I bought one of those, the handle obviously didn't match my 20 year old weathered one so I removed the plastic lever and fit it to my original handle.
The lever on earlier 940 ones are black and apparently stronger than the later white version.
This site sells metal versions for 960s but pretty sure they're the same.
https://store.voluparts.com/volvo-96...-handle-lever/
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