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Inertia reels on the rear fitted to the wagons first perhaps?
There have been a couple of early sedans surface recently, though attempts at gleaning fine detail from the owners hasn't been forthcoming.
I'm in a minority when it comes to detail and originality.

I'm stretching to recall but I have a feeling my parents 75 didn't have inertia reels in the back
Remember it was only "original" once - as it left the factory - anything that happened afterwards has added to its history. We should respect that too. :-)
For sure, respect and celebrate the journey and life of your car and it will open up it's life story.
carnut222;109386 wroteI posted this in radar as well...you probably can get details off the compliance plate or have a look since it's in Tassie:
https://www.pickles.com.au/damaged-salvage/item/-/details/CP-05-75--Volvo--244--Sedan/302103189
The compliance plate doesn't provide the details of manufacture, it's on the type plate.
It's an Aussie assembled unit. I spoke with the owner a month ago, no pic or details of the type plate.
Does have the correct wheels though, with an appropriate date of manufacture, as far as the owner recollects.
The car itself is 200ks distant. If there were somewhere to store temporarily up north I'd look at the purchase.
Pickles only allow 48 hours for pick up.
Thanks for sharing the information.

Wed 19th July update.
I know where the car is currently, unfortunately the wheels are not available to me. Still 200ks away from me.
2 months later
Dash Repair.
The dash on the 244 has (as most do) a crack to the left side of the instrument binnacle. A previous owner had repaired with grey silicone the crack, a PO too had provided a dash mat to hide the repair and save the remaining areas of black vinyl from further deterioration.

This image shows the crack with the top surface silicone removed.


The repair began with the crack gouged out and new material put in place. It's quite a time consuming process.
Quite a large area to repair.


I wondered how the repair of the crack at the front out of sight when in the car would be effected.
With a mirror my son!
The main repair has been completed but not finished. You can see the pattern for the vinyl to the left.


There's lots of filling and smoothing with a palette until the final finish.



Here's the final finish. Take into account the light is streaming in on the work, the angle of the image is critical to the finished work.




Barry Gittus from Uticolor, Hobart completed the work just over 2 hours with not a seconds break.
the result is very good and the original dash is still there, keeping with my desire to keep it real.
The stitched dash mat is back in place, protecting the dash.
2 years later

I just got this '75 244DL with 83.847Ks, it has a few genuine options, the original books and keys. It was locally assembled.

Nice. I saw it for sale and was so tempted but put off by the engine problem ? I have had b21s before and nothing could kill them

    caerleon

    Nice. I saw it for sale and was so tempted but put off by the engine problem ? I have had b21s before and nothing could kill them

    It turned out to be the fan clutch, the fluid has leaked out and it was making noise. I replaced the fan and it was fine, it drives pretty well. It has a bit of play in the left tie rod end, and it has to be kept running for the first few mins when cold started, apart from that it seems totally fine.

      Is it rusty as reported by someone on here? Looks pretty good

      It doesn't have any rust, someone else asked me about that as well, I think there was another early 244 for sale at the same time which had some rust issues.

      just the fan clutch! It’s a beauty keep us updated with it

      a year later

      Do you have any more pics? I really like the orange 75 ?

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