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    Race On! Burnt Amazon, Needlessly Complex Milano Back On The Track

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    Image of Jeremy Wilson Jeremy Wilson
    09/13/09

    In reply to Race On! Burnt Amazon, Needlessly Complex Milano Back On The Track
    I have a question - do all these spare parts fall under the $500 rule? I mean, having whole spare engines seems more like traditional racing to me (ie. big budget), which doesn't really fall under the heading of LeMons, in my opinion.
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    Image of mechimike mechimike
    09/14/09

    @Jeremy Wilson: Not when you buy parts cars for scrap value (or less; I bought a scrap volvo amazon for 1 cent once, on eBay). We're not talking new, fresh, replacements. We're talking "barely better than the crap we just took out" spares.
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    09/14/09

    @Jeremy Wilson: ...until you realize it's 5 guys of mediocre skill trying to do major overhauls while rolling in the dirt with 2/3rds of the proper tools.

    When it gets that major, you're really out of the competitive running anyway. It's mostly for glory/bragging rights/masochism.
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    Image of ☠Grяrяrяrяrя, portrait of a chickenwolfmoosepig. ☠Grяrяrяrяrя, portrait of a chickenwolfmoosepig.
    09/13/09

    In reply to Race On! Burnt Amazon, Needlessly Complex Milano Back On The Track
    You can't kill an old Volvo, even with fire!

    Getting the cranky Italian rebuilt and back on the road..mama-mia, that's amazing.
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    09/13/09

    In reply to Race On! Burnt Amazon, Needlessly Complex Milano Back On The Track
    It's-a not compli-a-cated...it's-a ART!

    Nunja you-a understand...

    /bad Italian accent
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    Image of mechimike mechimike
    09/13/09

    In reply to Race On! Burnt Amazon, Needlessly Complex Milano Back On The Track
    A very kind Corolla FX16 team gave us their whole bag of old brake hoses, and luckily, with minimal modification, one of their spares fit the mustang caliper we're using.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    09/13/09

    In reply to Race On! Burnt Amazon, Needlessly Complex Milano Back On The Track
    Go heroic fixers! Is that a stencil of a head gasket on the Milano's left flank? Hilarious.
    Off to the live feed...
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    Image of mechimike mechimike
    07/27/09

    In reply to 1966 Volvo Amazon
    Took my daily driver '68 Amazon to the local cruise yesterday, after a quick wash. Got quite a bit of attention- especially when I opened the hood! Lots of folks don't know what anything other than a chevy mouse motor looks like!

    Sweet 122 find, I'd drive this every day. Rough my ass! We were pounding dents out of the Tunachucker 122 on Saturday. _That_ car is rough!
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    07/26/09

    In reply to 1966 Volvo Amazon

    Guess I should have included a photo of the Tunachuckers Amazon:
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    Image of skaycog skaycog
    07/26/09

    In reply to 1966 Volvo Amazon

    Not a Volvo, but a real Amazon.
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    Image of Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness
    07/26/09

    In reply to 1966 Volvo Amazon

    And here's one from Portland....
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    07/26/09


    @Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness: Not a Volvo, but I'll see your 69...
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    07/26/09


    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: And raise you...
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    07/26/09


    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: And call....
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    07/26/09


    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet:
    Right back at you....
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    07/26/09

    @Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness: Oddly enough, none of those teams seemed to know or be on friendly terms with each other. At least publicly.
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    07/26/09

    In reply to 1966 Volvo Amazon
    These Volvos remind me of Fifties Hudsons, but scaled down. They never really did it for me in the looks and transportation department, but you sure can't kill them. My appreciation for Volvos sort of peaked with the 1800ES and the 164.

    No hard feelings, though. I'll post a photo when Nibbles is a little less cranky. Thought I had this down...
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    07/26/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Imagine, a '52 Hudson nose on a 145, with a 308 under the hood...

    My mind hurts.
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    07/26/09


    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet:
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    07/26/09


    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet:
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    07/26/09


    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: I've always thought of Amazons looking more like this.
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    07/26/09


    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: did someones ay 1800es? i've been spying this on in a jersey city parking lot for awhile...
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    07/26/09

    In reply to 1966 Volvo Amazon
    I've always liked how one can stem from the late '50s to the early '70s in Volvo history, from the old-fashioned-looking, cheerful Amazon to the ahead-of-its-time 14* series.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    07/26/09

    In reply to 1966 Volvo Amazon
    I'm sure there's some demented Jalopnik out there who has a detailed street map of Alameda and is tracking every single find.

    The Amazon is amazing--earnest but a little showy--they always made me think of tiny little Bentleys or something. But then, you look at them in another light, and they're just plug-ugly. Go figure.
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    Image of cgarison cgarison
    07/26/09

    In reply to 1966 Volvo Amazon
    Volvo automobiles have come a long way from their early roots. My grandfather used to say that if he wanted a car to match the road characteristics of his Mack or Kenworth that he would pick the (classic) Volvo because the Swedes had forgotten to tune the trucks out of their cars when they first developed automobiles.

    Of course, many years later, Volvo Trucks and heavy equipment is a totally different company than the car producer, but that never changed my granddad's opinion of that these cars were built like a truck. In all, that is a pretty good compliment to their pre-safety image era.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    07/26/09

    @cgarison: There was still some truck there until they switched to FWD. The turning circle in my 244 is brilliant, but the power steering isn't good for much.
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    Image of cgarison cgarison
    07/26/09

    @FP - missing Pete and the SHOwagon: Those words of Granddad echoed when my parents test drove a bunch of 240DLs back in 1989. He said those statements back in the 1960's, but Volvo did make them like they used to. And my parents decided to get much more hoonable cars instead of the 240DL in a pair of Subies which included what turned out to be my 1989 DL and Dad's 1990 Legacy Sedan. My Subie held together for 7 years and two clutches before I traded for a 96 Jeep Cherokee with my mother and father taking turns at the wheel on weekends racing the little joy on the mountain roads of eastern KY. The Legacy went through a pair of short blocks and a few transmissions before Dad traded it for a 1992 Cherokee (which I took after I wore out my Cherokee and kept until 2005 when it died after being t-boned by an Escalade.)
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    07/26/09

    In reply to 1966 Volvo Amazon
    Here's one from a couple of weeks ago up in British Columbia... and is there any way to post more then one image at a time anymore?
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    07/26/09

    In reply to 1966 Volvo Amazon
    Well fill me with lingenberries and call me Sven, we have us a real Amazon still living in freedom. Nice find, Murilee.

    Do you find that certain parking spots/streets are more ripe for DOTS material? I would think that the people that drive an Amazon would have or had other interesting artifacts of autos-from-the-past.
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