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I don't know what the market is like where you are at but here in So. Cal I can buy a lot more car for a thousand bucks. I would not offer him a dime more than $500.00 and that is if you can't live without it. Diesels do not command any kind of premium with the small exception of being able to stuff a V8 in them and not worry about passing smog, yet. I bought one for my daughter that was in a damn sight better shape than the one you described and I think I paid something like $175.00 for it. When it was said and done I still ended up doing the following to it: head gasket, glow plugs, timing belts,drive belts, p/s rack, brakes, timing pump check and adjust, blower fan, central locking repair, fix a couple of power windows, rear coil springs,rear trailing arm bushings, rear main seal, remanufactured torque converter, and numerous other little things here and there. Now mind you I did some of this stuff right up front and the rest got worked in over the course of the next 12 months or so. This car was very clean when I got it and was top of the line with every option available when it sold new in '82 and it still needed what would equate to a couple thousand dollars worth of work if you had to pay someone to do. My one daughter recently sold it to my other daughter for $600.00 and everyone seemed to agree that it was a decent deal all the way around, but of course the deal went down with the added bonus that it comes with a 24 hour on call factory trained Volvo technician to boot. "Hey Daddy......."
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