If you could have a series of pics to show what a 300 is like as a daily - these are it

Evoman wrote:Im enjoying pictures, its still however sad if its been much a major item in your life.

Yeah well, I'll try and not get TOO carried away

SteveP wrote:If you could have a series of pics to show what a 300 is like as a daily - these are it

Note how the car gets tattier as time goes on - if you want to keep a car in good condition, don't do what I did!

Tom

Loving the pics and the stories Tom.

I never realised this car was quite so well traveled.

HoW many kms on the clock again?

trabitom99 wrote:Yeah well, I'll try and not get TOO carried away

Please do

Sad to hear about this, that rust did look pretty grim. Too much to do without a great deal of work and/or time off the road. Thats what eventually took my Mk1 off the road. A welding on a second set of sills and welding patches on patches on patches was too much. (I was keeping the car for the future when I had time to mess about with it, but it got knicked!). At least you made the decision yourself, although I know what you mean about having to give it up.

volvosneverdie wrote:I never realised this car was quite so well traveled.
HoW many kms on the clock again?

Yeah, it's been everywhere. 348460kms as of today. I won't make the 350K, more's the pity ...

Second random snow pic, car still standard with no extra lamps, alloys etc:


random Trabant pic:


.. both from 2004.

Two more days to go

Tom

P.S. can anyone recommend a slide scanner?

Is there much in the tank?

Id be tempted to run it on stands up to 350......

volvosneverdie wrote:Is there much in the tank?

I'm filling up 10 litres at a time ATM

Tom

trabitom99 wrote:

volvosneverdie wrote:Is there much in the tank?

I'm filling up 10 litres at a time ATM

Tom

You Hero. It'll take a few 10 litres to get up there mind.

Is there an official V300 milage record we know of?

Chris is pretty high up there ... I believe aukki from Finland scrapped a 360 at 400T km.

Cheers

Tom

i know a Dutch mk2 340 saloon that did 525xxxkm with a B14! engine gave up at that mileage (shaftplay int he oilpump causing it to seige and break the dizzy's gear.) car's still going strong after inserting a new B14

I *just* have you Tom, 229,800miles today which is about 370,000km I think.

Tbf though, I engine swapped at 210,000 so a bit cheaty really

volvosneverdie wrote:Id be tempted to run it on stands up to 350......

The speedo is on the front wheel dude!



Sorry it' s come to this Tom, I felt bad about scrapping my first 360, but it really was similarly rusty. I hope it wasn't too much to do with my failing to get you those repair sections?

filthyjohn wrote:

volvosneverdie wrote:Id be tempted to run it on stands up to 350......

The speedo is on the front wheel dude

LOL. So it is.

filthyjohn wrote:Sorry it' s come to this Tom, I felt bad about scrapping my first 360, but it really was similarly rusty. I hope it wasn't too much to do with my failing to get you those repair sections?

No worries John, the biggest problem was not having access to cheap labour Having said that, even Romania isn't that cheap anymore, but it would've cost me 2 or 3x as much to get the work done in Germany. And then I'd still have a car with almost 350T on the clock.

Tom