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How Many Cars Can I Buy With $1000 At Auction??
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ม.ค. 2024
- Palmers Garage: palmersgarage....
I went to this auction in North Ferrisburg Vermont and bought as many cars as I could for $1000.
Volvo 240, 244, 245
That’s a great deal. I bought one for half the price you paid for three. Quick note, the rougher non running one definitely has more than 65k. You can tell the odometer is broken, because the trip is set at zero. They can be fixed with a new gear for less than 30 bucks.
Yes definitely 😂
Ironically, a Volvo truck, hauling three vintage Volvo Cars.
I think they are cool as well.
Haha yep
@@ARuralVermonterQqjmcb182 you guys missed that very interesting pun.😉
As for the odometer, Volvo actually did something very brilliant which no other manufactured to my knowledge has ever done and that is they put a special trip computer underneath the hood that works essentially like an OBD one system, and it keeps track of the actual mileage on the vehicle in the event, that the odometer ever stops counting. So you can get the mileage on those cars and correct it accordingly. A good friend of mine Robert Spinner, who is also known as Robert DIY on TH-cam and of course David Bello who is a long time TH-camr and Volvo enthusiast would know how to go about this procedure if you’re curious.
cool!
244 = 4 door, 242 = 2 door/coupe, 245 = 5 door/ wagon. Love to see 240’s on the channel
And after 1987 they called 244 and 245 just 240 🫣
You paid less for all three than what one would’ve cost here in Sweden 😮
in norway they go for over 5000 USD 50k NOK
You can never go wrong buying a rear wheel drive Redblock Volvo
Awesome find!! I have an 87 240, got it for 700 bucks back in 2013. Also located in Vermont! The 87 most likely just has a bad fuel pump if it isnt starting intermittently. Remember only the main fuel pump being bad will make the car not start. The pre-pump being bad won't give you any symptoms.
It costs $ 940.00 to rent a Ford focus for 5 days in New Jersey so yes, he got a fantastic deal for sure..
Ummm, that car starts, runs and stops, right? Worth it.
3 Volvo 240s for $900...I'm jealous
Imagine driving down the expressway and seeing all those Swedish tanks being moved across the state. You'd think there was a war coming. Lol Awesome scores for sure!
And there being transported by a Volvo truck, it’s a god damn Volvasion
hahaha
Hey man nice meeting you over at the auction. Looks like you got away pretty well, should have some fun stuff to work on.
Good to meet you!
Hard to find those Volvos for sale in NY/NJ area but if you do find them- they always sell for $ 4,500.00 minimum regardless of what dilapidated shape they are in...
Great buy! Looks like new, no rust in wheel arches or doors. I have three 240 and they are not close to this condition, all the best from Sweden.
Regarding the radio/stereo:
There is a plastic frame to fit where original radio is mounted.
This allows you to mount any standard aftermarket radio.
There is also the possibility to mount a radio in the lower compartment (in front of the gear shifter) with a similar frame.
But it's better to mount it in the upper pocket.
There is also a special frame to mount several gauges (volt, oil pressure etc) in a row in the upper compartment.
Ps: Many car enthusiasts here puts a Chevy small block in Volvo 240.
Then you need a 1031 rear axle with a diff, a support between the front shock towers and one support going from each shock tower to the firewall to handle the torque.
/A Swedish Volvo guy.
Man, I love older Volvos. They look super cool and are built like absolute tanks!
Volvos have their own amplifier that you need to remove before adding an aftermarket radio. Also want to watch out for the strange little seal on the top of the water pump. They tend to swell up in a leak. Keep an eye on the timing boats too. There’s a special tool you need to do a timing belt job on those engines.
My grandpa drove his 1965 volvo pv544 sport all the way to the southern most tip of Argentina to Maryland and back. Great cars. Probably the second most reliable car brand behind cord of course. Great purchase young man.
Damnnnn all the Volvos and they were looking mint too!!!! They go by the door numbers, so a 244 is the 4 door car and the 245 is the wagon. 242, 2 door. My 245 had the same window problem. Less of an issue now but happens once in a blue moon. Sanding the contacts behind the fuse box helps a lot/under the power window control, and if it still isn't working; a good slam or 2 on the door makes it work.
Great find. I've owned a few of these Volvos over the years and really liked them. 244 was the model for the sedan for the earlier years & 245 was the wagon - in the early 80s they switched to just calling them all 240s but some fans stuck with it.
You're right the 90s ones with the later injection setup are the ones to have ideally.
Dude, you scored. Even the beige one with over quarter of a million miles on it. They last forever. I have a 99 Volvo S70 with 74 thousand and change and it’s a fully loaded beast. You and your friend should hang on to them, drive them and you’ll get your money’s worth back a thousand times. Great deal and yes, you definitely jinxed yourself!!! 🤣👍🏻
My friends Dad had 3 one I remember. It had 2 carbs and run forever. At the drivein you could hid two in the trunk. They could crawl out from the back seat, and we would go canping and fishing in the 1962. It always ran.
1st appears sold in 80’s the 2nd and 3 rd sold 90’s. Great cars, easy to repair. Most missed item is the oil breather filter. Needs changing, will cause oil leaks. The one you left the window own, drove it in Europe and was a very good model.
Amazing steal!! As a 240 gl 1988 owner, I can say, well done! Greetings from the Netherlands
Hey fellow Vermonter! Was watching flying wheels in NH and it recommended your channel. I was no kidding im up in the NEK been considering getting into flipping cars its been a long time since ive been to the Williston auction. Like the videos you got a new subscriber.
He’s back!! So glad to see an upload again!!
Good Volvos best to change the whole column for the ignition switch it is a bolt on job i did it years ago and was advised by a volvo specialist to change whole steering column
With the window which won't go up, try swapping a switch from another one of the windows. Gunked-up switches are the first item to check. Pull out the rectangular piece holding the window switches and door looks. The once which keeps stalling, try unplugging the AMM downstream of the air cleaner and mounted to the side of the shock tower. Make sure the ignition is fully off, and then disconnect the plug on it. Then see if it idles. When it is unplugged, it will go into a limp-home mode. It will run but not great. That is one of the quick tests to see if the AMM is functional.
Before you swap it you can just tap on it repeatedly and quickly and see if it cleans itself enough to work at least once. has worked for me on multiple occasions.
Hey, greetings from Wisconsin! Lol, dude, you got those at 2011 prices 🤑 there is an excellent 240 community for resources on a huge variety of build activities.....or they are awesome just as they came from the factory. Hope you enjoy them.
Hell yeah, lived about 30 seconds down the road from there
Oh dear, I could not be trusted with a room of cheap 240s. Those 240s are great. The odometer is a well known point of failure, cheap small gears just go bad eventually.
As for the automatic transmissions, they are pretty good, not too easy to service though as the dipstick tube is really, really difficult to remove. Also the kickdown cable, if it's bad will make the car very slow.
Lol 240s are fkn garbage😂
@@MidnightPolaris800 I'm sorry you feel that way.
@@connorPiper0 I agree, but not because I feel that way, because of what you wrote!
Oh man, about half this video was filmed around the corner from my house! So weird seeing one of my favorite youtubers driving around the same streets I drive around all the time.
sweet!
Awesome as always.Thanks for sharing and taking us along
Not a bad deal in todays crazy world !
Good deal on 3 cars. Here in Illinois one of those cars would have been $1000.
Well, that's $300 for the car, $700 for graft. Eddy Burke and Mickey Madigan gotta land their "tuna"!
2:49 thats an Austin A35 not a Healey although they are related and the drive train is very similar to an Austin-Healey Sprite (Frogeye) the Austin Healey name was never used on anything other than the 100, 100/6, 3000 and the Sprite Frogeye or bugeye as yanks like to call it. 😀
As a Swede i Love VolvoCars. My first was a Amazon..
Man over 2 months......we need some content!
He must have become a full time over the road trucker and doesn’t have time to make TH-cam videos now.
This is my crack, I have 2 of these and I'm mad jealous you got 3 for 900$. I'd love a nice condition rust free sedan though, mine is cooked.
Congrats ... surprised u didnt pick the wagon as well 😆. Love your vids
Nice score. I grew up driving and working on thees cars. They have crankshaft position sensors that like to fail and cause them to be very hard to start. They also have distributors that can get worn out. The stuck down window. I remember that with old Volvos you kind of learn to be very careful what windows you roll down because they might not go back up. Lol.
Hey man! Happy New Year!!
Always enjoy your vids, we got 4 inches of snow here in Northern iowa ❤
Awesome score, Rural !!! Good on you. Happy and a prosperous New Year !!!!
I saw the video with the old Volvo's, I've got a Volvo 740GLE and when I sold it,it has 500k kilometers/312.500miles😁 and he was still in a very good shape,no rust at all. It was an six cylinder diesel from VW LT25👍👍,it was from the early eighties.
So, now you got a new subscriber from France.
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sweet!
Crazy good deal! In my part of town you’ll be lucky to get a used lawnmower for that price!
love these old volvos! Keep uptodating us with them
I think you got a good deal I would have got the wagon if I could have wagons are cool
Great video. Please post more Volvo content soon. I want to see more of those old Swedish girls. Like others posting here I'd wager that the cold start problem is related to fuel pressure. There is a lot of online guidance for k-jet systems here in you tube and also online forums. I've had really good luck locating parts for my 1980 242 so you should be able to get them going with a little work.
Great deal great video ! Keep em coming !
Hope you can come back with an update soon man. I miss your videos. I know you’ll be graduating college right about now so I get why you’ve been so busy.
Hoping he'll be back!
1993 was the last year Volvo 240 series was produced. The driving school I used had one of the last cars from the production line and I drove it and took my driving exam in it.
Had a 91 240GL Silver with black leather interior pretty sharp cleaned up
I think someone has already commented. Volvo numbers are 3-digit. First is the series number (2-series in this case). Second is the number of cylinders (most are 4-cylinder, but they did make some with 6 cylinders).
Third digit is the number of doors (4 for a sedan, 5 for a station wagon, and 2 for some of their specials).
In the early 1980s they axed the third digit for the number of doors and swapped it for a zero.
So the 244 and 245 both became 240.
Your videos are great, waiting for more to come! Do more gmt800 trucks, overall popular and good trucks, maybe an avalanche or Escalade.
Thats not a bad deal some of these going for too much these days. Ive heard of palmers garage def gonna stop by sometime
Do it!
I'm 60 now , but over the years I've had a lot of Volvo's , 100 series , 200 series , 300 series , 700 series and 900 series , all very good solid cars if not very exciting to drive
@johnshaw4140 ......my old volvo 480 was exciting to drive on ice/snow :D ...........ive owned about 15 volvos over the years.....i wouldnt buy anything else.....currently volvo v40 D4 190hp
Thats awesome I’ve been seeing the marketplace ad for this auction for a few weeks now I thought I recognized that brick collection haha
That’s how I found it!
@@ARuralVermonterQqjmcb182Nice. I’m in Maine but make frequent trips to St. Johnsbury and Newport.
Man, I love all your videos, I have watched all them a few times.
Thanks!!
In the UK the 3 Volvo's would have been scrapped years ago , generally you don't see cars over 20 years old. Here once cars are worth very little they just get junked .
Some of those Volvos are notorious for Coil problems. They're easy to find and are the same as a Chrysler slant 6 coil.
My apologies if you addressed this in a previous video, but how did you get a black eye when you and your bro’s drove that old van to the beach?
I live about 15 minutes up route 7 from this guy’s barn. I stopped in to a “garage sale” he was having there last summer, but he was asking a lot for every car at that point
Well good prices this time at least haha
@@ARuralVermonterQqjmcb182 congrats! Those are killer deals!
I think you bought some good deals.
If you get one of the Volvo in good running shape trade me 😅
I’ve got a 2000 Sebring convertible JCI
116k
Clean title
Everything works except the top goes up and down manually
Im on the east coast and have wanted a 240 for a while
Love your content just tossing it out
Look behind dash for O/D relays being crushed by clip... if not crushed yet. Save yourself some headache and rescue it. Clips too strong once plastic relay case gets brittle.
Damn, I like these 240s very much! In my country you can buy 240 in very tired condition for 600 dollars. The biege and the silver ones could have price around 1700-2500 bucks.
You are a blessed man to get 3 volvo 240's for $800.
If only ONE was a standard transmission...great ice racers!
Volvo 240 series- 242=2 door sedan. 244=4 door sedan. 245 = wagon-5 doors. Later years of the series, they just called them all "240". Best ones were the earlier ones with Bosch K-Jetronic fuel injection. Avoid the 81-83ish ones with the electronic F.I. BILL in Renton
Man I am remember when cars looked less me this lol… it’s pretty incredible how far the auto industry wgrn it comes to technology, looks and reliability for the most part
Vermont must have led the country in Volvo sales in the 80s!
Why no upload for a month?
2 months.
3 months
@@rakeshshetty9235 seems he’s retired from TH-cam.
He's got his own life, TH-cam pretty clearly isn't his full time job. Doesn't owe us anything lol.
@@abou824 he was a college student who lived with his parents so in actuality it was his only job.
I'll never get bored of old Volvos
244 was 4 door sedan.
245 was the 5 door wagon.
They gave up in the end, and called them all 240s, I'm told.
why is there so many? Did a Volvo horder die?
Haha they liked Volvos and we’re ready to sell
I asked about that wagon and they wanted 5k . What a bargain for all three of those !
So is flipping cars what you do for a living?
A bit of tlc and you will make a tidy profit. Well done! Good to see you.
Been a while, thanks for posting.......
Those Volvos are all fuel injected. Carburetors have been long gone since the 70s or maybe even 60s for Volvos but by the 80s they were all fuel injected. My guess is that the blue one probably needs a complete fuel system overhaul. It happens on those cars when they sit for long periods of time.
The blue 240 that has a hard cold start is exhibiting the classic symptoms of a bad mass airflow sensor, my old 91 was hard on them. By the way they only weighed 3300 pounds
3230 lbs for a 265- that had the V6 PRV lump that was also used in the Delorean. The base model 244s, of which these are, weigh in at 2800 lbs.
Given their brickness, and history of being very tough, you’d THINK they weigh 4500 lbs each.
Great score on the three cars.
Can’t wait to see the progress on these three.
Love seeing the big brother Volvo pulling the little brother Volvos around 😂😂
Happy New Year Mr Vermonter hope you are doing well
That is a very Vermont collection of cars...
If you ever come across a 1st generation Saturn SL2 (1991 to 1995), I'm interested!
That's a great deal!
That seems fun. If you like fixing cars and selling them after, it’s a cool gig. On average how much labor and materials are you willing to spend on a car like this? And have you ever gotten to a situation where it’s not worth fixing and had to part ways and sell the car for parts on eBay?
Hey bro. Thanks for making this video. I believe there is quite a Volvo "following" here in Vermont. You might actually make a profit on those cars...Maybe. LOL. Looks like you're on your way to 100K subs. Thanks for representing Vermont.
Thanks!
Live those cars for the price!! ❤
3 Rally cars. Atta boy!
I saw a post on facebook about this collection now I regret not going
Love these videos
Happy New Year! I love the videos!
Is it ironic how the beat up Volvos start easier than the truck that is hauling them?
Only in the North can you score cars for so cheap. More entertainment than thé Arizona auctions.
The one that keeps cutting out sounds like it needs a fuel pump relay or one of the pumps themselves are going bad (two pumps on these cars, one inline and one intank.)
fuel pump & filter
Man those volvos go for a ton out here
Recommend upping the fuse for the fuel pump
Also injector seals go bad on the 1980s Volvos