Here's what next!!!

And we still love our Volvo's

Obviously when "They" designed the first Volvo it was like God creating the Garden of Eden.

There had to be one thing in the Garden that could screw up the perfection created or it would be Heaven not Eden - Right.

Well "They" at Volvo said " Lets do a heater thing so that we will really know who loves us and who doesn't - and besides we have to give some people a reason to buy all those other brands of cars on the road.

So here we are - the hardcore remnant, happily chugging along in our 200 series bricks,

smiling because our 1980 brick is worth more than a 1992 Topaz and rides better and besides -

no except a Volvonian has a #$*%@%$ clue how old our beloved Brick is anyway.

So my friend - you have a number of options.

1.) Take it to a volvo service garage and pay the huge coin for a new fan motor install (3/4 of that big bill is labor). This will have you cursing teh high cost of owning a volvo but you will have QUIET heat for years.

2.) Buy a new fan motor and spend one or two saturdays saving a big labor bill - getting intimate with the inner dash of your beloved brick. (yes intimate - by the time you're done you will feel like you've been *$&#%*&'ed)

3.) Go down to your nearest auto wrecker/ recycler/ u-pick and get a used fan motor for half the cost of a new one - spend the one or two saturdays the same as above, and then REALLY CURSE!!! when the &*#%#$^(*&#$ old fan motor craps out in 6 months cuz you had no idea it came out of a brick OLDER than yours.

Then you are faced with selecting another choice from this list. Hopefully- you are like most of us Volvonians and only try a shortcut ONCE!!!

4.) Take a real hard look at your Brick - write down all the things it needs and what is good on it - go and buy another one that has a good fan motor but needs alot of stuff that is good on yours (little things like transmission, motor, driveshaft, - nothing big). Put all the good things from yours onto the other one and drive IT. This could be easier than

trying to replace the fan motor on your Brick.

5.) Decide that this is the one thing you can not live with - that the powers that be at Volvo have pushed it too far - and you go and buy some other brand.

And every time you see a Brick go by, you feel the gnawing in your craw, a lump in your thrat, and you think of "those fanatical vovlo owners" . And you start to dream about all the things you loved about your old Brick that your present manufacturer just hasn't figured out yet, (as you drive sitting with your bottom almost on the floor).

Five maybe seven years later - you're ready. You come across a reasonable deal on a Brick. Not near as fancy or flashy as as your current brand Z ride - but as soon as you sit in it - you realize you never should have left.

You buy it and are once again a member of "THE REMNANT" a true VOLVONIAN, once again chugging down the road smug in the knowledge that no one really knows the age of my Brick except my own kind.

Until that fateful day... what is that little rasping noise coming from the dash? Did something fall down the defrost slot??

OH GOD NO!!!!!!!!!!!! Its the *#&%$%^#$%#% fan motor!!!!!!!!!

Enjoy and HAPPY BRIKIN

Gord