1975 Volvo 244 Mustard Yellow crash rebuild thread.

Rory · 2023-09-18T03:54:50+00:00

(looking for parts for the repair, mentioned below) Hello, Recently bought a 244 with crash damage from auction, since people seems to appreciate my last bu...

Rory

Yeah, not practical to get the car there otherwise, unless i trailer it

Ex850R

Rory

Perhaps leave it till you can get it somewhere.

Fate can bring a helper to you, ye never know!

Rory

Ex850R haha, we can pray

Rory

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.

jamesinc

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

Rory

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?

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jamesinc

@Rory wow that's an early one for sure, what are the last 6 digits of the VIN?

Rory

jamesinc 079962

Rory

jamesinc speaking of which, ive gotta organise its 50th birthday party before the end of the month!😂

jamesinc

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It puts your 244 at the tail end of the '75 MY, meaning yours is approx the 79,962nd 244 built. There's only one I know of that's older, @Inski has 065668 I think.

Rory

jamesinc Thats only 3x the total production number of my c70😂 i presume it wouldve been one of the earliest that came from the voltswagen factory?

VolvoHordz

jamesinc

I think I win. My 242DL is 035838

jamesinc

Rory I'm not sure, I've never seen any info relating to chassis number-by-factory. It's probably sitting in some dank filing cabinet in a basement in Gothenburg 🥲

Major Ledfoot

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.

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