Take my time you said!, well theres a bit of a story to tell so ok!

 I don't have much going for me at the moment! One i'm Australian which is cool but it doesn't encourage
 my addiction. Those are two words which in my lifetime I would like to see a little closer together, see
 Australians for some reason think Volvos are slow, ugly, rich people cars which should not be allowed to
 be driven on our roads, I too was a believer of this until 93' when my family's Holden got stolen and
 trashed we were not too well off and to my fathers disgust he could only afford to buy an 82'244GL.
 Australians are so to speak two car people -you're either a FORD man or a HOLDEN man and this is the
 way it has been for ever over here HOLDEN is the australian division of GM built and designed here
 by us and ford are the american cars built and designed here by us.

 Well it was the family car for about 2 years until it blew number 3 spark plug out of the head. So it sat
 down the end of our garage waiting for dad to bring it back to life while we moved in to our second
 volvo which was another 82' 244GL this one was Yellow we drove it until 97 when i got my licence and
 it became my first car.

 Once i got my hands on it it lasted 5 weeks before i was hit by a drunken driver traveling at 80/kmh
 while i turned a corner he hit me dead centre on the passengers side B pillar and spun me through the
 intersection in to a side street where a 4WD ran up my ass. The car was a write off but the thing that
 amazed me is that i climbed out with out a scratch and ran straight to the guys car who hit me! He was
 driving a Subaru wagon about an 80 model well the gear box had been pushed up into the cabin almost
 pinning him in the car. his car was totaled the roof was buckled and all of the glass had popped from the
 impact. I at this time still didn't know that i had been hit up the ass and i hadn't seen the damage to my
 car so i ran back to the car to get my phone i noticed the passenger side seat to be hard up against the
 drivers i saw the rear window was missing but the front was intact and it was then i found the car was
 still running and the CD player was still going playing the song "Alive" by Pearl Jam. I walked round the
 passengers side as i rang 000 and saw what had actually happened the impact had destroyed the
 passengers side from the front door back and round on to the boot the roof had buckled and the
 transmission tunnel had collapsed the diff housing was bent and the boot was kinked up but still locked
 (it can still be opened and closed with the key)

 so as i was calmly telling the operator that there had been an accident i passed out from shock.
 When i came to my parents had arrived at the scene the police officer who showed up first had taken
 my phone and searched through it finding HOME written there he rang the number and got them there i
 took a breath test and cleared that but the driver of the wagon ringed in at 0.06 and our states limit is
 0.05.

 The police woman i spoke to as they hauled my wreck on to the tow truck said had i of been driving
 any other car in that age bracket i would have been very seriously injured or killed but what really got
 me was that if i had a passenger in the volvo they would have climbed out ok too but if i was in
 another car they would be dead!

 I still have the wreck in the side yard my father uses it for parts on his first volvo hes got my motor and
 transmission and i use it for parts on my 79' 244GLE which i am rebuilding with a little australian twist. I
 also own a 75' 242DL which sits out the front of my house waiting for the 79 to run so it can get
 another chance at life.

 SO as you can see i am a little addicted to the Swedish brick which puts me in a little bit of a bind as i
 work as a mechanic for Ford I love Volvos and i'm australian which means i should own a Holden.
 But i said stuff them all i personally started to bring the words Volvo and australia together with my 79'
 it has a HOLDEN 202 blue motor and three speed trans in it now and is only weeks off hitting the
 roads to stick it to the Volvo haters!

 "People in glass houses should not annoy people who drive bricks"

 --
 Crash#