It’s not. After an enjoyable day of tooling around on the 1800, installing my new Crane XR700 Fireball electronic ignition, I decided I would finally get around to posting a useful article here, describing what I went through and how others might get rid of their own car’s points and condensors. After all, the ignition [...]

OK, so I made this little animation with the intention of doing something with it eventually (I’m a Flash programmer by trade), but apparently, it’s not going to happen anytime soon. So, in the hopes that it makes somebody happy, here you go: So where’s the front bumper? Erm… my car doesn’t have one at [...]

So I decided to go for a ride today. It’s been a busy summer, and I’ve been ignoring my 1800 lately: After getting it safely set up in a garage of its own, I’ve done little more than look at it in the past three months. Never before has the 1800 had such a long [...]

Sad followup to this article can be found here. It’s only taken a year, but I’ve done it: I can now tell you the exact time of day — simply by looking at the clock in my 1800′s dashboard! If this doesn’t sound like a feat to you, you obviously haven’t ridden in a Volvo [...]

I’ve been pretty jealous lately of owners of vintage VW Bugs, Cooper Minis, Ford Mustangs and Thunderbirds who once again have their cars in the public spotlight now that their parent companies have re-introduced the brands. Hell, even the Dodge Charger is making a comeback. Meanwhile, I’ve also been browsing around the newly redesigned Volvo [...]

The garage is finally starting to shape up: I made use recently of the built-in workbench left by the previous owner, and this week I added a MIG welder, the Hobart Handler 140 to my arsenal of tools. Now to just figure out how to use the !@#%$@ thing. Any suggestions?

OK, now it’s officially sad: I’m blogging from the garage tonight. I spent most of yesterday putting together and setting up an old PC with a wireless card, and now I can surf the Web for Volvo 1800 info without even leaving the car. Something tells me a “garage cam” is coming soon. Yeah, my [...]