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My second car was the 1970 Volvo 145 Wagon, with the older style grille and third row seat...facing backwards which folded into the floor - very cool! B-20-B engine with 2 Stromberg Carbs. was basically indestructible. Got it used in 1976 w/70K miles...fell asleep at the wheel during a photo assignment on July 7th, 1977 - drove off the road...and woke up to see that the ODO registered 77,777 miles - on 7/7/77!!!
How I loved that car...with its life ending in spectacular fashion (at over 250K miles) when it backfired through a carb and caught fire - while parked in a row of other cars...with myself and a buddy pushing the conflagrating hulk into the middle of the road to protect other adjacent cars from catching fire!
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