Morris Minor Owners Club

I don't know that anyone else 'd call him a classic, but our other car is a Volvo 340 Vario, with which I'm much enamoured. At 21 years old it's got a little rust around one rear arch and one scabby bit of underseal which is my summer job to sort. It's only got 77k on the clock (of which 12k is ours), and it cost us £270.

It is probably the best car purchase I've ever made

The 300 series Volvo's have quite a following now and are fast becoming a classic
Sounds like a great buy and i'm sure it will give you many more years of sterling service!
Can't wait to get going on mine, plenty to do.....

And Patrick, the guy i bought it from was very careful that i wasn't a "banger racer" as he had a few offers from them. When he saw the Minor pick up i went in to view it he was willing to let me buy it!

Was once told that Volvo's weren't really rated by banger racers as they had crush zones even in the 70's.

They used to prefer heavy fords Granadas and cortina's. I wonder what they use now?

Had a volvo 340 years ago. Great car, but rolled around corners like a 2cv

paulk wrote:Was once told that Volvo's weren't really rated by banger racers as they had crush zones even in the 70's.

They used to prefer heavy fords Granadas and cortina's. I wonder what they use now?

I'm not sure, but i expect a 145 estate would crumple it up pretty good if its a "modern"!
Had a few parts arrive for it now, but still looking out for more!!

nigelr2000 wrote:Yup had an L reg one in the early eighties and went to various hippy festivals

isnt L reg 1994
my dad had a mitsubishi space wagon from new and that is an l reg. says 1994 on the log book. the space wagon a bit like the volvo. loads of space and built like a tank. it did 120,000 miles on the original brakes and nothing went wrong

Volvos are still used alot! Easy to pull out with a hi ab and dont usually bust anything when they take a big hit! The granadas arent the main tool to use and there usually restored if there any good now! Mostly moneos and vectras are used for small 2 litre meets the odd volvo unlimited bangers mostly volvo 240-740s

andrew.searston wrote:isnt L reg 1994

72/73 if it's a suffix (eg. ABC 123L) and 93/94 if it's a prefix (eg. L123 ABC).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_re ... ed_Kingdom

Well my daily drive is a Volvo FH13 - sorry; I'll get my coat....

Rog

HarryMango wrote:Well my daily drive is a Volvo FH13 - sorry; I'll get my coat....

Rog

Not heard of one of those!
I'm taking that to be a tractor unit maybe?

andrew.searston wrote:

nigelr2000 wrote:Yup had an L reg one in the early eighties and went to various hippy festivals

isnt L reg 1994
my dad had a mitsubishi space wagon from new and that is an l reg. says 1994 on the log book. the space wagon a bit like the volvo. loads of space and built like a tank. it did 120,000 miles on the original brakes and nothing went wrong

Nope we are talking the other L 1972/73

WPR678B wrote:

HarryMango wrote:Well my daily drive is a Volvo FH13 - sorry; I'll get my coat....

Rog

Not heard of one of those!
I'm taking that to be a tractor unit maybe?

Correct - very similar to this one

http://www.rbiassets.com/GetImage.ashx/ ... .jpg/small

Rog

We had two Volvos over time. an 'aaa 111 S' reg and a 'C 111 aaa' reg. 245 DL auto. Both very good. Am afraid the C reg went due to both fuel costs rising but worse, insurance costs rising out of proportion. We dieselised the fleet (of 1 !) then. The only Volvo I've been in since, has 63 passenger seats.

If you are willing to buy from Sweden I think you should check out this company: http://www.vp-autoparts.com/ They manufacture spare parts for lots of old Volvo models.

pingis wrote:If you are willing to buy from Sweden I think you should check out this company: http://www.vp-autoparts.com/ They manufacture spare parts for lots of old Volvo models.

That is great! Many thanks for the information
I can see a big order going in soon, just got to work out what i need now...

If there is anything you need for your project that vp-autoparts don't offer or you can't find anywhere else - send me a PM and I'll try to find it for you. Most parts for classic Volvos are easy to find here in Sweden. It gets even easier if you speak Swedish - and I do

pingis wrote:If there is anything you need for your project that vp-autoparts don't offer or you can't find anywhere else - send me a PM and I'll try to find it for you. Most parts for classic Volvos are easy to find here in Sweden. It gets even easier if you speak Swedish - and I do

Thank you ever so much! That is very kind of you to offer and when i get a bit further into the project i may well be taking you up on it!
By the same token, if i can help you with anything you can't find for your Minor then please PM me!