Yeah definitely second the idea of getting a paintless dent repairer to look at it before you touch it. Easy for unskilled hands to make it quickly look somewhat straighter but actually make it harder to reach a perfect repair in the long run.
1975 Volvo 244 Mustard Yellow crash rebuild thread.
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Yeah ok, will take it to a guy, dont really wanna take it off the car though, none of the body repairs wanna come to me either, but i will see what i can do.
Also not terribly worried about getting the car perfect, its a very good rust free example, but its got pleanty of patina, a slightly out of shape pannel would be not a problem.
I don't think they remove the panel for the paintless process fwiw
Yeah, not practical to get the car there otherwise, unless i trailer it
Awesome car, really looking forward to being able to drive it. The 4 hour drive i did in it (without radio) was an absolute blast. Yeh the lack of a radio is sad, but it came from factory without a radio, so im not gonna add one, i will just have to suffer.
If you want to add a radio but don't want to put speakers in the door cards, the vent in the centre of the dash hides a cutout for a 4x8 speaker. There is a similar oval cutout on the rear parcel shelf. I put a twin coil (accepts both left and right channel) speaker in my '77 a few years back, some pics here: https://ozvolvo.org/d/43-43/353
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Its been a while, but its all done!! Well aside from the bumper, turns out the replacement bumper i have is a rear bumper haha. My solution was bolting the metal structure of a later model 240 without the plastic cover and upside down to fit. Its also gas strut now, upgrade! Looks a bit silly, but itll work just fine till i can find a new bumper.
Also! On other topics, the car is a build date 01/1975. Does anyone know when production of the 244 started in Australia? Could this be the oldest aussie 244 thats still alive? Anyone seen anything earlier?
jamesinc ... some dank filing cabinet in a basement in Gothenburg
The OZ-assembled cars were supplied as CKD kits to the Melbourne joint assembly venture with VW and Nissan. There were some paper records kept of the build sheets, but from what Heino said to me about the subject, virtually none of these were saved. (He has a paper record of his unique OZ-assembled 165, and I'd asked him about other records from the Melbourne plant).
Volvo Heritage might have records of which CKD kits went to which countries, and how many went to each assembly plant. In later years of the 240, the digit in the VIN after the year model letter showed the plant in which the vehicle was assembled:
0 = Sweden (either Torslanda or Kalmar?)
1= Sweden (either Torslanda or Kalmar?)
2 = Belgium (aka VENV)
3 =Canada (Halifax, IIIRC)
4 = Thailand
5 = Malaysia
6 = Australia
7 = Indonesia
E = Singapore
D = Italy (Bertone)
See the Green Book TP 30176/11 and have your Swedish to English translator ready.
I forget which Gotenburg factory in Sweden made the last of the 240s - one plant had gone over to doing 7/9 and 8fittys, and the third Swedish plant (Uddavella) never produced 240s, AFAIK.
I think I win. My 242DL is 035838