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Super chuffed with my new hi-spec 240 GLT!

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Old Jan 29th, 2011, 20:02   #1
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Default Super chuffed with my new hi-spec 240 GLT!

I’ve had a very good day indeed!

Steve Haigh gave me a lift down to Southampton to pick up the 240 GLT estate that I bought on ebay. It is a very late GLT, being 1990 built. It was delivered new in Germany and imported into the UK in 1992.

I knew the car had a/c, but I was not prepared for all the other extras fitted which came as massive bonus! The original owner must have spent a fortune.

The car has:
Air conditioning
Cruise control
Limited slip differential
7-seat pack
Volvo towbar
Graphic equaliser
Volvo foglamps
Locking wheel nuts
Roller load cover
Boot tray
LED ambient temperature gauge
Metallic mid grey paint (which I’m told was not available on UK GLTs)
Probably some other bits I've missed

There are faults with the car, some bits of rust, and it is certainly in need of a lot of TLC maintenance-wise. But it came with 5 nearly-new tyres, a new exhaust and 6 month MOT.

This is absolutely the best £450 I ever spent!



















Lots of cleaning and maintenance needed under here!




Cruise


A/C
























Ste tries out the child seat!



Diff testing! One wheel was on a sheet of ice










Some nasty bits














Many thanks go to Nick_ovlov who spotted this. And to Steve for the 500 mile lift!

More photos tomorrow when I start the clean up.


Cheers

John
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Nice buy even for the spec alone! It's going to be a real treat once you clean it up and have it in tip running condition!

Does the air-con work and has it been converted? What about cruise? Looks like it had cruise fitted waaay back in Germany! Those LED ambient temperature gauges are very rare and fetch a fainting price on eBay US!

What's up with the washer exactly? I noticed it has black wiper arm boots, not to common now-a-days!

Look forward to the updates!
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Looks great. Never seen that colour before, very nice. Funny position for the horn? Should look very lux once you've sorted things.
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wow, that has to be the ultimate 240! great find!

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Looks super-nice - love the colour. Mine had the same diplomatic sticker in at as well as it was owned by a guy stationed out in Germany. Wish mine had some of those extras though
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Thats a hell of a lot of volvo for the money!!..good score..cheers hj.
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*had and LSD
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Nice find!
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it looks like one of my old bosses cars ,always that colour always the highest spec available but in his case on every one all the badges were removed .
he had a fair few in the 20 years i worked for him he loved them ,his job? antique dealer LOL
he also had the second? merc CLK (morton harket his friend had the first?) imported into the country ,on getting it 3 days later he sold it for a vast profit because he liked his Volvo better LOL
the reson he had a profit was it let someone shortcut the long waiting list for them or he was hiding a loss (chuckle)

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Superb buy wish mine had AC I will look forward to the other pictures after cleaning. James
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