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nice.

give the trims a gentle waft with a hot air gun to revive the colour.

Hi,

I thought I recognised this and trawled through completed 740 eBay adds to check.  I know it very well as my father bought in about 1992 or there about from K Cars in York.  My mother then owned it for many years when he replaced it with a P2 V70.  I had it for several years but never really did much with it as other projects/life got in the way.  One of the eBay pictures of it just about to emerge from hibernation in my garage.

Can tell you quite a lot about its history if it’s of interest and glad it’s gone to someone who’s going to look after it🙂

Cheers

Phil

Really glad you like it! The sun roof was sealed shut years ago - so long ago that I don’t ever remember it being any other way. I went with my dad to K Cars to collect the 240 that this one replaced. The 740 was having its pre-delivery inspection prior to being bought by a guy called Barry Swallow who either was or had been a York City player. I think he was even captain of the side in the heady days when they reached the old second division before they crashed out into obscurity. Two years later he part exchanged it for a new one and the old man got first refusal.

Much loved car, Main dealer serviced (K Cars and maybe Ray Chapmans in Malton) and garaged right up until its retirement as main car in about 2002 when it was replaced by the previously mentioned P2 V70. Then spent many years as my mothers run-around hardly doing any miles as the V70 did all the long journeys. I think servicing then went down to local garage level but still done regularly. Having said that, I’ve no idea how old the cam belt is but suspect it is the same age as the fan belt.

It collected its share of battle scars while in my mothers care including one notable incident where she had a bit of a coming together with a large, rather unforgiving, lump of concrete in a multi-storey car park. All these things were repaired but if you look carefully at one of the rear doors (can’t remember which one) you may be able to see evidence of the repair. Cracking paint job though. The firm was called something like Auto Refinishers in Dunnington. During the time she had it, the speedo stopped clocking up miles (common stripped drive gear problem) but i doubt that its out by more than 10,000 miles.

Move on to 2014 and Mums on her own, decides the Volvos are too big and buys herself a Toyota Yaris. Hmm, ok, I bought it and she paid. Not a Volvo but to be fair, it was exactly the right car for her. Sold the V70 for far more than I expected but it was low mileage, immaculate, full service history and people will pay over the odds for that stuff. Didn’t need it myself as I already had a V70 D5. Kept the 740 as it had been a family car for such a long time. Replaced a snapped tank strap and drove it from York to Hampshire where its been up until a few weeks ago when the wife decided for me that enough was enough. I’m sure many of you know how that works....

I drove it around on sunny days until the MOT ran out and then had to replace either one or both rear callipers (not cheap!) to get it through the next one. Still had the odd outing but my 300ZX is really the tool of choice for high days and holidays. Final straw for me was when I started it up one day and industrial quantities of what looked like oil (may have been power steering fluid looking at your earlier post) poured all over the road. Drove it into the garage and forgot about it but really needed it gone in the end as I don’t like the 300ZX outside in the winter.

That AA badge lived on the front of many of our family cars with the first one being a Wolsey 1660. No idea where it came from but I do remember taking it to pieces with the old man to re-paint the yellow bit when I was probably only about 8 or 9.

There was a ton of paperwork with it when sold and the original radio. It also had the moulded floor trays. Will add more as and when (if!) the little grey cells come up with anything else.

Phil

Car has now been lowered 70mm and is also now for sale

Sorry no longer for sale, i bought a turbo engine instead and stop being such a curse word!