My beautiful one-owner 110,000 miles '91 Volvo 240 wagon was recently hit sideways by another car in the front of the driver's front fender. The impact was right below the blinker. On a regular car that may have been the extent of the damage, but no, Volvo had to build this one like a brick ****house. The impact caught the side of the front bumper and "pushed" the whole front end over about 4-5 inches. It wrinkled the right fender, so it looks worse than the one that was hit. It pushed the front of the frame and radiator over about 3 inches, but the damage doesn't appear to have gone further back than the cross member. The left frame member is pushed over&up. The right member is pushed over&down. The radiator core was spared any damage, as was the hood. It pushed the left strut tower to just touching the master cylindar, which was about 1" clearance before. This happened away from home, so I wired the radiator secure and drove 200 miles home--without a problem. I was driving at 65mph without any front end shimmy.

My question is this. Do you think the car is salvagable? Is a frame pull capable of correcting that much damage? I could replace the body parts, but what about the inner fenders being so out of position? I've already got another car, so I won't spend the money(much more than the car is worth)at a body shop. What do you think? Thanks.