pootled to the shops in it, and attended breakfast meets and shows just to piss of the purists. I always have said its the "car I'd never sell", because it never would be worth as much to someone else as it would to me.





But I've just not driven it recently, maybe twice in the last 6 months. Even for winter that's much less than previous years. And last summer I didn't use it as much as I should either. I just can't get in the mood to use it nowadays. It's not stepped out of line, or pissed me off and been relegated to a corner or anything like that. I haven't got bored of it specifically either, but more bored of "fun cars" in general I think. I keep it 8 miles from my house, and when the weathers nice I sooner reach for my bike than reach for the 100e keys and drive there to take it out. The urge to drive a "head turner" seems even more shallow and unappealing than ever to me now. It juts doesn;t make me happy any more. Not really, not in the true life-fulfilling sense of the word. I feel it's going to get harder and harder and to run cars like this in the coming years, with fuel prices and E5 and taxation etc. It's like a plane taking a nosedive: its all only going one way, its just up to you when you jump out.
So toying with selling it, and faced with the dilemma of how hard I should stick to the "never sell" proviso I made for it years ago, because I'm acutely aware this is a perfect example of how narrow-minded, inflexible stubbornness can get the better us. I am not going to delude myself into thinking I need to keep it to validate the good times and fun I've had before with it either. I believe lives about the doing and the being, rather than the having and the owning.
So who else here has sold a car they swore they never would? Did you feel regret weigh on your shoulders, or relief lift from them?

Having owned lots of fastish cars including a 350bhp impreza just now, the one I miss the most ans should never have sold was the slowest. If anyone ever sees it please let me know, I would love to get it back:
 
 
 
 

Got the vegan bit in the first paragraph ! Nice nice 😂

This last couple of years has seen a stark change in my priorities and values, and within these last 6 months especially I've slimmed my fleet down to 3 cars. Why? The future of having my unit/storage is looking tenuous, I don't actually enjoy driving, I cycle more miles a year than I drive, I'm pretty environmentally minded, gone vegan (shoot me) and now feel driving for the hell of it just isn't a good thing. Frankly hobby cars just don't seem good value to me any more, insomuch as the time, hassle and expense of keeping them is no longer worth it to me. £100 would go further if invested in either my other interests (cycling, cooking, reading, podcasts etc), or in charitable causes.
Now my 940 is my "car car", and as near to a daily as I get despite not driving every day. So I don;t want to sell that any time soon. The AX is going to serve as a stop gap in the coming months, whilst Volvo is undergoing work, then I will probably sell that too. Which leaves my 100e.
I bought it in 2015 when I was 21, working away so earning good money, and brimming enthusiasm. I spent 3 years Pinto swapping it, fitting Mk1/2 Escort steering, GRP4 front suspension, TCA's and heavy duty crossmember, converted 2.8 Capri Bilsteins to coilovers, fitting Sierra type 9, fabricating a trans tunnel for it, fitting 105e axle on adjustable shocks and lowering blocks. Y'know, all the good bits.I did all the work on it myself, learnt a tonne and (at the time) enjoyed the build process.
Its been a hoot since getting it on the road in spring 2018. It drives very very well, goes like the hammers of fuck, handles terrifically, sounds good and looks just how I envisaged. Driven up to Santa Pod in a it a couple of times, pootled to the shops in it, and attended breakfast meets and shows just to piss of the purists. I always have said its the "car I'd never sell", because it never would be worth as much to someone else as it would to me.





But I've just not driven it recently, maybe twice in the last 6 months. Even for winter that's much less than previous years. And last summer I didn't use it as much as I should either. I just can't get in the mood to use it nowadays. It's not stepped out of line, or pissed me off and been relegated to a corner or anything like that. I haven't got bored of it specifically either, but more bored of "fun cars" in general I think. I keep it 8 miles from my house, and when the weathers nice I sooner reach for my bike than reach for the 100e keys and drive there to take it out. The urge to drive a "head turner" seems even more shallow and unappealing than ever to me now. It juts doesn;t make me happy any more. Not really, not in the true life-fulfilling sense of the word. I feel it's going to get harder and harder and to run cars like this in the coming years, with fuel prices and E5 and taxation etc. It's like a plane taking a nosedive: its all only going one way, its just up to you when you jump out.
So toying with selling it, and faced with the dilemma of how hard I should stick to the "never sell" proviso I made for it years ago, because I'm acutely aware this is a perfect example of how narrow-minded, inflexible stubbornness can get the better us. I am not going to delude myself into thinking I need to keep it to validate the good times and fun I've had before with it either. I believe lives about the doing and the being, rather than the having and the owning.
So who else here has sold a car they swore they never would? Did you feel regret weigh on your shoulders, or relief lift from them?

This last couple of years has seen a stark change in my priorities and values, and within these last 6 months especially I've slimmed my fleet down to 3 cars. Why? The future of having my unit/storage is looking tenuous, I don't actually enjoy driving, I cycle more miles a year than I drive, I'm pretty environmentally minded, gone vegan (shoot me) and now feel driving for the hell of it just isn't a good thing. Frankly hobby cars just don't seem good value to me any more, insomuch as the time, hassle and expense of keeping them is no longer worth it to me. £100 would go further if invested in either my other interests (cycling, cooking, reading, podcasts etc), or in charitable causes.
Now my 940 is my "car car", and as near to a daily as I get despite not driving every day. So I don;t want to sell that any time soon. The AX is going to serve as a stop gap in the coming months, whilst Volvo is undergoing work, then I will probably sell that too. Which leaves my 100e.
I bought it in 2015 when I was 21, working away so earning good money, and brimming enthusiasm. I spent 3 years Pinto swapping it, fitting Mk1/2 Escort steering, GRP4 front suspension, TCA's and heavy duty crossmember, converted 2.8 Capri Bilsteins to coilovers, fitting Sierra type 9, fabricating a trans tunnel for it, fitting 105e axle on adjustable shocks and lowering blocks. Y'know, all the good bits.I did all the work on it myself, learnt a tonne and (at the time) enjoyed the build process.
Its been a hoot since getting it on the road in spring 2018. It drives very very well, goes like the hammers of fuck, handles terrifically, sounds good and looks just how I envisaged. Driven up to Santa Pod in a it a couple of times, pootled to the shops in it, and attended breakfast meets and shows just to piss of the purists. I always have said its the "car I'd never sell", because it never would be worth as much to someone else as it would to me.





But I've just not driven it recently, maybe twice in the last 6 months. Even for winter that's much less than previous years. And last summer I didn't use it as much as I should either. I just can't get in the mood to use it nowadays. It's not stepped out of line, or pissed me off and been relegated to a corner or anything like that. I haven't got bored of it specifically either, but more bored of "fun cars" in general I think. I keep it 8 miles from my house, and when the weathers nice I sooner reach for my bike than reach for the 100e keys and drive there to take it out. The urge to drive a "head turner" seems even more shallow and unappealing than ever to me now. It juts doesn;t make me happy any more. Not really, not in the true life-fulfilling sense of the word. I feel it's going to get harder and harder and to run cars like this in the coming years, with fuel prices and E5 and taxation etc. It's like a plane taking a nosedive: its all only going one way, its just up to you when you jump out.
So toying with selling it, and faced with the dilemma of how hard I should stick to the "never sell" proviso I made for it years ago, because I'm acutely aware this is a perfect example of how narrow-minded, inflexible stubbornness can get the better us. I am not going to delude myself into thinking I need to keep it to validate the good times and fun I've had before with it either. I believe lives about the doing and the being, rather than the having and the owning.
So who else here has sold a car they swore they never would? Did you feel regret weigh on your shoulders, or relief lift from them?

This last couple of years has seen a stark change in my priorities and values, and within these last 6 months especially I've slimmed my fleet down to 3 cars. Why? The future of having my unit/storage is looking tenuous, I don't actually enjoy driving, I cycle more miles a year than I drive, I'm pretty environmentally minded, gone vegan (shoot me) and now feel driving for the hell of it just isn't a good thing. Frankly hobby cars just don't seem good value to me any more, insomuch as the time, hassle and expense of keeping them is no longer worth it to me. £100 would go further if invested in either my other interests (cycling, cooking, reading, podcasts etc), or in charitable causes.
Now my 940 is my "car car", and as near to a daily as I get despite not driving every day. So I don;t want to sell that any time soon. The AX is going to serve as a stop gap in the coming months, whilst Volvo is undergoing work, then I will probably sell that too. Which leaves my 100e.
I bought it in 2015 when I was 21, working away so earning good money, and brimming enthusiasm. I spent 3 years Pinto swapping it, fitting Mk1/2 Escort steering, GRP4 front suspension, TCA's and heavy duty crossmember, converted 2.8 Capri Bilsteins to coilovers, fitting Sierra type 9, fabricating a trans tunnel for it, fitting 105e axle on adjustable shocks and lowering blocks. Y'know, all the good bits.I did all the work on it myself, learnt a tonne and (at the time) enjoyed the build process.
Its been a hoot since getting it on the road in spring 2018. It drives very very well, goes like the hammers of fuck, handles terrifically, sounds good and looks just how I envisaged. Driven up to Santa Pod in a it a couple of times, pootled to the shops in it, and attended breakfast meets and shows just to piss of the purists. I always have said its the "car I'd never sell", because it never would be worth as much to someone else as it would to me.





But I've just not driven it recently, maybe twice in the last 6 months. Even for winter that's much less than previous years. And last summer I didn't use it as much as I should either. I just can't get in the mood to use it nowadays. It's not stepped out of line, or pissed me off and been relegated to a corner or anything like that. I haven't got bored of it specifically either, but more bored of "fun cars" in general I think. I keep it 8 miles from my house, and when the weathers nice I sooner reach for my bike than reach for the 100e keys and drive there to take it out. The urge to drive a "head turner" seems even more shallow and unappealing than ever to me now. It juts doesn;t make me happy any more. Not really, not in the true life-fulfilling sense of the word. I feel it's going to get harder and harder and to run cars like this in the coming years, with fuel prices and E5 and taxation etc. It's like a plane taking a nosedive: its all only going one way, its just up to you when you jump out.
So toying with selling it, and faced with the dilemma of how hard I should stick to the "never sell" proviso I made for it years ago, because I'm acutely aware this is a perfect example of how narrow-minded, inflexible stubbornness can get the better us. I am not going to delude myself into thinking I need to keep it to validate the good times and fun I've had before with it either. I believe lives about the doing and the being, rather than the having and the owning.
So who else here has sold a car they swore they never would? Did you feel regret weigh on your shoulders, or relief lift from them?

Still bitterly regret selling my Viva HC.


Owned for eight years - and the first car of mine to actually make it back onto the road.
I was ludicrously pleased to be bombing around in this car at the age of 18. I put a huge amount of work into it.

I even took it to the South of France in summer 1999.

Which went about as well as you might expect. The head gasket went literally ten minutes after leaving the house, followed soon after by the starter solenoid - but I still drove it several thousand miles, with the heater going full blast and stopping every hour or so to refill with coolant.

With a replacement engine lobbed in afterwards, I swore I'd never sell it - but life overtook things. After replacing the wings and rear arches, and treating it to a full respray, it was horribly vandalised in Brighton and after moving it back to Northern Ireland and trying to pull together funds to get it fixed, I lost storage twice in quick succession - and then I moved to Australia (true love).
My father accepted £200 for it. Old Vauxhalls were worth fuck-all then.
Once I came back from Australia (yeah, don't ask) I spent years trying to it track down again.
Only a short while ago I learned that it had ended up with @junkyarddog of this parish - found behind a garage in Co. Tipperary, and sadly in a terrible state.
It yielded some spares, but ultimately it was beyond saving.
Not a day goes by when I don't bitterly regret giving it up.
I'll never be able to afford one now - much as I'd love another 2-dr HC.
Probably the biggest automotive regret of my life.

I've had two "never sell" cars, my 205 and the 850 Saloon I got from my dad. The 850 was one of the few tangible things I had to remind me of him. In the end I replaced it with an 850 estate on the basis he'd have supported it because the new one was in a spec he'd have bought himself. I've never regretted it, even after all of the work I put in to keep it on the road. At the end of the day the estate is more practical.
The 205 though is a difficult one. I've had it since 2016, the year I passed my test. It was the first car I bought myself. I have a lot of good memories with it and when I sit in it it just feels right. Progress getting it back on the road is slow though, because every thing I fix seems to throw up two more problems. I'm now torn about what to do with it once it's back on the road. If I sell it I have to accept I'll never find another one like it, but maybe that's alright? I don't really enjoy driving anymore, so what's the point? Maybe I'll enjoy driving it when I'm done, I don't know. Maybe I'll have it as a summer daily, that would make some amount of sense. A big consideration though is how much it costs me to have somewhere to store and work on it, it's a not inconsiderable amount of money, which is a bit of a problem given I'm trying to save for a deposit for a house.
Dad once told me it's a bad idea to get attached to cars. He was probably right.