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Hello everyone! My name is Stephen! i'm in school right now and live in Greensboro, NC. I've lurked on this site FOREVER and just finally made a username. I've had many different kinds of cars/trucks, but right now i've got a focus (my DD) and a 1990 volvo 740 GL (my project). I've lowered the car in the couple years i've had it, but after going to the ISO/Stance:nation meet last weekend, I want to lower my car more and poke the wheels out and all that mess. I've seen a few 240s that have are sitting nice, but not many clean 740s, and I hope to change that.
Well before I go posting a ton of pictures, I want to give a short history of my volvo. I got it for free from a family friend. its my seventh volvo i've had, and is the biggest POS of them all haha. I first was going to use it as my DD because i had a mustang that got like 12 mpg, but then i sold the mustang, got the focus, and now i can do whatever i want to with the volvo.
the car had been sitting for probably 4 years before I got it. it was nice and moldy and nasty. I spent a whole two days cleaning it and it actually turned out nice. here is what it looked like the first day i brought it home
I did some work on it, lowered it some, and got a hold of some paint cans and came up with this:
The car kept having problems, so i parked it, as i moved 2 hours away. I got some of the problems fixed, and now its pretty much good to go. I just have to drive it around town and make sure its somewhat reliable (as reliable as a 20 year old volvo that sat for ~5 years can be haha), then DD it. Here is how it looks right now
(yes, that is a GTR badge haha.) i've got some plans for it.. some short term ones are to cut some more coils. I already cut 1.5 all around, I am going to do another 1.5 so I can get it sitting loww. spending a couple hundred on new wheels isn't in the budget right now, so what I'm going to do is just use the stock wheels until I either get spacers or different wheels. thats pretty much it haha. I hope to get some good ideas from some of yall's awesome cars. Thanks!!
Stephen
Well before I go posting a ton of pictures, I want to give a short history of my volvo. I got it for free from a family friend. its my seventh volvo i've had, and is the biggest POS of them all haha. I first was going to use it as my DD because i had a mustang that got like 12 mpg, but then i sold the mustang, got the focus, and now i can do whatever i want to with the volvo.
the car had been sitting for probably 4 years before I got it. it was nice and moldy and nasty. I spent a whole two days cleaning it and it actually turned out nice. here is what it looked like the first day i brought it home
I did some work on it, lowered it some, and got a hold of some paint cans and came up with this:
The car kept having problems, so i parked it, as i moved 2 hours away. I got some of the problems fixed, and now its pretty much good to go. I just have to drive it around town and make sure its somewhat reliable (as reliable as a 20 year old volvo that sat for ~5 years can be haha), then DD it. Here is how it looks right now
(yes, that is a GTR badge haha.) i've got some plans for it.. some short term ones are to cut some more coils. I already cut 1.5 all around, I am going to do another 1.5 so I can get it sitting loww. spending a couple hundred on new wheels isn't in the budget right now, so what I'm going to do is just use the stock wheels until I either get spacers or different wheels. thats pretty much it haha. I hope to get some good ideas from some of yall's awesome cars. Thanks!!
Stephen
im planning on moving back in a month or two, so then, i'll be on it every day.. 
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