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Well, I try to be philosophical about this. The car was not saved from the crusher, but it was saved from a lunatic who might have taken on a truly hellish project car that never got finished and ended up crushed anyway. And the lunatic was also thereby saved.
Not exactly win-win, but the minimum damage in this sad situation.
It genuinely pains me to see a car that looks salvageable sitting in line to be destroyed like this. I know the vehicle will eventually be recycled, but why not spend some more time and effort and recycle it by keeping it road-worthy? If it's a pile of painted-over rust and belching smoke then yes, it's probably too late to save it, but that Volvo looked to be fixable.
@rebeldevil: Because it's California, and with the exception of VW Transporters, their idea of "junk" has nothing to do with the condition of the body.
You'd never see anything like this in a PA junkyard--if it winds up in a PA salvage yard, it's beyond repair...unless you're insane.
If I win the lottery I'm going to take a car transporter to all these scrap yards in California and start buying up everything salvageable and saving them.
@Slurp Fuzzy Homo: I was with ya right up to the whole "Monza" thing.. would you settle for Vega Kammbacks? The boneyard here in town actually has TWO of the fucking things.
@Slurp Fuzzy Homo: this idea could be a money maker - or at the very least, a gearhead community service project - for the New England Jalop contingent. I'm in VT, I think you're in NH, and I know there are a few others of us here in the northeast where the DOTs are free & easy with the winter road salt regimen. My '89 240 wagon has a healthy transmission & a square receiver hitch...
it is the same color as my welder. I bet they look good together. If that car is going to a crusher, I am running from the east coast butt naked with welder strapped to by back and some visde grips in my pocket, to come home a multi billionare of old cars. Repulsive flunking society. For real. Ponder picking up a car that bent in the middle, rust flying everywhere, lifetime parts in chunks..and still fixing it. The locale of photo is gritesque, I can feel it from here.a biblically satanic village at times. I am going to vomit my granola.
@jegmpv: How about all the folks who passed on this car for $100 at the auction? Just about every car you see on the yard in a self-service junkyard failed the $100 auction test.
@Murilee Martin: What a shame, Thats it... once my kids are grown and out of the house I'm buying a piece of land in the desert with a nice prefab house and plenty of acreage for rare cars.
@Murilee Martin: Those people should be shot in the kneecaps and then hung by their genitals.
For a hundred bucks, if I lived within 50 miles of the yard, I'd take it on. It'd be better as a Volvo parts shed, even, than as a cube destined to turn into some Korean shitbox.
Sigh. Seriously. Was the front end really that bad? I've been looking for a wagon to replace my old '66 coupe and the ratio of 2 & 4-doors to wagons on the west coast has got to be at least 10 or 20:1.
(And from the looks of that engine bay, I'd lay 10 or 20:1 odds that b18 would start right up with a fresh battery and a couple squirts of starter fluid.) Even the steelies look good!
@anaxomander: Where on the left coast are you? When I was living in Seattle ('93 - March '09), I'd say I saw at least equal numbers of wagons & sedans, maybe even give the nod to the wagons. Of course, Seattle's Scandihoovians are a practical bunch, and seem to lean towards Volvo wagons > sedans of any vintage.
Oddly, as a wagon-inclined sort, my Volvo ownership while a Seattle resident stacked up as 1 '76 244, 1 '72 145, and 1 '80 244.
@dead_elvis: Heart-click for for the Volvo love.. are you originally from VT, or one of them fromawayuhs? (Multiple vintage Volvo ownership, I think we'd let you slide anyway)
@I wish for a D/FW LeMons: The "first dumbasses" being the guys that work at the junkyard- at least in my town. This poor car (not being something worthy of respect, like a Chevy pickup), would've been violated like a 20-dollar whore by a forkloader within hours on the first day.
@.357-Bringing Back The Gold: Who says it´s dead. Just mount a carburettor on it give it juice and probably fires up right on, these B18 are very durable.
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Not exactly win-win, but the minimum damage in this sad situation.
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Damn shame.
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You'd never see anything like this in a PA junkyard--if it winds up in a PA salvage yard, it's beyond repair...unless you're insane.
If I win the lottery I'm going to take a car transporter to all these scrap yards in California and start buying up everything salvageable and saving them.
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@Slantsick: now GALVENIZED: Oh, damn. Take 'em both on, you know you want to.
@rebeldevil: And even if it ain't, but it has parts that're hard to find up here - take 'em off, load 'em on.
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Thats it... once my kids are grown and out of the house
I'm buying a piece of land in the desert with a nice prefab house and plenty of acreage for rare cars.
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For a hundred bucks, if I lived within 50 miles of the yard, I'd take it on. It'd be better as a Volvo parts shed, even, than as a cube destined to turn into some Korean shitbox.
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BTW great car. I love 60s cars that look like they're really from the 30s.
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(And from the looks of that engine bay, I'd lay 10 or 20:1 odds that b18 would start right up with a fresh battery and a couple squirts of starter fluid.) Even the steelies look good!
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Oddly, as a wagon-inclined sort, my Volvo ownership while a Seattle resident stacked up as 1 '76 244, 1 '72 145, and 1 '80 244.
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Junkyard glass tends to last until the first dumb-asses enter, at least it did in Vegas.
Morons.
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