andx0r
Well-Known Member
It's a '65 Volvo 122S sedan. 4-speed, with a blue interior. This definitely wasn't an impulse buy. I've been sniffing around this car for YEARS.
lol potato fail.
The story basically goes that this car sat in a new Volvo showroom down in Georgia for about 20 years. Then, a few years ago it sold on ebay to one of the owners of a local import repair shop. Said shop was once a new Volvo dealer itself, but now the original owner's 2 sons run the place as a repair garage. Really nice guys, I bring cars there sometimes.
I saw the car sitting there right when he first got it, so I stopped to ask about it and look at it. And threatened to return should I ever see it for sale. He bought the car for his wife, and put a ton of work into it to get it roadworthy for her, and now a few years later she's decided she wanted an old wagon intsead. She got a big old AMC wagon, and the 122 went up for sale. And now I'm picking it up monday.
It's the best kind of old car. One that never got rusty, and one that belonged to someone who knew how to work on it and sorted it out completely. It's great to just fire it up and drive around, like you would any other car. He was also nice enough to put it up on the lift for me and the underside's almost ridiculously nice. The last old car I bought that was this sorted out was 10 years ago when I bought an '81 Datsun from a friend's brother (who is also a mechanic) out in Sacramento and drove it home.
So, pretty pleased that I got to it. And it's owner is pleased that it's going to another Volvo enthusiast.
No real plans for it once I have it, except to remove the dealer-accessory under-dash AC unit and MASSIVE York compressor and store that away, install a tachometer, and maybe get a slightly smaller steering wheel. There's definitely some fat guy in a small car action going on, but it's quite comfortable once situated inside it. A smaller wheel would be nice though.
The story basically goes that this car sat in a new Volvo showroom down in Georgia for about 20 years. Then, a few years ago it sold on ebay to one of the owners of a local import repair shop. Said shop was once a new Volvo dealer itself, but now the original owner's 2 sons run the place as a repair garage. Really nice guys, I bring cars there sometimes.
I saw the car sitting there right when he first got it, so I stopped to ask about it and look at it. And threatened to return should I ever see it for sale. He bought the car for his wife, and put a ton of work into it to get it roadworthy for her, and now a few years later she's decided she wanted an old wagon intsead. She got a big old AMC wagon, and the 122 went up for sale. And now I'm picking it up monday.
It's the best kind of old car. One that never got rusty, and one that belonged to someone who knew how to work on it and sorted it out completely. It's great to just fire it up and drive around, like you would any other car. He was also nice enough to put it up on the lift for me and the underside's almost ridiculously nice. The last old car I bought that was this sorted out was 10 years ago when I bought an '81 Datsun from a friend's brother (who is also a mechanic) out in Sacramento and drove it home.
So, pretty pleased that I got to it. And it's owner is pleased that it's going to another Volvo enthusiast.
No real plans for it once I have it, except to remove the dealer-accessory under-dash AC unit and MASSIVE York compressor and store that away, install a tachometer, and maybe get a slightly smaller steering wheel. There's definitely some fat guy in a small car action going on, but it's quite comfortable once situated inside it. A smaller wheel would be nice though.