Hi everyone!

I run the Australian Volvo forums, Oz Volvo, and recently acquired my first '85 360GLT as a project car to rally. I paid $400 and it has 6 weeks of rego left on it, so for now I'm just driving it day-to-day to build up a relationship with the car. As it's stock standard for the time being I thought I'd post here instead of the projects category.

The car is generally pretty good; the interior is all intact, but it has a list of hilarious little things that keep me entertained:

• If you give it too much jandal at the lights, the head unit falls out
• All tail lights work at their leisure only
• Occasionally one of the cylinders doesn't fire at low RPM
• The paint on the roof and bonnet sucks
• The fuel pump (according to the seller) is on its way out
• The clutch and gearbox are surprisingly tip-top!

My work list is:

• Replace head unit and actually bolt this one in
• Bend all the bulb pins so the lights are a bit more consistent
• Replace the oil, coolant, spark plugs, leads, rotor and cap, check the grounds
• Replace the gearbox fluid and diff fluid
• Replace the tyres with some road-legal rally tyres
• Investigate power-steering conversion

Other than that I love the damn thing. Handling is great and it has decent torque. Further down the line once I start rallying it, I may swap out the B200 for a B230 and fun Megasquirt with a decent head and camshaft.

I need to take more pictures, but here's two I took last weekend:

Looks and sounds pretty nice.

I was going to use a vauxhall corsa (holden barina) Electric power steering column. Standard manual rack can be used and just the coumn needs to be modified. Well worth a look. Much more efficient than standard power steering