When you’ve got a team of LeMons veterans who have been racing a Volvo 245 wagon since the earliest days of the 24 Hours of LeMons and you want to add a second car to the stable, you’re going to face stern disapproval if that second car happens to be a BMW E30 or a Mazda Miata. Those choices lack imagination! There must be some way to make a Miata fit Bernal Dads Racing’s Volvo-wagon ethos… but what could it be? (Read More…)
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The San Francisco Bay Area once had one of the world’s highest Volvo 240 concentrations, but a number of factors are conspiring to send vast numbers of Swedish bricks to The Crusher in recent years. How many? Let’s take a look at the 240 inventory I spotted yesterday at a high-turnover East Bay wrecking yard. (Read More…)
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Tagged as 1980s, 1990s, 240pocalypse, Down On The Junkyard, junkyard, Junkyard Find, station wagon, Volvo, Volvo 240, Volvo 242, Volvo 244, Volvo 245, Volvo DL
Tagged as 1980s, 1990s, 240pocalypse, Down On The Junkyard, junkyard, Junkyard Find, station wagon, Volvo, Volvo 240, Volvo 242, Volvo 244, Volvo 245, Volvo DL
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