Hi Guys,

Talk me out of this - Ian's buddy Pat is now working at the Airport PYP in Lethbridge...and seconds later a 122 wagon shows up. It is very rough - has had some front end damage and has the floors rusted out and the usual frame rust as well as cracked inner fenders (way worse than Dale's car) - the rest is solid and pretty rust free. The interior is terrible (it's in the JY after all). No engine or transmission. Relatively complete - would need all new front sheet metal due to rust etc. They want a couple hundred bucks. I've got no where to keep it and my winter just filled up with after hours work.

The timing sucks. I'm thinking about going out tomorrow and getting all the usable parts that I need off of the car. This makes me soooooooooooo sad

C

You'll find a good one when you do start looking. The timing isn't right and neither is the car by the sound of it. Get what you can get off of it and forget about the shell. One will show up later.

Greg and I are going to have a look today - bringing tool box to pull parts. So sad.

Here we go - the haul was immense of good parts, but we did leave the car behind.

We pulled (Greg's dad even joined in the fun!):

- The front bumper - decent chrome.
- uber cool windshield washer jets that go beside the wiper arms (never seen them before much cleaner than a jet on the hood).
- Wiper arms - mint.
- All dash switches (fan, wipers, lights).
- Spedo with all working parts (working trip meter!).
- M41 spedo cable (transmission missing).
- interior door handles (2 - better than I had).
- interior arm rests (mint).
- Working seat belts (with springs inside to operate the lobster claw and all working clasps etc - very rare).
- Un-ripped sun visors (spares).
- mint steering wheel shroud.
- working turn signal switch.

All for $100!

Not quite the deal Dale got on the GT, but I'm feeling less sick about leaving it there. The tail gate, rear quarters and rear doors were litterally mint, all glass good except for the windshield and a broken driver side window chain. Very good chrome on the door handles (probably going back for those). If the front wasn't so rusty and broken this would be a very good car.

You definitely made the right call.

Your cars always have awesome interiors compared to ours. Mold, rain, and crap tons of miles makes for nasty interiors. Dry, no miles from rust, and no heat makes for real nice interiors.


Seriously, if there are 240s (242s in particular) with minty door cards, we could use those in the PNW. They aren't too hard to transport. Seats and bigger stuff meh. I am still looking for perfect 83 DL checker cloth to replicate the one-off turbo model cop car style seat (vinyl outside with checker cloth in the center).


Ideally, strip the interior out of a salt car, use a completely rust free shell and get to work. Minor price to pay in the big picture as I'm sure you know. For that matter, I'd rather pay 2K for a straight OG paint non rusty car that looks like crap and doesn't run in 122 land than trade those qualities for anything else. Bad original paint is always better than 99% of any repaint in my eyes (no surprises). That and volvo paint is either baked on or baked electrostatic sikkens or glasurite depending on vintage layed on thick, if not rather orange peely. It would be 10K+ to replicate that for durability...cheaper to just buy an OG paint volvo that is nice...

James, to be honest, had I not gone to the PNW this year, I would have been tempted. Now that I've seen that decent 220's can be had for a couple of grand, I'm less concerned about the next (distant) project. The new parts are already partially in my car. I cleaned and polished everything today and got the seatbelts installed (funny, they had completely different securing bolts for a car of the same year) - they are so much nicer than my old ones. I got he other needed parts changed (door handle, window crank handle etc). I then pulled the gauge cluster and am swapping the trip meter into my original gauge cluster with the odometer (which reads 12K - not about the mileage, you should see how crisp and clean the font is on the donor parts. Like new.).

I had to paint on the amp, brights, turns and oil lettering as it was wiped off on both clusters. Hand painting 12 point font sucks - but I got it looking OK.

If we spy any good 242 door panels, we'll bring them with us next year. Why not just fabricate them - I did it, it isn't that hard.

Today I snagged the door handles and front fender trim. It was good to do some learning on the JY car so that when I take my own apart I don't make a mess of it. The door handles are keyed the same and in good shape - mine are in good shape, but keyed differently. You have to basically pull the window to get at the two screws that hold the handle in, but once pulled, they are easy peasy.

any idea how the rear arch was? they are NLA as a repro panel.

Eric, contact Olof at Vintage Import Parts, he's got them and they are the right panel. The panels on this car in the rear are fine and I don't think they are butchered or bondo'ed - but if your blue car (sweet by the way I saw it on TB) is rusted, I'd replace them with new parts.

I did, he told me the 220 ones are NLA, unless they match the 4-door ones in which case i'm fine. do you know Craig?

you've got no idea how nice of shape this car is in.

They are the same as the 4 door ones - you're fine. It's the rear but cheek panels that are different.

well, the corners of those are a tad thin, but it's such a small area affected that i'm good to go with making a patch on those if it's too thin.

I'm gonna start off small and hidden, with the inner wing repair and the rear bumper mount repairs before tackling anything cosmetic.

New bottle of Mig Mix, adjusted P/A welder and a fresh roll of .030.... i'm roaring to go!

Thanks yet again Craig! if you're ever in this area, or i'm down there, i definitely owe you a beer or four.