Got myself an 850 GLT

[4x4]

Today I made a window display write-up for when I take the car to shows



MOT history

[4x4]

I decided to bite the bullet and buy a Yatour Bluetooth adapter. The Bluetooth Cassette adapter I bought sound quality was dire, the wired cassette adapter cogs were so noisy I had to have the volume blasting to drown the noise out.

I ordered the Yatour on 25th August and it arrived today from China and no extra customs charges which I was delighted about. The hardest part of fitting was getting the glovebox door stays off, one was easy enough but the right hand side (next to centre of RHD car) didn't want to budge so I had to remove the front of the glovebox door to access it from beneath.

With everything connected up I turned on the radio and connected the MP3 player and it works a treat. No more noisy cassette adapter cogs and the sound is superb.



I used double sided tape to mount the Yatour on the top of the glovebox compartment

[turboboy]

Originally Posted by 4x4

I decided to bite the bullet and buy a Yatour Bluetooth adapter



I used double sided tape to mount the Yatour on the top of the glovebox compartment

Interesting that you have a shelf for the handbook in there. My 1998 V70 does not have that even though it is CD spec. Could do with one as the handbook is always under everything else I keep in there.

[4x4]

Originally Posted by turboboy

Interesting that you have a shelf for the handbook in there. My 1998 V70 does not have that even though it is CD spec. Could do with one as the handbook is always under everything else I keep in there.

You would need to find an insert with a shelf already fitted from a breaker car as it's part of the moulded insert

[4x4]

A little bit of Belgium for my Ghent built Swedish 850

Oost Vlaanderen (East Flanders) is the region of which Ghent is the capital

[RollingThunder]

A lovely car, and a nice, unique touch that !

[rowleray]

looks great!

[4x4]

My 850 will soon be 25 years old so bought it a 25th present. I'm not sure what the keyring was made to celebrate as the company Manhattan-Windsor that made it closed the doors back in 1998. Maybe made for the Silver Jubilee 240 model.





When my 850 was new it was bought through the Volvo Tourist and Diplomat Special Delivery sales scheme. These sales were offered to certain customers and as long as you fitted the criteria you could purchase a new Volvo whilst receiving a huge savings on the purchase price along with a few other perks.

The original owner of my car was a British Forces officer who was posted in Mönchengladbach which allowed the car to be bought through the Tourist & Diplomat Special Delivery scheme, it also allowed the car to be bought without paying the UK VAT.

When I spoke to the original owner's son who sold the car in 2019 to a used car dealer he told me he passed on 2x Tourist and Diplomat Special Delivery keyrings which were still unused in the original wrappers. Unfortunately these had went A.W.O.L. before the car came into my possession some 15 months later never to be seen again. The chap I bought the car from told me he never received the keyrings but he also told me he only received one key only to discover 4/5 months later he had received all 3 keys

There were several different Keyrings produced over the years and I’m unsure which is the correct one for 1997, they are also becoming hard to find so when one recently came up for sale I had to have it.





I have a feeling this would have been the keyring for 1997...
Can anyone confirm please?

[ITSv40]

As the silver key ring has 25 superimposed on a map of the UK, could it be celebrating 25 years of an official presence in the UK.

[4x4]

Part of the enjoyment for me of owing an older car is finding out about its journey from new to arriving into my possession. As cars get older it's nice to find and preserve the history for future custodians to enjoy and add to. My previous 1947 car which I bought in Australia came with no history except the name of the previous owner and a couple of pictures and with a lot of research I compiled an extensive folder starting with it being built in Solihull then shipped new to Sydney to being bought as a wreck in the 80s, to its body off restoration and eventually winning awards in Australia and the car now has the last 74 years of history which has been passed onto the new owner.

My 850 was originally bought by a Lt.Col in the British Army stationed in Germany. From my research the troops were know as the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR). I decided that a BAOR grill badge would be a fitting tribute to the car and the original owner but after searching I have found there is no such badge. There are window stickers available but I didn't want to go down that route unless I had to so I had to think outside the box this time.

eBay provided the answer in the shape of an award given to the military for recreational sporting achievements and I bought one of the awards to experiment with.

My newly purchased award arrived today and I was disappointed to find that it wasn't the brass or bronze award I expected it to be. My plan had been to solder a couple of bolts to the rear to enable it to be fixed to the grill but as it was made from aluminium I had to compromise.

Hacksaw, file, drill, sandpaper and an hour's work and I now have what I presume to be the only BAOR grill badge in the UK.