Danny;

Your subject line makes the point perfectly! I want to, and DO have a life beyond constantly farting around with my cars, and that is exactly why I drive an old Volvo....hell if I wanted to have to play an hour with my car for every hour it spent on the road, I'd get a British POS! As it is, I fix my Volvo, it stays fixed, and then I beat the s**t out of it, and try to break it! (I usually fail, unless I do something really stupid.)

If Patrick feels he needs some more car work to do, he might just consider buying another old, neglected Volvo and restoring it (there's that hoarding instinct!)...that should keep him busy and get some "action" back onto this forum...

BTW...your proposed anthropological study sounds like an interesting project...but I think the OE seats are just great...once the "sheet pasta gone bad" rubber suspension bands are replaced with something permanent! See: http://www.intelab.com/swem/swemkitspix.htm#seat%20suspension%20upgrade

Cheers