Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Sat May 16, 2020 10:05 pm
The Dickshovery needed to come home, so although it wasn't mine for long when I last owned it in 2018-2019 I had immediately regretted getting shot of it.
Such is life! I love the idea that the Lotus Carlton exists, but would rather have its engine in a van of some sort. The 240 GLT is nice, but those 3 speed + o/d versions have an Aisin-Warner (Toyota) automatic 'box. Nothing wrong with that, you may perfectly fairly say, but although the same unit in my campervan is leak free, the ones supplied to Volvo by Toyota for the post-Borg Warner 3 speed models tend to use their rear oil seal to carve a neat wee groove in the nose of the propshaft, which means that most of those either leave pink drips everywhere they go, or have already had the Chicago Rawhide "Speedi-sleeve" modification, which is an interference fitting sleeve that goes over the original propshaft and is so thin that a stock oil seal can be used, which will fail to carve a groove in the superior quality steel of the sleeve.
I do like a 240 series car though, and ordinarily, it would want to be a 245 for me, but clean enough though the white one is, a very lovely saloon is on my eBay spotcher just now: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VOLVO-244DL- ... Sw6ZperopZ
Damn! Just sold. I like that year best of all with the earlier, massive bumpers combined with the larger rear lamps and the dashboard that comes with a rev counter even on a DL version. There's also a very clean looking maroon 244 at a much lower price, but it's a manual, nice buy for someone though: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Classic-1975 ... Sw4qZd9q99 and that's pretty early with its LHD wiper pattern, later corrected for RHD examples like the Dunoon one and its other early features. I can just see the late Dudley Moore smoking about in that. "Boxy but pretty good" I believe was the phrase he used as the marketing bloke in that film.
Such is life! I love the idea that the Lotus Carlton exists, but would rather have its engine in a van of some sort. The 240 GLT is nice, but those 3 speed + o/d versions have an Aisin-Warner (Toyota) automatic 'box. Nothing wrong with that, you may perfectly fairly say, but although the same unit in my campervan is leak free, the ones supplied to Volvo by Toyota for the post-Borg Warner 3 speed models tend to use their rear oil seal to carve a neat wee groove in the nose of the propshaft, which means that most of those either leave pink drips everywhere they go, or have already had the Chicago Rawhide "Speedi-sleeve" modification, which is an interference fitting sleeve that goes over the original propshaft and is so thin that a stock oil seal can be used, which will fail to carve a groove in the superior quality steel of the sleeve.
I do like a 240 series car though, and ordinarily, it would want to be a 245 for me, but clean enough though the white one is, a very lovely saloon is on my eBay spotcher just now: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VOLVO-244DL- ... Sw6ZperopZ
Damn! Just sold. I like that year best of all with the earlier, massive bumpers combined with the larger rear lamps and the dashboard that comes with a rev counter even on a DL version. There's also a very clean looking maroon 244 at a much lower price, but it's a manual, nice buy for someone though: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Classic-1975 ... Sw4qZd9q99 and that's pretty early with its LHD wiper pattern, later corrected for RHD examples like the Dunoon one and its other early features. I can just see the late Dudley Moore smoking about in that. "Boxy but pretty good" I believe was the phrase he used as the marketing bloke in that film.