trabitom's Mk1 343 GL Touring

[SteveP]

Good work tom, looks like a nice set of repairs! In some ways that car is remarkably tidy!

[Ronnie]

Nice work Tom - that car is really coming on.

I'm looking forward to getting a new DD so I can do a bit of that kind of thing!

[foggyjames]

The mk1 front valances don't seem to rust...it's a mk2/3 thing...

cheers

James

[pistonpen paultje]

Jep, correct...But the nose coin do! Quite hard to get a good one. And this one sure is!

[trabitom99]

My little 343 now has it's MOT for another two years, and I'm over the moon Just two advisories - one of the braided fuel lines going to the carb is a little frayed, and the battery plus pole doesn't have a plastic cap on it (WTF ?).

But that doesn't stop me feeling really, really chuffed. 1000 thanks to Rainer from the DAF IG who really put a lot of hours in towards the end.

A few restauration pics will follow, but here're some of the car as it stands now:







I bought it thinking "this'll be a laugh until the MOT runs out" but it feels really satisfying to have given it a new lease of life. Even if my own input was negligible (the DAF guys really were a massive help).

Tom

[volvosneverdie]

well done Tom mate!
passed first time eh. Good working!

looks great too. Almost new. You mustve been doing some serious polishing.

[volvodspec]

nice result Tom she lookes like a real beauty!

the battery plus pole doesn't have a plastic cap on it (WTF ?).

big bullshit if you ask me..

and the famous braided "leaker" fuellines last week i got to work on a 1977 343 still with its original fuel lines wich smelled a bit petrolwise. when the guy fired up the engine you could see petrol pooring out of the fuel lines

[trabitom99]

looks great too. Almost new. You mustve been doing some serious polishing.

the second polish in 6 months. More than my daily gets in 9 years

nice result Tom she lookes like a real beauty!and the famous braided "leaker" fuellines last week i got to work on a 1977 343 still with its original fuel lines wich smelled a bit petrolwise. when the guy fired up the engine you could see petrol pooring out of the fuel lines

Erm, maybe I'd better see to those too then

Tom

[Cutler]

very nice looking car!!

[volvodspec]

main problem with the stock fuell lines, is that they were not ment for use with unleaded fuell.. 25+ years of experience does the rest

[MCHUDD]

Hi Tom..
Your car looks fantastic.Well done.I like the stripes.
Cheers Mark.

[foggyjames]

Epic win! I see my attempts to get the TUV man to refuse to pass it unless the Scirocco spoiler was removed (and posted to me) failed...

cheers

James

[trabitom99]

I see my attempts to get the TUV man to refuse to pass it unless the Scirocco spoiler was removed (and posted to me) failed...

The spoilers (front and rear) are all nicely declared in the car's papers, there's little he could've said about it

I did a bit of research on that spoiler - it really comes from a Mk1 Scirocco!


There is one on Ebay US ATM
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayI ... 0375424054
but I'm sure it's not hard to find in Europe if you wait a bit ...

It seems there is no such thing as a "Volvo 300-series MkI rear spoiler", Volvo's own ones only appeared with the MkII 360 GLT. Before that, the wider Zender spoiler was fitted - the Oettinger, the Touring, the R-Sport versions of the MkI all have the cutout for the bootlid button.

Tom

[sven360]

Nice work.

Lovely looking car

[foggyjames]

Oh yeah, I checked that a while ago...definitely mk1 Scirocco. I've had an eBay search set up for a while, but UK only. DUH!

Shipping on large items from the US is abusive...but I'll look into it.

cheers

James