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Missing Persons 200

Good morning to all of you who have been on BB for over ten years.

The other day I was cleaning up bookmarks and chanced across one for Dave Shannon's page. Those of you with lots of history here will recognize his name. Dave was in SoCal for many years and then relocated to the mountains of CO. The page is no longer available...or at least I cannot find it.

I seem to recall that Dave resurfaced a bit on Volvo forums a year or two ago, but now seems to have disappeared. Just curious if anyone is in touch with him.

DS








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    Missing Persons 200

    Hi David,
    I am still around, a bit of a cancer scare (I'm getting old) 4 years ago but all is well.

    Haven't been around much but I do check in out of habit once in a while. Every time I do I see that there are many people here that know more than I do about the current state of keeping these old beasts running so I just read a couple of posts and move on.

    The 1800 is still up on the 4 post lift, its restoration finances were spent building my first Jeep, anything I may have had left over was spent building the 2nd one. Jeeps are far more practical up here, a real Cherokee (not the grand) is almost exactly like a 245 only it has real 4wd and can be built to go anywhere any sane person wants to go, the Wrangler takes me to the insane places ;-).

    My '88 gets dusted off every spring now, still plugging along and performs pretty well up here at 7200' with the breathing enhancements I did years ago. I do not miss the city life at all, small town living really works for me, no self service junkyards but that is the only downside.

    I let the page go last year, wasn't much money really but page views were down and I didn't care to do any updates to it. All the information on it was readily available elsewhere and it had lived its life and served its purpose so it was time to put it to bed.

    Long live the venerable bricks and the Brickboard, my best to all the Volvo nuts out there.

    Dave Shannon
    Durango CO
    '88 Volvo 240 DL
    '67 1800S
    My Jeeps








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      Good to see a post from you Dave.
      Your Volvo web page is missed.
      I have a 1994 Wrangler and love it. I'm keeping an eye out for a nice 1998 or so Cherokee. I've often thought that the Cherokee is the closest thing to a RWD Volvo, that would be easy to work on, affordable, plenty of spare parts, and able to get around in the snow easily.

      Tom








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        Hi Tom, you hit on exactly the reasons I have a Cherokee, they are the closest thing to a 245 on the planet, they even have an AW transmission in the ones with an autobox. '98-'99 are the prime years, with '00 and '01 getting a weaker low pinion D-30 front axle. Very easy to work on and parts are readily available even though the dealers have pretty much abandoned the model.
        Cheers
        Dave







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