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Iroll480
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Post by Iroll480 » Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:00 am

Hello, let me introduce myself to this great forum.
Since last october I'm the prood owner of a 305 480S MY'93, which is upgraded to full GT specs, including an engine from a totalled '95 GT with only 90.000km on it. Been lurcking on this forum since I bought it and it's been a great help fixing some problems. Soldered the speedometer which wasn't working when I bought it, the blower of the VEM needed some fresh loting, putted in a new clutch, a waterhose ruptured and renewed all the bushes from the gearbox linkage. All these problems occured in the first 3 months after I bought it, but since then it runs as good as new. My other Volvo is a pristine white '73 P1800ES with a light blue leather interior. I imported it from California in 1999 and of which I'm currently rebuilding the engine. Never a dull moment with these two I can assure you!

Peter
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esta
480 Is my middle name
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Post by esta » Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:37 am

Hey welcome to the forum!

Any photos of this S come GT...?

And a P1800 eh? Nice!

Esta ;)
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eEm
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Post by eEm » Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:43 am

Welcome to the forum and the club. Proud owner of 2/3 of the pretiest cars Volvo ever produced! Man's got taste.

Ian
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Post by Frantic » Sat Aug 23, 2008 12:22 pm

Welcome to this nice club
A P1800ES is great to have
Any chance it is rebuild by 'TonCar' in Berkel&Rodenrijs?
480 2.0 ltr GT '95
480Turbo-'88 (sleeping with blown headgasket)
**258.000 mileage
**RPRUEN mod, NGK BPR8ES, K&N, strutbrace
**Former cars: PV544-'64 Sport,480ES-'86,480ES-'95-2.0ltr
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lee
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Post by lee » Sat Aug 23, 2008 1:24 pm

welcome
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Dan the 480 Man
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Post by Dan the 480 Man » Sat Aug 23, 2008 1:24 pm

Welcom to the club-nice little collection you have there. Interesting user name too ;)
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Post by Iroll480 » Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:04 am

Thanx everyone for the warm welcome to the forum. I will post pictures as soon as I'm allowed too.
[quote]Any chance it is rebuild by 'TonCar' in Berkel&Rodenrijs?[quote]
No, I'm rebuilding the engine by myself. I know the company though, it's got a good reputation amongst Volvo owners. My cars only see a garage for the anual APK (MOT) or, as for the P1800ES, once every 2 years now that they changed the APK rules for cars older than 25 years.
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