R3 - yet another bus !

Cleaned up the garage, found parts laying around, but it turned out to be a complete Volvo 480? If you want to sell your car (480 only) you can place an advert here.

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R3 - yet another bus !

Post by dragonflyjewels » Tue Aug 25, 2020 2:43 pm

Bearing in mind that R1 is in need of a set of seats, preferably the early design with blue piping, I got all excited when this came up on ebay
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volvo-480es- ... fresh=true
No closeups of the wheel arches encouraged the thought it might be full of rust. Perfect, I thought, right seats and low mileage so minimal wear on them, plus a pile of useful spares.
It's not far from jaster so he went over to have a look and 'sadly' reported near perfect arches (filler from a minor shunt but no sign of rust) and all feels very solid behind them. Damn, less a seat source than yet another 480 in need of rescue, as if we need another one ! Jeff has no more storage space and we certainly dont want to bring it all the way to Norfolk only to have to take it back again, so we have been torn between 'it needs to be rescued', 'we can't possibly buy it, it will have to take its chances' and 'o but those seats are just what we need!'
The seller had told jaster he'd rather it went to the club, hopefully for rescue but if not to help save another one and also that if we wanted it, he'd take an offer of £200 and stop the auction, plus store it for up to a month. So, after days of dithering we finally decided to take the plunge. The pot is now down to just £50 - urgh !!
The next conundrum is prioritising repairs. We are collecting the Celebration from Mansfield on Thursday - do we give it to Jeff and hope there isn't much to do on it so we can move it on quickly, or do we bring it here and let Jeff concentrate on R1 / R3. We really need a crystal ball !!
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Sylvia

Snazzy - 1993 Paris Blue ES red dipstick 2.0i bought 2001
Lethal Lily - 1991 White Turbo
Paris the Unicorn - 1991 Paris Edition
hubby has
Sven - 1994 Racing Green GT
Evil Eva - 1992 Paris Blue Turbo

no previous 480s - can't bear to sell any

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Re: yet another bus !

Post by MisterH » Tue Aug 25, 2020 2:49 pm

Petrol Blue as well! that's a rare colour, and sound like it could just be a MAP sensor issue as well :o
Current Jobs to do (23/1/22):
Fix Central Locking
Fix drivers side speaker
Annoying Scratching Squeak
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Complete Front O/S rebuild

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Re: yet another bus !

Post by WRDendy » Tue Aug 25, 2020 4:24 pm

Glad to hear it worked out!
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Re: yet another bus !

Post by jifflemon » Tue Aug 25, 2020 5:18 pm

Jaster wrote:
Tue Aug 25, 2020 4:24 pm
Glad to hear it worked out!
Huge thanks to you for the eyes on the ground. You made it possible

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Re: yet another bus !

Post by MisterH » Tue Aug 25, 2020 5:41 pm

So this car is secured?
Current Jobs to do (23/1/22):
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Fix drivers side speaker
Annoying Scratching Squeak
Water leaks
Complete Front O/S rebuild

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Re: yet another bus !

Post by dragonflyjewels » Tue Aug 25, 2020 6:32 pm

Payment sent by bank transfer this afternoon, seller has ended the auction so now there are 3.
Here was me originally thinking we could maybe save 2 or 3 a year :rofl: Mind, it might take Jeff a year to get over these 3. :lol:
Sylvia

Snazzy - 1993 Paris Blue ES red dipstick 2.0i bought 2001
Lethal Lily - 1991 White Turbo
Paris the Unicorn - 1991 Paris Edition
hubby has
Sven - 1994 Racing Green GT
Evil Eva - 1992 Paris Blue Turbo

no previous 480s - can't bear to sell any

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Re: yet another bus !

Post by MisterH » Tue Aug 25, 2020 6:40 pm

dragonflyjewels wrote:
Tue Aug 25, 2020 6:32 pm
Payment sent by bank transfer this afternoon, seller has ended the auction so now there are 3.
Here was me originally thinking we could maybe save 2 or 3 a year :rofl: Mind, it might take Jeff a year to get over these 3. :lol:
I am really pleased this one has been saved, especially given the colour, other than James' old E-reg, I have never even seen a picture of another Petrol Blue (I assume) car. I hope it is too good to break
Current Jobs to do (23/1/22):
Fix Central Locking
Fix drivers side speaker
Annoying Scratching Squeak
Water leaks
Complete Front O/S rebuild

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Re: R3 - yet another bus !

Post by dragonflyjewels » Tue Nov 03, 2020 9:29 pm

Having found out that the seller of R3 is a one man band bodyshop with the reputation of being an ace fabricator, I booked our Saab in for wheel arches. All that is available in the way of repair panels is the front end of the arch and ours is rusty both ends. Our usual bodyshop and our Saab repair man both said the same thing - you have to buy the complete rear quarter panels. Only about 2k each side to buy and have fitted ! ulp !! An ace fabricator was just what we needed, and it was a good idea to placate him for the late collection of R3. Kimosaaby was delivered to him yesterday, giving me an opportunity to have a look at R3 and also ask about the history.

It's the usual story on a relatively rust free example - bought new by someone with a garage who loved it, looked after it and kept it long term. In this case until he died a few years back leaving it to be inherited by his son. The son used it for a year or so but had a very limited budget and no garage so problems weren't fixed and the car ended up just left parked on the drive. Our man the ace fabricator bought it with half an idea of doing it himself - he does all sorts of weird restorations and whacky conversions for some seriously wealthy clients so this was a bit ordinary for him, hence it ended up on ebay.

R2 is moving off to the Pamper Parlour, vacating a 480 shaped space on Jeff's drive so we shall shortly be investigating whether we can hire someone to trailer R3 to him during lockdown. I'd already realised it wasn't worth us doing it, with trailer hire at £72, fuel for a fairly long journey and the Saab off the road anyway. Quotes initially came in around the £80 mark and when I didn't respond, I started getting offers under £60 - it's not very far from Witney to Milton Keynes, unlike our previous rescues.
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Snazzy - 1993 Paris Blue ES red dipstick 2.0i bought 2001
Lethal Lily - 1991 White Turbo
Paris the Unicorn - 1991 Paris Edition
hubby has
Sven - 1994 Racing Green GT
Evil Eva - 1992 Paris Blue Turbo

no previous 480s - can't bear to sell any

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Re: R3 - yet another bus !

Post by dragonflyjewels » Wed Nov 25, 2020 4:38 pm

R3 - finally setting off for the sanctuary

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Jeff's going to like these wheel arches a whole lot more than yesterday's ;)
Sylvia

Snazzy - 1993 Paris Blue ES red dipstick 2.0i bought 2001
Lethal Lily - 1991 White Turbo
Paris the Unicorn - 1991 Paris Edition
hubby has
Sven - 1994 Racing Green GT
Evil Eva - 1992 Paris Blue Turbo

no previous 480s - can't bear to sell any

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Re: R3 - yet another bus !

Post by MisterH » Wed Nov 25, 2020 4:55 pm

dragonflyjewels wrote:
Wed Nov 25, 2020 4:38 pm
R3 - finally setting off for the sanctuary

Image

Jeff's going to like these wheel arches a whole lot more than yesterday's ;)
I love the colour of this one, really rare!

I look forward to seeing how this goes, if I had the space, money, time, skill etc. I would be interested in saving it myself
Current Jobs to do (23/1/22):
Fix Central Locking
Fix drivers side speaker
Annoying Scratching Squeak
Water leaks
Complete Front O/S rebuild

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Re: R3 - yet another bus !

Post by dcwalker » Wed Nov 25, 2020 5:13 pm

Now that looks really rather nice...

Hell of a lot better than what we have been looking at over the last 24 hours or so! :lol:

David
Current: 1994 480 GT, 1996 460 CD & 1997 440 LE with lots of optional extras & 2007 V50 SE Sport
Previous: Celebration 331 (re-homed with Richard S), Celebration 467 (returned to Martin Mc); Celebration 346 (re-homed with Alan480); Celebration 269 (scrapped abandoned project), Celebration 73 (sold on after 6 years), 1992 ES, 1988 ES - and numerous other non-480 Volvos!

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Re: R3 - yet another bus !

Post by edie_fox » Wed Nov 25, 2020 6:37 pm

Much less terror-inducing than the celeb. :lol:
And, yes, lovely colour!

Can't wait to hear the report. Well done on all the 480 moving and swapping, people!

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