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&^ 240 Wagon Questions 200 1976

posted by  allen820 on  Fri Mar 28 05:11 CST 2003
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I had a '76 240 for a number of years. It was a great car, despite being the color of a Mountain Dew can! As another poster stated, there are more similarities than differences between that car and a newer 240. As I recall, mine had an injected B21 engine with auto trans, third seat, factory trailer hitch, and manuel windows.

The only significant problem I had with it was some deal where the gas tank was over-pressurizing. The good news was that the problem had been identified as a "field recall," so Volvo did the repair at no cost to me. This would have been sometime in the mid-80's, so I was very impressed that Volvo would honor a recall such as this on a car which was almost ten years old!

Anyway, other that checking the staus of the car in terms of the recall, if it has been maintained and is rust free, I would think it is a good car -- at least a fun car. Not sure what you are looking for, but even if the drive train breaks -- and at 264k you cannot expect perfection -- used repair parts are very available and not too expensive.






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