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Hi guys, I was here a lot during the 90s, getting info. I was also very active in Swedish Bricks. A lot has changed in 25 years. We used to live in France, now it's Texas. We stopped driving 240s in 99 after our 3rd kid was born and we couldn't fit 3 car seats across the back seat. So I kinda left the Volvo community. We went to bigger vehicles. Now it's old Ford diesel pickups.
Our youngest is 18 now and I gave her a very clean 89 F250 but it developed the infamous IDI offset core cavitation-perforated cylinder wall issue at 108k miles. It will take me months to get it sleeved so I might as well TIDI it too, another big project...So now she wants a 244GL she found in Texas.
It was a 1-owner car, all receipts etc, until it blew a head gasket putting around town and the elderly owner just went the new Camry route, so common. That was 5 years ago and it's sat since. It comes with its newly-machined cylinder head, plus a spare 1985 motor (B230F now?) and tranny. Interior is in good shape and cloth, odd for a GL. All body panels straight, no rust seen.
So I may be out here again with questions. I don't remember my old login info and that email address was probably hotmail, which wound up swimming in spam so I abandoned it. Maybe an oldtimer out here remembers me.
Reno in Central Texas
Formerly about 10 Bricks, a 744TD, and a 940T that I should NEVER have sold.
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