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You can find many 240s on the seattle.craigslist.org. Keep looking and you'll find a nice one worth restoration, but they'll need restoration like the fellow selling the restored 240 hawkeye puts up.
See this in Puyallup, WA: https://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/cto/5266959159.html
M47 II manual transmission equipped.
(Shade the objective lens from the sun, next time.)
If a good buy, with another 1500$ in parts (depending on what's been replaced), and some time, may be an excellent buy, with good care.
The rust is a real bother. If you can keep up with it. Wash it off in the Winter when you get a snowflake and a bunch of salt to make that 240 a real salty pretzel. I take it to the self-service car wash and rinse under the body and run water through the vents under the windshield. (Clean out the rocker panel chambers occasionally.) Self service car washes with heated water works better. Drive to enhance drying. With a clean body, Waxoyl and other undercoating in the warmer months, and ensure all body drains are clear. Replace them window scrapers!
To restore a 240 to stage 0, if that is what the guy hosting the eBay auction does, and get 15,000$ for the sale. It takes like 1500$ in parts and hundreds of hours of work. Though you are also paying for new paint and a replaced interior and engine replacement here. (Did he keep the engine he replaced for a rebuild?) The nearly all stainless exhaust would be nice. One wonders whether it has a catalytic converter. In many states like MO, you no longer need a cat. Yet you'll always need the 02 sensor for the engine control. Unless 1970s 240 with k-jet (unless a later k-jet with 02 sensor, cat (lambda sond), and frequency valve. (I'd like k-jet again, or convert to carb.)
I'll wait for one equipped with manual. These sometimes come up in Atlanta (like this one) or Texas for minimal rust. I only care about mechanical condition more than appearance. I could not afford to get new paint. It'd be nice to have solid mechanicals and electrics, and a sparkly and shiny exterior! Check the west coast craigslists, like the aforementioned seattle craigslist posting.
I may wait for another manual transmission, like you, machine man, I'll take a manual. Though should I ever have guests that cannot drive stick, I may want a 240 with auto. I'd like to re-learn auto transmission (BW 55 & AW 7x) care and restoration.
Happy Holidays, everybody. Egg nog all over the grocery store dairy section. So far, I'm resistin'. Wating for the Prairie Farms brand boiled custard in the red carton.
See you in St. Louie in a day. Penske truck with 1991 grey Volvo 240 in tow, on full car carrier, parked now outside the motel in Sioux City, IA right now. (I've spent more transporting two, and now three, Volvo 240s in the last decade than on the 240s themselves, it seems. Wear item replacement parts and hundreds of hours to replace them not withstanding. The other two 240s are in MO-state now. Pictures forthcoming in some weeks. Taking film photos as the digital cameras are packed up.)
Season's greetinz'! Warm October, what?
cheers,
Mac Duffed.
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