Having owned a nonn-turbo 78 Volvo 240DL sedan as my first car in highschool I have to agree, it must have been in horrible condition for you to win. But, so what, enjoy the victory none the less! Now for a volvo story to explain my opinion.........

One night, while having way to many beers (this was a long long time ago, I realize the insanity of what I'm about to tell you) I was on a back road and got stuck behind about 5 other cars trailing an individual driving well below the speed limit. As we drove, more cars stacked up behind me. We hit a short straight down hill stretch. I had the volvo well tuned, bilstiens, etc... I decide to pass across the double yellow. Well about 6ish cars behind me I notice a flashing. I look back... there's a cop bearing down on me, I look at the speedo, I'm aproaching 85mph, on the wrong side of the road.. across the double yellow.... I'm drunk.... I figure f...the hell with it, I'm screwed so he's (the cop) gonna earn this one. I pop some Iron Maiden in the tape deck and keep the pedal floored. It's on, he's in one of the boxy Crown Vic's. Well as I'm sliding around corners at near triple digit speeds (I had this car wired, used to race it in the twisties all the time) I'm losing the cop. As I realized this, I took time here and there to flip him off through the sun roof. Soon his lights were faintly flashing on the trees. Well I had to run like hell and he almost caught me before the next back road but in the end I pulled into my folks house, parked behind it down by the horses and turned off the lights. He even missed the turn onto my street as the flew by sirens blaring.

So the moral to the story is, a well taken care of old Volvo in the right hands can haul some ass. I hope you all enjoy this, I swear on everything one can swear on that this is absolute truth and really happend.

PS, despite all this, I'll still only drive a benz. That Volvo was the biggest POS I've ever owned.

Frank.

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