I run the Australian Volvo forums, Oz Volvo, and recently acquired my first '85 360GLT as a project car to rally. I paid $400 and it has 6 weeks of rego left on it, so for now I'm just driving it day-to-day to build up a relationship with the car. As it's stock standard for the time being I thought I'd post here instead of the projects category.
The car is generally pretty good; the interior is all intact, but it has a list of hilarious little things that keep me entertained:
- If you give it too much jandal at the lights, the head unit falls out
- All tail lights work at their leisure only
- Occasionally one of the cylinders doesn't fire at low RPM
- The paint on the roof and bonnet sucks
- The fuel pump (according to the seller) is on its way out
- The clutch and gearbox are surprisingly tip-top!
- Replace head unit and actually bolt this one in
- Bend all the bulb pins so the lights are a bit more consistent
- Replace the oil, coolant, spark plugs, leads, rotor and cap, check the grounds
- Replace the gearbox fluid and diff fluid
- Replace the tyres with some road-legal rally tyres
- Investigate power-steering conversion
I need to take more pictures, but here's two I took last weekend: