Okay, I'll tell you why.

Please tell your wife you can purchase an automobile for whatever the asking price maybe plus 1000$ to 2000$ or so for the usual used Volvo 240 feeding and caring to make the vehicle a daily driver for her, your family, and the pets (kitties and doggies!) that costs very little to operate, that is way cheaper with absolute and complete insurance coverage (than a car she'd like), is safer than modern cars even though you are not surround by air bags, and is an environmentally sound choice as the carbon produced from manufacturing was about two decades ago, while you motor about in a car that is very environmentally compatible while able to maintain sustained highway velocities.

Yet practical ain't sometimes what a women likes. I was told once my Volvo 240 was not a woman's car; with women that have long acrylic nails as they can get caught on interior things, for example.

You can tell your wife as you care, feed, and treat and restore this Volvo, you'll always be home, you are available for chores and other wifely duties (even though you have your fave NFL football game on Sunday while you are servicing the brake system (new brakes, fluid, turned or new rotors all around). Caring for this car keeps you out of trouble, sober, well practiced and rested for the work week, and it is your bit of pride to stave off 'the man' by caring for perhaps one of the best enduring automobile platforms for the USA import auto hobbyist.

Tell her you are doing it for her, unless you don't want her to drive it. Your wife must see some value in this.

Tell her how she can use in place of what she drives? Does she like driving your current 240? What positive things does she say about it? Think of that when forming the identifying, persuading grammars to your rhetorical appeal. You know your audience, yes?

Tell her it is not some 50 to 70k$ 2013 model year Volvo, BMW, or Mercedes, yet, when you are complete with your new Volvo 240 restore, it is worth as much or more in in-kind value than some new import with. The Volvo 240 wagon is perhaps one of the original SUVs. People look at mine as ratty as it is. The Volvo 240 wagon is a cultural icon, globally.

Ask her what she'd like to see you do with the current Volvo as well as another? You can tell her you'll treat this Volvo 240 more to her liking so she'll like it better. Of course, don't in any way allow the notion to arrive of, "Well, when done with this new 240 wagon, you can rid us of the current one." The goal is to keep all your Volvo 240s, yeah?

Hopefully appeals like simple, practical, value (don't use cheap), and you're doing this for the family (and yourself as a mind clearing hobby and hopefully make other RWD Volvo pals). Hopefully your wife sees some appeal in a Volvo 240.

I can't view any Volvo 240 as valueless. I only get irked by the owners that neglect and leave these 240s alone, forlorn, and left to die.

Hope that helps. This text was all extemporaneous expository.

If I could own more of these RWD Volvos and do nothing but restore them to mechanically reliable condition, I would. For a living or as a result of being socially secure. The carpal tunnel creeps in doing mechanic work quite quickly, now. I could be a Volvo 240 or RWD Volvo savior doing savior work in upstate Washington near lovely Bellingham.

Questions and comments?

Thanks,

MacDuff (without buttermilk)
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