well, i've begun tearing into the PV, it's been hit front and rear, and is quite rusty too (needs a passenger side frame rail, and a fair bit of repair) and i cannot for the life of me get the fenders off, the PO has tack-welded them everywhere and then has put sheet metal screws AND the normal bolts all back in, i've got as much as i can find out, but it's still not budging. so, with that, i'm contemplating taking the entire front clip off. but, alas, i cannot figure out where to start. I've been trying to track down the volvo green book, but still, ahve had no luck with that either. When i get the front clip off, i'm going to straighten it out, remove all the trim pieces and such, and then hopefully make a fiberglass mold of it (looks like about 9 or 10 pieces are needed to do this so far) it'll be my first large-scale fiberglass endeavour (bigger than the sub boxes and dashes i've done) , but to get there, i need to figure out how on earth i can get this front clip off, and to boot, it's all been undercoated! egads!

i'll bookmark this thread, and if anyone has any specifics, feel free to email me odin1@shaw.ca, thanks!

man, this is gonna take the entire summer, i swear!

the plan is for me to pull the engine& tranny out of my 122 (a VERY strong running/built b20), and drop it into the PV after i weld up all the holes in the floor and body. Then once i get it running and not too bad, it's time to work on making a turbo 122s canadian, should be fun.

So, thanks again, in advance if anyone has any tips and or tricks as to how the sheet metal in the front comes off!