144s is available registered in NSW. 1972 personal import. Drove over from England to india then shipped to Oz. Lived at Wagga Wagga. Has a nice lazy lolop due to a nice diff ratio. Some rust witch is stable in the inland environment. Treated with tannates and other magic muck. Has a 123 ingition system. nice interior. Carbs rebuilt but need to be reset again. New battery, nice tyres and rego till .. bugger cant look at the sticker...
As used
SU carbs fitted
Ouch
Result of son finding a pole in a car park panel replaced
2014
2011
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2011
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mileage
interior
interior
ditto
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
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
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.
Accessories fitted are, cargo cage - from a ford.
Swedish tow bar.
Window shields (volvo)
Central console.
"sound"
Sports wheel and Tachometer.
For its age the interior is stunningly immaculate.
The seat has sagged and been repaired. The dash is untracked.. :-)
A crag davis thermal fan, Spotlights and a Fiam air horn are also fitted.
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.
engine bay
Spot lights
rags and relay for the horns.
One of the interesting things about the car is the cigarette lighter is set up as a ignition lock out - embarrassing when you forget.
Decided to fit a contactless electronic ignition.
Thought about hall effect points replacment but still have concerns over the worn original parts so eventially decided to gamble and go fr a 123ignitino system.
Yes see http://www.123ignition.nl/
I got it thru the Oz agent see http://www.123ignition.com.au/ $561 delivered to me at a friends in Adelaide.
Over here for a bit and after the 1200km trip the timing had slipped again - just a bit but...
So I thought bugger it after 520000km the distributor is most probable a bit worn in areas I can get to - How much is a rebuild - how much is this.
If it woeks I'll fit one to my 164e - they produce one with takeoffs for fuel injection too. Also produce a tunable one with a usb imput :-).
So I'll keep you informed.
Will be carrying a spare normal distributer in the boot for a while. :-) till I get confidence in the system
Figures below are for Esperances' performance.
Nice trip in 14 hours Started in freezing fog - yes the SU's did suffer icing problems. But so did everything at -3 with no preheater.
After that the trip was uneventful - still think I got some points degradation - as it is not running quite as I would have hopped now - just a bit sluggish - still sat on 120 kph thru the hills. twas nice.
a wonderful older car.
a great Volvo. - Can't wait to do the same trip in the 164.
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...
