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You can put anything you want in the dash of one of these. if you have a tape deck in it, your's has probably been modified already. My speakers were never so good, but the stock speakers are trash. Wire up some 4" units in your door panel (can only fit in the front near the top of the panel). My 145 had 9" oval speakers in the rear cargo area walls. one in the metal spare tire cover, and one in the masonite right side panel. I tell you, as long as you've got a car full of holes, your speakers will never sound very good. Too much road noise.
Anyway, I had a tape deck in the dash and a portable CD player setup that was held to the drive tunnel by velcro. worked great for an adapted setup. I put an amp behind the center console, but it never looked or sounded very good. I also tried it inside the glove box, but that was troublesome as well. Later 140s had a much more logical center console than the 72s.
BTW. My 145 was driven off a gravel road into a drainage ditch in a farm field (by a friend who was a "learner") It bent the fender (a little) and put us into a hole deeper than the car was long. Even sitting at 60 degree front angle and a 25 degree side angle, the car fired right up tried to pull us out. If its rear tires had both been touching ground, I think it would have hauled us back out. A farmer finally happened by (hours later) and pulled us out. I drove it home, pulled the fender back out and she was perfect again.
The only time I couldn't get the car started in cold weather was when it was glazed with nearly 1 cm of ice, It wouldn't start because I couldn't get inside of the car.
When it supposedly "threw a rod." I cranked it and it still tried to fire up.
It's *hard* to kill a 140. The joke is that after a 140 is in an accident, they sponge off the dashboard and put it back on the car lot for sale.
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You mean Volvo makes cars that are *NOT* Wagons?!?
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