Buying a
manual DAF 77/Volvo 340 is much the same as having a dog but biting the postman yourself. Nasty gearchange, nothing like the same incredible acceleration from rest 'til the car's maximum speed of around 52mph oh, and the speedometers tend to under read as three of the points on my licence can demonstrate!
I was never as happy as I was the day that the gable end of a house fell on top of what had, a few months earlier, been my fifty quid example of the 340. The tumbling masonry scratched the paint really quite badly and cracked on corner of the windscreen yet still the evil Dutch sod refused to die. Dead now though, and its pulleys and belts are in another example. It was a decent car in fact, but its speedometer cost me sixty quid and those points.
Do the world a favour please, Rich. Go and view the 340 and accidentally burn it to a crisp during your visit. Pretty please?