[CJFusco]

The Porsche is running like a dream, I will be purchasing a new car (my first ever - probably a Mini Cooper S) within the next couple weeks, and we have new upstairs neighbors moving in shortly. All this combined means that I'm going to be getting rid of my 1990 Volvo 740.

The car has some kind of charging/draining problem, that I initially thought was the alternator. I bought a new alternator, and that didn't do the trick. I replaced the battery - no dice. I had Volvo experts come look at the car, and they can't figure out why the car won't stay charged. I bought it for something like $800 about 3 years ago, basically just to get me through a winter, and I think it's gone above and beyond what I expected from it. It has 255,000 miles on it, and I think it's kind of a shame to junk it because the engine is strong and the transmission is relatively new.

As I see it, my options are: donate it to a charity and get the $500 tax deduction, sell it to a junk yard for $100 or so, find a place to park it for a bit and place an ad on eBay/Craigslist for a parts car with local pick-up. What do you guys think? I need to get rid of this thing fairly quickly...