Info about the 100 R-sports

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pistonpen paultje
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Post by pistonpen paultje » 10 Apr 2008 01:01 am

Ehrr, rust untherneath the "new" paint...Allround the car. Would need a compleet respray if you want it really nice. And has 2 holes in the corners in the enginebay, 1 sill is not that good...and so on.

needs work, but is absolutely saveble!

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Post by trabitom99 » 11 Apr 2008 02:50 pm

foggyjames wrote:That car doesn't look too bad in the pictures Aymat. What's wrong with the bodywork...bad paint? Rust?
It looks like that car has been in the wars a bit since that picture was taken.

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Still, it seems a shame to break a car with an original R-Sport kit. Even the "normal" Mk1 343 D/GLS are rare enough, can't say I've ever seen one for sale before.

Much "lesser" 300s have been restored before, this one could be worth saving!

Tom
343 GL Touring B14.1E CVT (155) 98000kms 1980 (sold)
343 L Junior B14.3E MT4 (155) 229000kms 1981 (scrapped)
343 DLS B19A MT4 (155) 167900kms 1982
360 GL Injection B200F MT5 (231) 348598kms 1988 (scrapped)
360 GLT B200F MT5 (302) 230000kms 1988

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Post by pistonpen paultje » 11 Apr 2008 05:27 pm

If any car is worth restoring, its this one...

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Post by Fuse » 11 Apr 2008 07:00 pm

Seems to be in quite decent shape, no visible rust holes in the panels etc.. ;) You should see most of the old Volvos in here..

And definately I wouldn't take out the engine and part the car.. I mean the engine it self doesn't have anything so special in the technical side for which I would part the whole car. But the car in whole is a much more special than the engine alone fitted in some other 300-series.

How much do they wan't for the car?
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Post by shimon340 » 20 May 2008 10:14 am

hi guys,

The white bumpers on this mk1 R sport in belgium arent the originals are they? I thought the R sports came with the standard unpainted black bumpers? Only the Mk2 R sports go white bumpers??
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Post by trabitom99 » 20 May 2008 11:04 am

Remember most 300 R-Sports were just standard cars with dealer-fitted modifications. So if someone ordered a body colour bumper, they got a body colour bumper.

Even the 100 (?) German 100 R-Sports, which were sold as models in their own right seem to differ - the cars in the brochures seem to be based on a DLS whereas the cars which the journalists drove were GLS cars with chrome (unpainted) bumpers and the GLS badge in the grille.

Just to add to the confusion: Mk2 R-Sports were also sold with unpainted bumpers ;-)

Tom
343 GL Touring B14.1E CVT (155) 98000kms 1980 (sold)
343 L Junior B14.3E MT4 (155) 229000kms 1981 (scrapped)
343 DLS B19A MT4 (155) 167900kms 1982
360 GL Injection B200F MT5 (231) 348598kms 1988 (scrapped)
360 GLT B200F MT5 (302) 230000kms 1988

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