Show Me Your Ride!

[porrick]

Dread,

The ones you're thinking of are the 700 series. Both 740 and 760. Mine is a 240 and is a bit less boxy. The older Volvos are all rear-wheel-drive, but, at least with the 240 series (and older models), get around quite nicely in the snow with just a set of four snow tires on it. Your foster parent's car was probably a 760 Turbodiesel wagon...

-J

Mystery apparently solved... However, the 940/960 estate is near identical on the outside to the 740/760 estate (just a little less angular front). Produced till 1998, they will be around for a long time - average age of Volvos in Norway is 21 years (!)
Here is my car without snow at the dealer's

[morrison]

Here ya go Riverkilt and everyone else!...My commuter. It runs on coffee!


The road rig. Bro, it's only got one seat! Besides, your tartan is a bit high at the hemline.

[Mike1]

At THOSE gasoline prices, it needs to run on coffee!

[Fearnest]

At THOSE gasoline prices, it needs to run on coffee!

You can get a gallon of gas for a LOT less than a gallon of Starbucks or Seattle's Best or Peets...

[mudd]

- average age of Volvos in Norway is 21 years (!)

I just Love my 850 Turbo. 11 years old and still rides like a new car. Just need to make sure you've got good tires to get around in the snow.

[Scott Gilmore]

Scott,

Next time I'm in Sandy Eggo, I'll buy you that beer. I'd love to hear that story and more.

Dale

Thanks Dale, but if I have my way I'd like to drop in on you in Eugene (U-jean??). The Pacific northwest is the one section of the country I've not visited that I really feel I've missed. (Mind you, there is one other broad area of America I've not visited, but I don't feel like I'm missing anything.)

Back on subject though, my compliments on the nice, tidy, clean beemer. I know from first-hand experience how much effort it takes to keep one's single-track-vehicle polished. It ain't like a car you can hose off and wipe down in ten minutes and be done with it.

I like the low bars on your R90, too. So many people seem to think that unless you are sitting in the same position you sit in to watch TV, you'll be uncomfortable on your motorcycle. Curiously, they seem incapable of accounting for the omnipresent 75 mph wind that is usually absent from most living room TV-watching experiences. Contemporarily, those bars were called "European." For discussion purposes here, let's call them Scottish, waddayasay?
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[JBfromBS]

Here's mine, can't wait for the spring to come!
(Of course, it was over 70F yesterday and I had the top down!)

[Panache]

Here's mine, can't wait for the spring to come!
(Of course, it was over 70F yesterday and I had the top down!)...

That is one very nice looking Mustang!

Cheers

Panache

[cwr89]

not my pic, but I think it gets the point across...
I would be driving a 96 Ford escort but, I don't have a license... (fortunately it will come in a month or so, once I get that eagle scout thing out of the way.)

~Casey

[porrick]

Just need to make sure you've got good tires to get around in the snow.

True, I have studded tyres on my cars (not the Stag!) from end of October to April/May (the latest I have been in a convoy escorted by a snow plough between here and our nearest town is May 8th )