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Feb 6th, 2017, 17:20 | #1 |
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My new 740!
I thought I'd stick a few pics and details up about my new project.
All this came about purely by chance! I was chatting to my sisters boyfriend one day about cars, he mentioned his grandfather had a few old cars on his drive. Sadly it turned out the grandfather had recently passed away. The cars were parked up where he'd left them in July 2015 and haven't moved since. The family are currently clearing the house and the cars were likely going to be going for scrap. I got a few pics of the cars, a 72 Wolseley 1300 (already sold and going for restoration) a 97 Vauxhall Omega and at the front of the driveway was IMHO best of the lot! An 88 Volvo 740 estate! A bit of communication went on and the short of it is that the owners son said I could come and get the Volvo and he didn't want anything for it. I think he was pleased I was going to get it back on the road and save it from the scrap man. I had an 87 740 GLE saloon but had to sell it a few years back after buying and importing a classic yank. As soon as the car left me I regretted selling it and vowed to have another some day. Well, that day has come! So, it's an 88 E reg 740 GLE auto estate in the gorgeous shade of green blue metallic. It was originally a fleet car for the owners son, then at three years old was sold off from the lease company. The same guy bought it and gave it to his father who kept it until he passed away. It's got low mileage (91k) and has some history and all it's original handbooks etc etc. Here's a few pics of it after moving it off the owners drive and loading it up for the trip home. I got it from Bath and had it transported home to the south coast.
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1988 Volvo 740GLE estate 1985 Ford Granada 2.8 ghia X estate 1984 Ford Transit 100L LWB high top 1974 Ford Capri 1.6L 1973 Mercury Marquis Brougham 429 V8 |
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Feb 6th, 2017, 17:23 | #2 |
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Here's a few more of it once I got it home.
It needs a really good wash and polish, and the interior desperately need valeting and some bits of trim have come loose but it's not bad at all. Engine bay. A B230E, exactly what I wanted!
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Feb 6th, 2017, 17:33 | #3 |
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The plan for it is to bring it back up to a nice standard and just use it. It's a very solid car and it just wants a bit of tlc.
So far I've replaced the battery, changed the coolant and flushed the system out and replaced the radiator. Given it a full service, replace the ignition components (dizzy cap, rotor arm etc), a good wash and started tidying various bits up. It looks a million times better than it did when I got it and it's running perfectly now too. I just need to run it and burn off the old stale petrol! It's running ok on it at the moment but it's about 18 months old. I've diluted it with a bit of fresh petrol already but it needs more really. Overall I'm absolutely over the moon with it! Especially since it was basically a free car!
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1988 Volvo 740GLE estate 1985 Ford Granada 2.8 ghia X estate 1984 Ford Transit 100L LWB high top 1974 Ford Capri 1.6L 1973 Mercury Marquis Brougham 429 V8 |
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Feb 6th, 2017, 18:57 | #4 |
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Congratulations, that looks like a real find!
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1989 740 GL 2.0 estate 2000 V40 2.0 (gone) 2005 Toyota Avensis 2.0 estate (gone) 2012 Ford Mondeo 2.2 TDCi estate 1999 Land Rover Discovery 2 TD5 |
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Feb 6th, 2017, 21:37 | #5 |
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That's lovely, great colour combination, will be stunning when cleaned and polished
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Feb 6th, 2017, 22:44 | #6 |
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OMG
That looks to be in really good condition. Same colour as my 1991 960 which i also got from Bath. Mine has done a little more mileage (Nearly 300,000). Keep this thread going really interested. SC |
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