kampman
dunning-krugersquirt
- Joined
- Aug 14, 2008
- Location
- Columbus, O.
It's been about 8 years since I sold my last 240 and I've been looking for another one for a while. This 245 showed up in the orphan thread about a month ago and it caught my attention since it was about 2 hours away from me in southern Ohio. I haven't seen many clean 240s for sale in Ohio in the last few years, to say nothing of turbo cars, so I finally gave into temptation and drove down to check it out this past Saturday. It followed me home and here we are.
It's an '84 model, non-intercooled, with the AW71 and black leather. As far as I can tell it was a WV car for most if not all of its life. A very long time ago TBer John242Ti sent me a link to a blue turbo wagon at the Cincy IAAI auction and the seller confirmed that he bought it from there. I'm almost certain that it's the same car. The seller was originally going to LS swap it but I think he realized it was a rare find and stored it instead. I don't think it's been driven at all since he bought it.
It appears that it got written off after a small underhood fire - I think a fuel line leaked and/or there was a wiring problem. It must have been put out quickly, though. It barely singed the hood blanket and firewall insulation and besides the wiring the only casualties appear to be the dipstick handles and some other plastic bits in that area. The wiring is a bit of a mess but probably salvageable.
The body, though...wow. There's barely a speck of rust underneath. There's no way this car ever saw salt. One of the buttcheeks is crunched in pretty badly and someone cut the mudflap mounts off but that's about the extent of the body issues.
I want to see if I can get the wiring and fuel system cleaned up and get it running on the K-Jet. I also want to get the driver's window to roll up. If that works out then I'll probably leave it alone, I'm not that much of a purist but (wiring aside) it's an extremely original car and there probably aren't many like it left.
So far all I've done is drop the fuel tank for cleaning. I installed a battery and verified that it cranks, but I haven't tried to take it any further. I really don't want to push a bunch of rust through the fuel system (any more than already has been, anyway...)
Nice improvised throttle cable...
Engine bay full of spaghetti...
Ground zero for the crispy stuff:
Popped the oil cap and the cam looks good, oil is very clean.
Doesn't seem like the injector lines have ever been disturbed.
Nice door pockets:
Floorboards are all this clean.
Looking up at the driver's buttcheek and quarter seam, it's perfect:
Inside the trunk well is spotless:
https://i.imgur.com/r8fIE1D.mp4
I already dropped the fuel tank and the metal above is bone dry.
https://imgur.com/nwn47Ai.mp4
It's an '84 model, non-intercooled, with the AW71 and black leather. As far as I can tell it was a WV car for most if not all of its life. A very long time ago TBer John242Ti sent me a link to a blue turbo wagon at the Cincy IAAI auction and the seller confirmed that he bought it from there. I'm almost certain that it's the same car. The seller was originally going to LS swap it but I think he realized it was a rare find and stored it instead. I don't think it's been driven at all since he bought it.
It appears that it got written off after a small underhood fire - I think a fuel line leaked and/or there was a wiring problem. It must have been put out quickly, though. It barely singed the hood blanket and firewall insulation and besides the wiring the only casualties appear to be the dipstick handles and some other plastic bits in that area. The wiring is a bit of a mess but probably salvageable.
The body, though...wow. There's barely a speck of rust underneath. There's no way this car ever saw salt. One of the buttcheeks is crunched in pretty badly and someone cut the mudflap mounts off but that's about the extent of the body issues.
I want to see if I can get the wiring and fuel system cleaned up and get it running on the K-Jet. I also want to get the driver's window to roll up. If that works out then I'll probably leave it alone, I'm not that much of a purist but (wiring aside) it's an extremely original car and there probably aren't many like it left.
So far all I've done is drop the fuel tank for cleaning. I installed a battery and verified that it cranks, but I haven't tried to take it any further. I really don't want to push a bunch of rust through the fuel system (any more than already has been, anyway...)
Nice improvised throttle cable...
Engine bay full of spaghetti...
Ground zero for the crispy stuff:
Popped the oil cap and the cam looks good, oil is very clean.
Doesn't seem like the injector lines have ever been disturbed.
Nice door pockets:
Floorboards are all this clean.
Looking up at the driver's buttcheek and quarter seam, it's perfect:
Inside the trunk well is spotless:
https://i.imgur.com/r8fIE1D.mp4
I already dropped the fuel tank and the metal above is bone dry.
https://imgur.com/nwn47Ai.mp4