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    hey everyone! been a while i know but some more things have been going on with the old bus.

    so at long last got my pinging issue sorted new knock sensor fitted and it still pinged. tested the wires wernt broken. and tried conti testing the old knock sensor. that it didnt like! oops then checked my timing, turns out it was set at 20 as a base and was just advancing it into oblivion so set it to 10 and now runs fine (spec is 12 but i couldnt get it that good)

    fitted my turbo bricks sticker cause why not, got my new speakers for it some pioneer coaxal 3 ways to uprate the sound system slightly, also got my hands on ANOTHER set of ht170 NOS speaker grilles for the rear doors.

    and heres my main find a set of 1988 early style 740 door cards. they arent in too bad condition some dents, damage and slight wrinkling on the passenger side but all fixable.

    got them all installed with my new speakers mounted in temporarily untill i can make a proper mounting system for them. and also got some nice new headlight protectors to modify to make work with my USA lights to protect them from stones on my autobhan trips.

    new knock sensor



    turbobricks sticker installed



    new pioneers turned up



    out of the box



    with the grilles removed



    HT170 grilles



    old style door cards



    1988 date code, last of the old style



    general mess of speakers grilles and trim!



    new speakers screwed into the plastic mounting



    not great weather for door card fitting...snowing.



    HT170 grilles fitted on the new door cards, cant see the speakers behined



    USA style at night



    the west yorkshire brigade out in force



    new headlight protectors

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    some more faffing has been done over the prior weeks and such to the car gave it a good wash + polish showing that the red still looks good after 28 years! original paint on the bonnet. i also brought my original volvo bodykit over to johns with my spare bumpers to start work on. its bashed up but not so far gone its unsavable.

    we made a strenghtening piece for the bottom of the bumper to make it keep shape. crafted by john H pidgion ££££ welded by me! but once bonded in it works a treat. also got my new badges for the rear. found a nice little "Injection" badge that i think is off a 360 to give it a period sporty look as i cant put a fake turbo badge on when its not.

    but dont want just 740 or 740 SE. so once again john helped with the paint side flatting and buffed the main part while i hand did the areas inaccessable by machine. looks nice with the new badges on. i also managed to break my airbox lid annoyingly and seeing how i had no spare. nor can i find a uncracked one off to halfrauds i went for a chav filter.

    cause even chav filtered air is better than unfiltered air, so made a small L bracket for it utilising the original volvo studs in the engine bay n jobs a good one. gives a hilarious sound to it too on WOT, so yeah just thought id post up that stuff is still happening to the old red hunk o junk.

    Fuel stop time



    polished the bonnet



    bodykit beng worked on



    strength bar made



    bar clamped in and being held to set



    Injection badge as recieved



    original badge layout idea



    chav filter bracket making



    home made bracket, does the job and dosent shake it or stress the intake pipe so jobs a good one



    looks hilarious installed



    badges installed



    how we lined the other side up

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    so thought id update this to show i am doing something with this car despite the 240! also im slowly going through re-doing the pictures to permalinks meaning all pictures will work again soon for those who want to look back at the progress.

    anyway what have i done since badging it up? well i bought a original cassette tape holder accessory cheap nice little period touch i find it fun. replaced my exhaust front silencer as santa pod killed it with the launches i think, used it as a small parts van helping with Ste's headgasket job. then crashed the door into a tree =(

    had the door open by accident and reversed caught the tree and bent it round bending the door good n proper. sourced a replacement door already though so not all hope is lost, also bought some genuine gaskets oil filters and some oil for a long overdue service!

    cassette deck holder



    installed



    needs some tapes now



    exhaust silencer whoops



    new silencer to go on



    parts van duties



    and ££££££££



    long overdue service!

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    Bummer on the door, but good progress elsewhere

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    this one will be a double post due to the ammount of pics (and limit on some forums) so bear with me. ive been doing things to the 740 just got out of habbit of updating on here!

    so, whats been going on, well first the 740 got pressed into parts van service once again fetching a coffin nose bonnet for my 245/265 project thingy, once back treated it to a oil change and cam cover gasket change that stopped my leak from the top but i still got a leak around the water pump area. my guess the oil feed dowell is leaking through the head gasket. something i cant be bothered fixing currently!

    jacked it up as the MOT was immiment looking for rust and oh dear. rusty rust all over the shop, holes in places and rust in nearly every seam! so the long term view on this shell is maybe it wont make it. but more on that later.

    went and got a LPG kit and cruise control from a breakers 940 for use in the 7 turbo project and then gave it a good wash. thats all for this update more in a moment!

    parts mission ready to go



    with a bonnet on the roof ready to go



    oil and cam cover gasket change



    started the rust finding mission



    inner arch not looking great



    control arm mounting rust



    big hole in my floor



    breaker 940 parts gathering



    gave the engine bay a clean



    cleaned the load cover and rear area



    rear seats cleaned



    fronts done



    front chrome tarted up



    nonturbo brick

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    so after that. got my new CR-824 radio from australia for my eventual 780 style radio setup. gave it a wash and polish for the VT show at IK classics, modified my load liner to stop knocking it off my home made pegs over speed bumps and fixed the cover itself as it was all comming apart thanks to john for helping with a glue!

    hit over 170K and had some nice beading from polishing, then came the big rust repairs. cut all the major rust out and welded a patch in, managed to pass a MOT with that but the long term idea of this shell may not due to the sea life its lived. but i have a 940 non rusty shell in storage now. that will eventually become this car, only issue is its metalic red and its got no sunroof!

    then i got a new antenna ariel and some badges. its all about the small details.

    rear cleaned



    new badges looking ok cleaned



    overall shot



    CR-824 radio



    got the code from a american dealer powered up n works fine!



    side profile cleaned



    modified load liner



    showing it in the car



    170K!



    nice beading



    bonnet beading



    rust hole



    all cut out for welding



    another years mot



    new ariel and badges

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    Great job, compared to when you bought this car it's an amazing transformation!

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    this one will be a 2 parter as its been a while since i updated it!

    so since the last update the car has been mainly just being the daily hack as its been doing good at, cleaned it and got some shots at the local asda, got some new lesfjors boot struts so now it dosent hit me on the head every 2 secconds! hauled johns new rebuilt axle and old 940 axle back to his house.

    went to kierens and swapped the non dented door he kindly donated to me and i think the color will come closer with polishing, the centeral locking required wires lenghtening then decided to die after i got it hooked up, power going to the motor but jack all is happening, grrrr and de-pinstriped the whole car with a heat gun n filler spreader in the rain at 9pm the night before confuzzled. what a life eh?

    got it all cleaned for cfz loaded up n set sail. breezed down to birmingham like it was nothing doing about 28 to the gallon not bad for a 2.0 being proper beaten on by me! and loaded up

    more to follow

    cleaned the bus



    back shot



    trains!


    new tailgate struts



    axle hauling



    another wash and polish



    door replaced, window held up with tape as we needed to swap the glass to use my 740 electric window regs as their a differant style!



    centeral locking faffing



    door fitted



    still working late at night



    all cleaned



    front end cleaned quickly



    packed and ready for the off



    parked at cfz



    my car at motorfurs after detailing with james coyote and arcais panda

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    after that met another volvo freind at cfz with a S60 T5, spaceball shifter and a original volvo car phone quite nice spec so obiously park next to him, then it was time to go home sadly, once again made it back easy as pie.

    then back to chilling in the works car park with the boring cars, then drove to birmingham to collect more parts for my car and johns car when going down it was like end of the world rain floods all over the place and couldnt even see the end of my bonnet, but still breezed it the cig lighter came loose and blew a fuse but easy fix.

    got all my bulbs working that blew during the fuse pop by accident, then did my engine mounts as it turns out, one side was not much of a mount anymore the cap came off when i jacked the engine, cleaned everything up and re-installed then went cruising as the sun sets. so yeah the 740's still going just being the daily van.

    2 volvos at cfz



    old and new!



    time to hit the road, bye bye birmingham hilton



    back at work



    what the hell rain



    stopped for food still dripping wet



    fully loaded with the parts. trim bits for mine n windscreen surround for john



    all the bulbs light up



    EQ light up properly now



    replacing the mounts



    whoops thats bust



    mounts replaced



    and other side replaced, dunno why pro parts painted them so as soon as the engine lands on it cracks like hell n looks awful



    gone cruisin

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    right another lil update to this, seeing how its been a while. firstly replaced the rather corroding and bubling 740 side bump strips with 940 ones, what a pain that was a volvo put the pegs that hold them onto the door in differant places so they had to be "modified", with a dremel.

    gave it a good old wash for a show at woodvale, good classic car show and some nice volvos on our stand, made a small RWD section all spanning from west yorkshire too, 2 bradford 2 huddersfield 1 leeds, got a set of 440 gauges to put into my lower 780 radio box section (yes that ideas still going ahead, battling customs atm)

    got some 740 turbo badges for the eventual transformation, fitted a pro parts sweden splash tray as it being missing was causing one hell of a mess in the engine bay, and then i got a new gearbox mount to try solve the rattle thats happening. so not a huge update but ya know, still plodding along.

    bump strips replaced



    cleaned for the show



    front end all re-blacked



    ready to rock and roll



    fear the injection.



    our RWD lineup



    440 gauges



    badges, bought both styles as why the hell not



    new splash tray



    gearbox mount



    old car old street

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    been a while since i updated this thread! so a long overdue one i think as its just been doing daily duties if im honest. so in the time its been on hiatus i replaced the M47 gearbox rubber mount mainly as the old one was sagging to hell and i thought originally it was the cause of one of the rattles thats plauged my car from buying it. but it turns out it wasnt. now thinking prop center bearing is on its way out slowly. also helps when you tighten the bolts for the mounting as a few days later there was one hell of a buzz. as the bolt rattled against the crossmember doh!

    also replaced the cambelt before a large yearly trip. mainly for peace of mind the old belt didnt look like it was a shoe string but better safe than sorry. got some nice used sil covers from america for the car to give it a slightly higher class look but will be used in the MK2 version of this build most likely.

    the car stood up to the hammering through the summer with no oil pressure issues at all in the blazing heat, got some rare tweeters for the dashboard from sweden for my ultimate accessory build up. got some badges ready for the reincarnation and rupert kindly donated his old 440 turbo gauges that fit in the lower slot of a 780 radio setup thats where these will be but with turbo and alternator rather than economy gauge.

    bought a polis pannel from sweden for extra switches by the rear view mirror that only works with non sunroof cars. gives a small clue about the V2 of this car. then it had my yearly trip to germany. from huddersfield to hull. over to nurburg for the oldtimer grand prix. back to breda holland to pick up a freind. then up to berlin. and all the way back to dunkirkue and up the country. car help up perfect even doing some high speed 100+ runs and keeping up with johns turbo 245.

    once it was home it got one hell of a clean to get all the flies and grime off the car. treated it to some nice good condition orange lights as i sorta prefer the retro look now. and then recently my coolant gauge died so i replaced it with the unit from my old GLE. all working but thats about it for now!

    M47 mount replacement



    cambelt time



    good condition sill covers



    summer time cruising



    tweeters



    better condition badges



    440 gauges



    Polis pannel



    fly spattered bumper



    brake dusty geminis



    killed a fair few flies



    fly spattered numberplate



    let the cleaning begin!



    all clean



    put back on oranges

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    another update gonna be quite a large double update as i havent been keeping up with this car. poor 740! anyway. after fixing the coolant temp gauge i came home to a nice package from a swedish freind. that includes a good condition genuine volvo 3rd brakelight spoiler for the 7. outside air temp gauge kit that im going to modify into a place. nor will it read outside air temp.

    a set of map reading lights for the rear passengers 760 style and a blue aux lights switch for my winter time running lamps. then gave the car a nice valet and re-blacked all the trim just in time for it to snow in leeds! yep. fully snowed over for a few day and it ruined all my cleaning work!

    then fitted my genuine volvo sill protector covers gives a bit of a nicer touch when the doors open and my volvo internal wind deflectors i also got from sweden. then finally i found a R sport style horn button in my box of 240 parts that john hughes kindly modified for me to fit into the isuzu steering wheel like his is. makes it look a lot more quality item rather than a sticker. i also started to prep my brakelight spoiler for instalation but more on that next post.

    gauges apart for fixing



    coolant temp guage fixed slowly rising



    package from sweden



    outside temp gauge



    map lights switch and temp gauge sender



    brakelight spoiler



    cleaned the 740



    snowed over



    snowed over back view



    at work in the sleet n snow



    rear sill protector installed



    front sill protector installed



    internal wind deflector installed



    R sport horn button i found



    spoiler prep

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    continuing on a big thanks to john hughes for helping me fit my spoiler. peeling the old tape off was "fun" in the same way that eating a box full of nails is. touched it up slightly and then we had to think of a fitting solution as i didnt have the original volvo U clamps. so john drilled the tailgate and we used a nut and bolt + double sided tape to install the spoiler. quite a secure mounting system with no worry of comming off.

    took the feed for the extra brake light from the 3rd brake light feed on the main connector inside the car, seam sealered all the bolt points so my tailgate wont corrode out and will paint it once its dried properly. then gave the 740 a good wash outside and in for its continued good service so far. 180K now and still going strong.

    embossed horn button installed



    spoiler test fitting



    spoiler test fitting



    mounting system. will clean it up when its dry



    all cleaned and showing the new spoiler



    nice and shiny once again



    side shot i like it a lot more with the spoiler



    front end all cleaned



    interior cleaned



    brake light operation

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    another small update on the 7 as im slowly forcing myself to do some things to it even though its life is a bit limited.

    got a small package from sweden containing my genuine volvo roma steering wheel r sport boss and a coin holder full of swedish crowns for the 740.

    installed that on a briskly cold day and personaly i love it a lot more than my old wheel then replaced the oil temp gauge that died with my volt gauge so at least i got something there that works.

    john h kindly assisted me in taking the old corroded ££££ty trim off the 7 and repainting it a nice black makes it look a lot more presentable now

    gave it a good wash with all this salt on the roads lately and installed my coin tray during the week =)

    steering wheel, boss and coin holder



    warming up the 740 and de-icing it



    roma wheel installed



    volt gauge installed



    painted the trim



    parked next to the 240



    all washed off



    coin holder installed with swedish crowns too



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    more updates to the 7 thread! so apart from a lot of cleaning, curse the winter weather!

    i canabalised a 240 tape deck holder to fix my rarer 7 one and make my center console look nice once again, leather fed my gear shift cover from the back + front made it a lot softer and looks better as it was really starting to dry up.

    Installed my blue spotlamp switch i need to get the lamps here yet but for now the switch can sit there, painted my grey 960 map lights black and with help from john H installed them in the 740. nicely volvo had put a mark on the rear of the trim to show where they needed to be cut out =)

    and stuck my HT164 tweeters down to the dashboard the wires are routed but standard from volvo has them spliced into the standard speaker wires. i decided this would make them sound horid so a crossover is on order to make them only take the high end frequency

    (on another note i am going back updating all pictures so they will work, give me some time!)

    outside the chip shop lookin smart

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    christmas shot

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    time to rip apart one to fix the other

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    all fixed

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    another cleaned shot

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    gear shift cover leather fed

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    sat out in the corner

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    switch installed

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    map lights painted

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    HT 164 tweeters installed

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    map lights in the trims

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    and in the car

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    been a while since i updated this thread so theres a lot of catching up to do ill do over the next few days, ive been slacking mainly due to life getting in the way, but things have still been done to the 740!

    so after the prior stuff it was pressed into its winter service running. getting rather mucky n reminding me how bad sealed beams are when they get mucky i couldnt see a damn thing! but it completed a long trip down to essex to see the partner and back flawlessly as usual, once back i got a package from my american freind that included some nicer seals for my USA quads to stop the condensation forming in the parking lights and indicators.

    and another CR702 radio as my current one died. but after a while this radio turned out to be as bad as the other one so it got removed and pillaged for parts, bought some random odds n ends to treat it in the meantime including a NOS headlight knob as mine was badly worn another hazzard switch cover as mine broke and a ticket holder as i broke that installing the map lights.

    so did that one weekend and also made a 740 freind over at johns workshop turns out its a local car to us, 90's front 740 GLE

    yucky salt

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    holy mucky sealed beams

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    183K still going strong

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    almost home from the trip to essex

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    mucky mucky

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    salt streaks gallore

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    better USA quad seals

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    the replacement not so great CR702

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    odds n ends

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    switch installed

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    old busted cover

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    radio in for the brief time (few days)

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    switch cover works

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    740 freind

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    replaced ticket holder

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    following on from the prior update gave the car a wash and took it to a northern retro meet starting at the market in huddersfield then over to the highway man cafe and to ik classics and apart from the field getting us all stuck it was a good day n some nice cars spotted.

    then inbetween the winter driving i took some fancy shots as im slowly getting happy with how my interior looks, fitted my better usa lamp seals thats mostly cured the condensation think the rest is bad aftermarket unit sealing, made a 850R freind in the services and got a shot of the fleet as it is. apart from my 940 thats hiding away.

    washed n ready

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    looks good next to johns car

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    volvo team on a roll

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    stuck in the field

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    after show wash

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    nice interior shot 1

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    another fancy angle

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    aaaand another angle

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    suddenly got rather snowy

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    fitting my seals

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    all done

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    850R freind

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    fleet shot 1

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    and another with a clean yard now

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    carrying on from the last time i did another oil n filter change to flush out some of the carbon crap thats still comming outta my 180K mile block. prior owner wasnt big on changes obiously, so down to the local clive brook in huddersfield, had a glance at the new range but not for me. once that was done i cleaned up my new TD6141 740 radio face i got from america and fitted a vatra battery that did solve my starting issue slightly, also made the car run a lot nicer.

    on swapping the radio i found the tape deck was dead (worked but not picking up any sound) and half the lighting circuit was dead so im gonna have it refurbished by a radio place localy thats good with radios when i get the time, after that went to oil can cafe volvotuining meet, was a good day out car ran fine no complaints there, picked up a 100A alternator from ste to replace my dieing 740 unit as it was slowly not charging the new huge battery.

    and kept pressing on with winter running duty's so lots of salt n grit, did WD40 the lid for a "instant black" look, bit cheating but ya know im lazy.


    arty shot by the bf

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    new vs old

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    the new line, yet the old is still going strong

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    cleaning the face up

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    new battery fitted

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    radio milarkey

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    face off to check the circuits

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    in and powered up. radio side works but i use a tape deck aux a LOT

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    mine at oil can cafe

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    general overview

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    another from the bf driving back looks like its from a 80's vhs

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    100A alternator from ste

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    awful awful salt

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    instant black!

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    crusty headlights

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    The Scrapyard Saved 740


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    Have been following your thread m8 but can't see all your photos which is a shame wouldn't mind a old 740 battle bus tbh I just missed out on one for free not so long ago well worth the effort turbo charged or not looks good
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    Quote Originally Posted by Johnboy78 View Post
    Have been following your thread m8 but can't see all your photos which is a shame wouldn't mind a old 740 battle bus tbh I just missed out on one for free not so long ago well worth the effort turbo charged or not looks good
    yeah i know a lot of the old pictures have died im in the process of fixing them all dont worry just a long old job like
    The Scrapyard Saved 740



 

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