i have never done a build thread before so i thought i would try piece on together for you here,

i now present to you my not very interesting volvo 340 project, the basic idea behind it was to re-live my days of being a 17 year old hooning around but with a little more skill. and the car was as cheap now as it was then 5 years ago.

we start this story around a year ago when i came across a volvo 340 for sale in rutland on RR and i basically told the guy if i got there and it started i would drive it home. which i did.





i must say i drove absolutely horribly, so it suited me just fine. so i started stripping it down,



reviling this beauty where the battery once lived,



so it was time to make some templates and cutting some metal,





then chop chop



doing some certainly not weld porn on it, trying to figure out my first personal industrial welder.



the pictures are a bit hit and miss whether i actually took them at the time, so now we jump to making 2 wings into one





then for adding some power through badges lead to this



it gets more interesting soon i promise, around this point i ripped the gearbox out to weld the diff so i made some solid mounts for the gearbox crossmember.



and i dont have a picture of them finished



mocking up seat height for my super comfy lounge chair