I rest my case about an old 240 being a good first car
(see Aug. 11, 2009 entry and August 19, 2009 entry) Hopefully you’ve listened at least one time to these two yahoo’s, Click and Clack, who usually waste a perfectly good hour of my Saturday morning when I tune in to National Public Radio. I think they have something like four million listeners, allegedly. People call [...]
How safe is an old Volvo?
A friend asked me recently about buying an old Volvo for his son who is itching for wheels and heading to college in a year. His only requirement is that it has to carry bags of dirty clothes. “Is an old Volvo safe,” he asked. Wow, tough question. For their day, they were probably the [...]
Graphic Man
So I’m sitting here, going through email and I open one from George Acorn over at www.swedespeed.com about a guy with an old 245 wagon with a little over 300,000 miles on it and he wants to know if we want it for our car collection. No, not really. That’s kind of middle age mileage [...]
