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posted by  someone claiming to be Punxsutawney Phil on  Sat Feb 22 01:03 CST 2003 [RELATED]

In the Volvo museum?

Seriously, the very first batch of Volvos imported to the USA were imported by a gentleman named Nils Sefeldt, into Galveston, Texas. So there are a fair number there. Relatively rust free 240s seem to exist in the Southwest. Of course, they'll show the effects of 10 plus years of exposure to the hot sun on their plastic. Since California has instituted Draconian emissions testing, there are a number of 240s that are finding their way to the crusher. Probably nice ones, by Northeast standards.

You need to be careful about 240s even in Cali, since they all leak like collanders and this is what causes the water to collect in the carpets and causes the floors to rot out.

A poster on the BMW board described troubles with a California BMW CS, the CS was Karmann's experiment with multi-layer unibody construction that is IMO one of the prettiest cars of all time and also possibly the worst rustbucket ever buit.

Anyway, this poster was discussing a severe rust problem in the ROOF!

Ultimately, the car became a convertible.

(That was enough to care me away from buying a CS!)

-Punxsutawney Phil





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