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Originally Posted by Rick V
Interesting find today, my son has a 72 Volvo 164E, that we knew had low production numbers for the states but.......................................
After running the vin and confirming with Volvo, he has the very first one made for the states. It is electronically injected, hence the E and they only brought 1,500 of them in the first year (1972)
It actually isn't in bad shape and he picked the thing up for $150 because the previous owner could not get it running. The kid knows someone and I got it running in a couple of hours.
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Dang I wish I had a local mechanic like you around. Actually I do. 98% of my mechanical work I do myself. I do have a friend that is amazing. He has built well over a hundred 911 engines. He has all the machine tools to do 100% of the rebuild in his barn - shop.
One day while I was at the autocross my 911 started cutting out. I made a bee-line for the house and the engine was just running horrible. I called my friend. He stopped by with a spare DME computer. That was not it. I had bought new flywheel sensors but they are a pain to install so I had not done that. He installed my new crank sensors faster that I could have figured out how to get the old ones out. Still no joy so he checked the coil BINGO. I had one of those because I was going to replace it since it was 25 years old. He had my car running like new in no time. He was well compensated for his efforts to come to my garage on a Sunday and heal my car. He did not ask for anything at all but that was NOT gonna happen. I even mailed his wife a gift card to a local restaurant I know he likes. The gift card was enclosed in a thank you card. I addressed it to her as a thanks for letting me borrow her husband for the afternoon. I asked that she treat him to his favorite prime rib dinner there and have one for herself.