Seriously?

[BicycleBoy]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

Surely you could get a cheap flight to get you 500 miles closer?

Wave a bag of sand under his nose and i reckon you'd get it then use the £100 difference to pay for the fuel home

Ha ha made that mistake once already, blowing the estate budget on a gorgeous saloon. Don't regret one bit, but still need that estate...

[Othen]

Originally Posted by BicycleBoy

If you're in Scotland, you're very lucky. I'd have this in a flash if I were 500 miles closer:
https://www.gumtree.com/p/volvo/volv...ors/1441595599
2.0 auto saloon '89, but RIGHT PRICE.

Long time since we've seen cars priced to sell.

What a very nice motor car at a sensible price, It won't be tax free until 2027, so that is an additional £1,500 on the cost of ownership, but that looks like a good car. It is very like the Barge (which is lovely).

I'm with Dave - get yourself on a £50 flight this evening, stay in a local B&B for £40 and drive it back tomorrow. Start writing up your ownership thread when you get home.

Go for it - you know you want to.

Alan

[BicycleBoy]

Oh, when I depart the big smoke for some more rural abode I'll have Volvos front and back, unfortunately an estate is a prerequisite for that departure, so desirable saloons will just have to wait. Can't store 'em outside here and get classic insurance either, worst postcode in the country for car theft.

[BicycleBoy]

Originally Posted by BicycleBoy

If you're in Scotland, you're very lucky. I'd have this in a flash if I were 500 miles closer:
< too late >
2.0 auto saloon '89, but RIGHT PRICE.

And it's sold, under 24hrs from first listing.
The good ones don't hang around, blink and you miss them...

Back to scouring through the legion of overpriced dross choking the life out of the market, aka the classifieds...

[BicycleBoy]

OK, this is what I'm after: 89 estate, Liverpool-ish £2650
https://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/volvo/240/334042
...except the MOT history tells a sorry tale of many motorway miles stuck behind a gritter, or perhaps a previous owner was a salt merchant?
I'd want to see a lot of welding photos before I considered that one...

[Moomoo]

Originally Posted by BicycleBoy

OK, this is what I'm after: 89 estate, Liverpool-ish £2650
https://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/volvo/240/334042
...except the MOT history tells a sorry tale of many motorway miles stuck behind a gritter, or perhaps a previous owner was a salt merchant?
I'd want to see a lot of welding photos before I considered that one...

There’ll be another. Not that one!🤨👍

[BicycleBoy]

Originally Posted by Moomoo

There’ll be another. Not that one!🤨👍

I have never seen such a sad and sorry list of MOT failures and advisories:
https://cartaxcheck.co.uk/free-car-c...y/?vrm=F446TFP

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by BicycleBoy

I have never seen such a sad and sorry list of MOT failures and advisories:
https://cartaxcheck.co.uk/free-car-c...y/?vrm=F446TFP

Ive seen many that are worse!

[Moomoo]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

Ive seen many that are worse!

Aye but it’s too expensive at that!

[BicycleBoy]

All the fun up North today.
245 '80 one owner low miles "driveway find" - so no bull**** about barns.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175411408269
£650 start.

The bit of the bonnet still attached to the slam panel probably says all you need to know...