ScottishBrick's Emerald 1999 V70 T5 M56
Well carma has a way of trickling down..... especially in the volvo community.
Ive found many cars for many people and love that my craigslist searching finds cars people want and good homes for them.
How this came about is a little different, if not exactly the same, just a little longer.
I met R_Model and Hounddogger last fall at a cars and coffee event I setup. Theyre both local volvo nuts like me. R_Model gets to talking about rebuilding a 960 sedan he has thats a little crunched. I look at it and having a soft spot for classic RWD volvos having grown up in them and having had many adventures in I think 9 (maybe more?) of them and see that its moderately easily reparable. I can weld and see lots of 960s for parts while I'm hunting my white t5m wagon. So we devise a plan to rebuild the 960.
I find R_Model a 960 with a blown motor for parts. We borrow a truck and trailer and retrieve it from rhode island back in November.
Fast forward to last week/end. R_Model spots a 2000 V70R in Emerald on the side of the road at a garage locally. Calls me, sends pics, leaves our numbers. Guy calls us, turns out he wants to sell it. Says come look, make an offer. I go out on easter sunday with Hounddogger and Swedishbriquette and we look at the R wagon. Its not bad at all really, just has a busted angle gear. Im not in love but it's Hounddoggers unicorn. Plus he's got the parts and wont own anythign non awd/5cyl. He makes an offer and gets the car. It was also one owner too.
Two days ago while discussing fixing the emerald vR, Hounddogger sends me a link. To this car. On ebay. Just hiding out in plain sight. I as a bunch of questions, get enough of the answers i'm looking for, run the carfax, decide i'm going to rescue it and give it a good home. And now it is mine.
Quite ironic that we both picked up emerald wagons a few days apart. There will be quite the collection of rare P80 wagons in CT between b mac66 and his venetian R, SonicBlueR and his laser blue R, Hounddogger and his emerald green R, Hilton with the 2000 laser blue vR m66 swap and myself with the emerald green T5M. Im sure im missing people but those are all that i know of in CT, currently
TL;DR Friends find cars for eachother.
