Whatsthisthen?

[mickthemaverick]

How about a 760 Turbo?

[NewcastleFalcon]

So what's the lady owner's name

The other thing which may help is....how on earth do I know so much about the car

Here's another factoid the dealer was John Darke Volvo and at the service on 30.05.91 the mileometer read 9.665 miles!

REgards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Make that a 740 GLE ? Took a punt and checked your familiar auction site where I found Mrs Joan Smith!!!!
I think that's called intuitive research!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Make that a 740 GLE ? Took a punt and checked your familiar auction site where I found Mrs Joan Smith!!!!
I think that's called intuitive research!!

That's it done Mick, good work Nicely presented interesting car On the back of some of those details I think I'll give Lincolnshire and outing on POTD. We had a little holiday there a couple or so years ago just because we had never been there before!

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

I can possibly find a couple of shots from our visit to the Battle of Britain flight a couple of years ago too. We stayed in a brilliant caravan, details available, and I was able to fish the lake while SWMBO sat on our terrace and chatted to me on my "private" fishing stage.

[GiveMeABreak]

Who's Mrs Joan Smith when she's at home? And more worryingly, am I supposed to know her?

[mickthemaverick]

No Marc, she's just the lady that bought the car in 1990 and is now selling it with the fullest history I've ever seen because she has retired from driving:
https://mathewsons.co.uk/auctions/aucti ... 40-2-3-gle

[NewcastleFalcon]

You wouldnt believe it but I just put Volvo 740 GLE 1990 for sale into a search engine and number one out is not our Volvo 740 owned by Mrs Joan Smith and Supplied by "John Darke Volvo Louth" but another example of the provenance chasing writing of classic car ads.....

Volvo Classic Cars 740 For Sale | Car and Classic
www.carandclassic.co.uk › list › 740

Time -warp condition Volvo 740 GLE Auto 2.3 Estate. First registered to a Mr Skelton of 'Metal Oil Treatments ltd supplied from John Wallwork Volvo Cheshire on .

REgards Neil

Its the only place you get that sort of trivia on a vehicle

[mickthemaverick]

Just goes to show that not wanting to search on the phone may have actually saved me some time!

[GiveMeABreak]

No Marc, she's just the lady that bought the car in 1990 and is now selling it with the fullest history I've ever seen because she has retired from driving:
https://mathewsons.co.uk/auctions/aucti ... 40-2-3-gle

Phew, that's a relief.

[Richard_C]

A vaguely relevant Volvo comment. My sister in law had a 2CV. Then she got a job with a Scandinavian Pharma company. On her first day she was issued with her shiny new company car - a 740 GL in a sort of mid powder blue colour. She is barely 5 ft tall, so it always appeared that the car was driverless especially from behind because that huge headrest hid her entirely. She lived in a very small cottage, the boot became permanent overflow storage/wardrobe so was always full - if you went anywhere you had to put your bags/picnic/walking gear on the back seat. An impressive amount of junk was hauled up and down the country.

Some bits of the design-by-ruler were pretty good. In the 940 estate the back seats were slightly raised so occupants had a decent view ahead. We had a couple on our company fleet and I was tempted when children and prams came along. The V70 wagon arrived so got one of those instead. (Sadly Citroen weren't on the list, if they had been the XM Estate would have been a magnificent choice) The V70 had a 5 pot engine and it always annoyed me, even though I wasn't paying, that the service invoices showed 2 x sets of 4 plugs. Somewhere a Volvo garage foreman is a spark plug millionaire by keeping the leftovers.

[mickthemaverick]

More of a Wheresthisthen but this shot is from a trip to a GP in 2017 in my chip oil powered Delica:

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and this is where I was when I took it:

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[NewcastleFalcon]

Thats going to have to be a researched one Mick! Chris did do some pics of the Stelvio Pass recently so as a random TOH complete guess I'll go for that expecting to be wrong.

Did Lewis Hamilton win it?

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

The random TOH is working well!! It is indeed the Stelvio Pass, going up which caused the car to overheat and this pitstop with the bonnet open!
And yes Lewis took pole and won from Bottas, full info here

[mickthemaverick]

A bit extra on our Monza trip, when we arrived all the campsites were full but a site right next to the circuit squeezed us in under the playground swings:

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