Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Anti-theft Device

[Rick Moseley (ramosel]

Stereotypical content...  Look away if prone to being offended

Volvos..... If you live anywhere near a college town, maybe this will resonate.   For many years, almost every Volvo 240 I saw were Ds and faded blue.  The drivers were middle aged (or older), balding but had pony tails, wore socks with their sandals...  Taught liberal arts at a local college (I read bumper stickers and parking permits).  In the early 2000s the family that moved in next door had a blue 240D.  Yep, the gent fit the description.   In 2008, I'd had my Tacoma about a week when at a stoplight a blue 240D couldn't get the gear change right and backed into me.  Virtually the same guy... Right down to the Birkenstocks.  Both vehicles ok but his exhaust fell off.  We pulled over and I crawled under his car to fixed his custom coat hanger exhaust hanger.   He was very grateful but made a snide remark that he would have to tell his students he had met a NICE republican  (HE saw my NRA and SCCA stickers).   As he pulled away I saw his Kerry and Obama stickers.  

About a year ago I was in the local college town, Davis, and they had a Volvo car show on Sunday morning...  I HAD to see that.  To my surprise, there were some youngsters with wicked 760s. One even had an LS swap with twin turbos.   And many blue 240s

On Feb 2, 2016, at 2:44 PM, Fellippe Galletta <fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com> wrote:

The Volvo appeal is hard to explain for those who never owned one....

The 240 I believe had a higher level of indestructibility than even the 740/760 series.....like a Swedish Mercedes Benz 300D.

This V8 swap into the old Volvos certainly is intriguing, but I couldn't do it, haha.

FG

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Charles Perry <charles [at] carolina-sound.com> wrote:

I learned on a stick – 82 Volvo 240DL wagon with a four-speed and button overdrive. Under 100 hp. Great teaching car. After I learned to drive, I probably taught a dozen more friends to drive a stick on that car, and we still only went through three clutches in nearly 300,000 miles before rust finally ate it up.

 

Fun story – had to keep a pair of needle nosed pliers in the glovebox. If you got a little too joyful with the 1-2 shift, the shift knob would pop off in your hand. It was just a pressure fit to put back on, but the wiring for the overdrive button would always pop off the button terminals underneath, and so you’d have to pull over and use the needle nosed pliers to re-seat the two terminals inside the knob before you could reinstall the knob itself.

 

Ridiculously, I miss that car. Beige over brown, just like Nicholas Cage’s car in The Rock. And doubly amazing, the girl I dated all through college had that car’s identical twin, except hers was an 83. A guy here in town has one that’s nearly identical to what I had except that he slammed it and did an LS swap to it. It showed up at our Cars and Coffee and I had brief moments of wanting to buy it from him…

 

 

From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+charles=carolina-sound.com [at] ferrarilist.com] On Behalf Of Fellippe Galletta
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2016 4:07 PM
To: Charles Perry
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Anti-theft Device

 

How many of us first learned to drive on a stick?

 

I know we all know how to drive one, but did we all learn on one?

 

Helluva an experience. I think overall it's better than learning on an auto.

 

FG

 

ps - I also learned on non power steering, which is where the obsession must come from. :)

 

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Stephen Sherman <stephensherman44 [at] gmail.com> wrote:

I have been telling my grandkids drive a stick and your car won't get stolen, like every thing I say they ignore, maybe they are ones who are deaf.

Stephen L Sherman

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On Feb 2, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Gary Reed <gary [at] garyreedsales.com> wrote:

Thought you guys might get a kick out this.

 

Gary

 

 

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