Eating pizza today and this kid comes inside and sits with his parents and a friend. He asks his parents if Volvos are rare and that there is one right there as he's pointing at my wagon through the large window. He compared it to seeing a volkswagon bug. I started to think maybe my idea of a car lot with anything B230 or earlier along with a garage.

Of all the Volvos out there, statistically it will not be the 240s. That being said, there aren't a ton of 17 year and older vehicles still out on the highway. That doesn't mean I don't love my three 245s or my two 122 series vehicles, but I never confuse seldom seen with collectible..especially high dollar collectible.

I wouldn't put the 200 in with the Bug, but I guess the 12 years old has a different perspective.
Where I live, 200's are almost non existant. the two or three different colored ones I see, end up being are the same ones over and over. There's nothing in the BoneYards... not sure where they went, 200's were new cars once aupon a time. Why the junkyards have nothing is suprising. Well, I think they crush the cars a year or two after receiving them.
VW Bug, they never ran Great but they almost never left you thumbing a ride home either. A car you could work on. Bring back that kind of simplicity.
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"VW Bug, they never ran Great but they almost never left you thumbing a ride home either. A car you could work on. Bring back that kind of simplicity." Tony---While I love bugs and owned a number of them and split window buses, during the time I worked at a foriegn car shop (when that's what you needed if you drove one of those dang furrin cars) in the Catskill region, we had a yard full of blowed up bugs and buses left by owners who didn't know enough to downshift to third going up the grades---cylinder #3 everytime--the one hiding behind the oil cooler. Folks would get an estimate (after the tow bill) for a rebuild, catch a ride to the bus station and we'd never hear from them again. Kept us in good supply of transaxles for the locals with VW's.
As for never seeing 240's on Long Island--hey, you need to come down from the fancy shmancy north shore to the lowbrow south shore. -- Dave

Hi Dave,
My dad had a VW. it was like the Johnny Cash song,'One Piece at a time'.
It was a '60,'61, '62, '63 all rolled up into a completed car.

With a family of 6 it was tight. 6 people compensated for the very weak Heating system during the winter. But he used to pull out the Tool Bag that came with the car Who had Metric back then) and the four tools that it took to do ANYTHING on that car would fall out of teh bag and he would do, whatever he needed to.

Speaking of the Catskills. I have a friend in the Cobleskil area that has a '63. I think it was some changeover year or something because he wont part with that engine. He says it's unique. yeah, it's unique alright, for no reason it decides to not get oil up to cylinder #3. And next thing I know, I'm grabbing 'my side' of the engine to throw up on the workbench. That engine has been totally ripped down about 5 times. Flushed clean every part. Still, out of nowhere, it siezes with oil starvation in #3.
What the heck were they doing that they'd Blow them up? Air cooled, keep them moving and no problem. MAybe down shifting and screaming down the hills of teh catskills paid it's toll on them.

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