In today's video, join me on a 700-mile road trip in a hilariously old Volvo Amazon wagon to drink beer in a field and heckle my friends while they try to fix cars.
What an absolute treat of a roadtrip! #1 I learned that 242 and 244 have a different piece of trim around the sunroof crank. #2 I learned our friend circle still buys beaters to tow their clapped out projects #3 I learned b16s and B18s don't use the same mounts Thanks for getting out in your garage and fixing something!
Our neighbor had a 63 or 64 2-door and once the body completely rotted away from rust, he pulled the engine and transmission out and put it in a newer used Volvo and their kids drove it through college. It just wouldn't die.
Looks like I sold it to the right man.. That's exactly what I would have done to it. Thanks, I enjoy the videos. Terry PS I think I found another set of keys for it.
Very inspirational. If I ever finish my Amazon the plan is to just drive it 12 miles into town and back, but maybe now I'll be inspired to go another 20 miles or so to Franklin..... Wonder about the roll pin. The only ones that come to mind hold the shift forks to the shift shafts and if the gearbox works fine maybe it was just a lazy mechanic who dropped one and didn't want to take things all apart again to find and retrieve it, so he found a spare to plug the hole with...
That’s my hope on the roll pin. I figure the only ones in the transmission are fairly important and their absence would be obvious. I’m going to be putting the M41 in this car pretty quickly. The lack of overdrive at highway speeds is quite the annoyance. Feel free to email me at thebenchracingnetwork@gmail.com, I’d love to meet up sometime.
@@benchracing_network I will do that when things calm down a bit here. I've been away from home for a couple of weeks at a bedside vigil with my wife at her dying dad's side. Something we all have to face eventually. :(
I've driven my modified b20 high compression 122 about 200km from home and the alternator bracket snapped. Can't quite get the nicely made bracket to survive. Unfortunately. I did fix it and drive home. 4500rpm of twin Weber's and extractors for two hours isn't fun.
