What shall I do

good weight distribution strong body strong engine cheap and easy to fix fun and predictable handling comfortable plenty of engine upgrades - from a mild 2.3 8v to a 2.3 turbo stormer

Prejudice = cheap cars. So keep it up!

Will do :D

A couple of my mates used to own them way back, 2.0GLT and a 1.7GL - which had *superb* brakes.

Well, by superb, I mean they had two settings - on or off. Merest nudge would plant you in the windscreen. They were superb in the "on" position, but the lack of anything inbetween was a bit of a bummer.

The 2.0 was quite nippy and the handling was 'ok'. But the rest of the cars were forgettable.

Don't dismiss the power of shop floor gained knowledge. I bet it's amazing the amount of drivel he can overhear whilst putting the beans away on aisle six !

Have you ever thought of getting some new material?

"If it ain't broke, it don't need fixing".

It broke the first time you posted it.

HTH.

Good for him. I seemed to be keeping up with the 205 GTis OK on the tarmac when I had mine. On the 'white' roads, even with no guarding I was easily pulling away from my mate in his 309 GTi. Its when your on the limits you really come to appreciate how a car is powered and weighted, and the Volvo is near perfect. Which is one of the reasons why I want another one. Plus you can do crazy arse shit like this:

Go for, I wont be picking it up :)

Not relevent to me - I don't drive on white roads, nor do I get "on the limits" on my work run :)

It's your money - spend it on what you like :) If you think the Volvo is great, then buy it !

You seem to have crashed :)

Because finding a genuinely good 75 is obviously a piece of piss. Everyone's got one.

For a lot of people, that's a good thing.

To me what makes a car old is how long that particular model's been about for, not whether it's got "55" in the reg plate or not.

Yep - there's must be thousands upon thousands across Europe. And they seem to do tuning too -

I don't know anyone with one, except SteveH.

Yep, I think I work on the same system. The Rover 45 and 25 are a good example - even the brand new ones, aren't exactly "new".

"I love it when a plan comes together"

Well f*ck off out of this group then :-)

Nom, meet sarcasm.