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Sorry, but honestly, questions like yours make me laugh. Reliability of a 35 year old car?
I mean, come on. Your asking questions about a 35 year old car and using it as a daily driver. It is a 35 year old car. It is going to have issues. Do you want to deal with the issues, or are you expecting to get into an old car and have it to perform as if it just came off the lot!? If you are, go get a newer Honda or Toyota.
Is it a good car? Yes. 26,000 miles? Wow! That is as good as new in my opinion. $2700 for a 145? Eh, I don't know. For me, probably not if it has items to deal with. It just may not be worth the dough for the repairs in the end. How much rust does it have? NY plates. Been through winters here in the northeast? Do you have parts car that you can pull from? If not, are you willing to pay someone to search down parts for you? Or will you show up at the garage with parts in hand and expect them to know what to do with them? Are you going to work on the car yourself? There is great information here if you are ready to dive in. I use a '70 as a daily driver, and enjoy it. Nothing else like it around here, but something always seems to go wrong every few weeks - its old, and NE is tough on cars. I don't mind. I enjoy troubleshooting and repairing.
Snow? Sure it's good if you have snow tires and some weight in the back.
If you can't work on it yourself though, you may be in for surprises. Don't expect that the neighborhood gas station is going to have any idea how to repair an old Volvo correctly. It takes patience and time to diagnose any old car as far as I'm concerned. There is no scan tool to plug into this car. You actually have to know how to diagnose a problem.
I really apologize for being a curmudgen. But I have seen a few people end up being disappointed after buying an old Volvo. They have bought on the idea that nothing will ever go wrong, and when something does, they blame the car as being junk. Some seem to think that old Volvos are great cars (which they are) and that nothing should ever go wrong. Therefore, they expect them to perform like their 2004 Honda. That is just not going to happen, old cars break down.
What do you consider "high mileage and breakdown" in domestic cars?
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