Monday, July 22, 2013

Parts for recycling and resale

This is a list that will be edited and grow with Photos over time.

 

Volvo parts for recycling and resale
144
Plastic late mode grills
Early grill in original bag
Instrument panels old and late
Interior plastic
Boot rubbers
Spare doors
Bonnets
Tow bars

165
Aluminium grill
Plastic tubes 
Interior plastic
Carpets blue early and oz assembly
Engines
Manual transmissions
Couch pedal assembly
Front king springs 164
Sound defening
Seats
"computers" 
Spare doors
Bonnets
Front suspension and cros membrrs

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

MPG

sat down and calculated her MPG over the past few months. 

Interesting - in General they vary from 17.7 to 28 mpg. Some of the low ones are suspect but indicate hard work on crap fuel or evaporation..

Since Iǘe owned ḧer¨ (or is it a him) weve acheived 23- 27 MPG. I must admit Iḿ tempted to take her to Canberra just to see the MPG she gets.

We use 98 octaine if available. We try to never use less than 95 octaine

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Another 145s

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The excuse to buy this vehicle was it was tasmanian registered and I needed a tasmanian registered car so I did not get charges "mainlander" prices when I went to buy things. 

Actually it was just a beautiful, well preserved original car with complete documentation owned by a passionate owner who wanted to see it handed on to the next trustee.  Problem is my other early 145s had to go as we just have too many cars. I will write a blog on the other car later. But it is already spoken for...

This car is a 1970 build delivers through the overseas buyer program at Gothenburg in Feb 1971. Through the service booklet you can see it travel round europe england and Ireland. It arrived back in  Australia in June 1972 for its first Australian service. 

It migrated to Tasmania via a new owner and by 1996 had covered 132,000 miles only. Much loved and used for longer trips I am told. 

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Accessories fitted are, cargo cage - from a ford. 

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Swedish tow bar.

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Window shields (volvo)

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Central console.

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"sound"

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Sports wheel and Tachometer.

For its age the interior is stunningly immaculate.

The seat has sagged and been repaired.  The dash is untracked.. :-)

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A crag davis thermal fan, Spotlights and a Fiam air horn are also fitted.

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As is the warm air intake off the exhaust manifold.

Drives wonderfully. Does need some new bushes but thats really minor as I have a set in the stash.

I will fit a 123 ignition system.. but have yet to decide when that will happen. 

It sits happily on 65-70 but I tend to sit at about 60.

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engine bay

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Spot lights

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rags and relay for the horns.

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One of the interesting things about the car is the cigarette lighter is set up as a ignition lock out - embarrassing when you forget.

145s ramblings

As I wait for a time to do the trip back south with the 145s Ive been fiddling and fixing. First the manifold as in the previous post. Sti...