I have five Volvo project cars at the moment, including a fully restored 1983 240 in baby/sky blue. Your enthusiasm for saving this neglected vehicle deserves widespread recognition!

Respect for saving this thing. If more people were like you, we'd be up to our eyeballs in classic cars

I'd probably keep it as a lawn ornament. 😂 Y'all are brave.

Wow. It reminds me of Pete C’s Project Bramble, though that had the excuse of being left in a field for years & had that whole arboretum thing going on….

I am enjoying the rustberg! Nothing better than working on cars with mates 👍🏻

Marc is a personal friend of mine, in my opinion it looks like there's been a fire in that head with how black it is 😂. Seriously though good luck with the rebuild!

Take my hat off to you for saving this one

It fills me with dread to think what lies beneath the bodywork of my '77 Jubilee. It lives outside and working in the rain is a pita.

It winds me up that the previous owners trusted and relied on someone who wasn't playing the game correctly. I did the same for years, trusted my local mechanic to service and fix my previous car... they did loads of work to solve a misfire, and ran it dry of oil in the process. Now I'm back to doing it myself, and really enjoying it to be honest, but I've had a poor experience with mechanics

My old Astra van ( that ive mentioned to you before) was in a similar state, working mainly outside over the last 5 years, it has slowly come back, now totally solid and is slowly being prepped for a diy spray job hopefully later in the year. There will be times when all you feel like you are doing is cutting bits out, finding yet more hidden rot, then letting new metal in, but eventually it'll be rock solid.

Glad that it's going to live on. How did it get an MOT? Hope you can find a scrap/ accident damaged 244 in better condition and cut out the sections needed. Look forward to amazon project. At least the engine in the 244 isn't scrap.

Well at least it's not being scrapped. Can't wait to see you do the wiring Marc

Reminds me of a Mk1 Escort I had which had so much sludge in the rockerbox you could not properly make out the shape of the rockers!

I have a very similar 1978 244DL also in Cypress Green. Love the colour. Only differences, mine is K-Jet and my wipers park left (Australian Design Rules). Good luck with the restoration, they are simple cars and parts are cheap. Welding will make for some great video content.

I had a Volvo 244 GLI BACK IN THE 80s . A true autobahn eater 😁 130 mph plus all the time with ease

Seen a lot worse get repaired great to see it getting work deserves another chance .

Everywhere you look there is problems .. absolutely everything looks a bodge on it from top to bottom . There was a good bit of piston slap in it as well

I'd have run a mile from the car, as although I love 240s from the 1970s, I can't weld. My 1990 740 (B200F) has had piston slap since I've owned it, but it's not got any worse in nearly 21 years :)

2:23 no as its still holding together just get someone who s good on metalwork and welding they be able to cut out the rotten area and put new metal in to make strong and fixed right be good as new just alot work to do to get back to safe conidication

Good Sunday car. Its holy.

Old Volvo’s can always be repaired. But amazing that passed an MOT not long ago, who on earth serviced it? I’m sure the previous owner paid money in good faith.

I know that you said that finance wasn't an issue with this restoration, but it looks as though it's going to cost a fortune. Personally, I would treat this as a donor car so that any usable parts could help keep better examples on the road. Credit to you both if you're determined to fix it, but I would suggest that you draw up a realistic 'budget' of what it's likely to cost in both cash and time, bearing in mind that any resources you plough into this project means less than you can use on others - including maintenance of daily drivers. Good luck and best wishes.

Nah! I wouldnt have scrapped it, id just get on and rebuild it

That's a pretty horrible car Marc, TBH. On the subject of the MOT, I know how that can come about. I had a MK3 Golf GTi that I restored, it was my wife's daily drive. I had a business with many vehicles and used a garage local to the business for all the MOT's, I had no time then to work on cars at all, so trusted everything to others. The owner and tester was not a young man, like me, in his 60's back then, and that Golf passed it's test every year, no problems. Bear in mind it was my wife's car, I would want everything to be as safe as possible. I sold my share in the business in 2012, so for the next MOT took the car to a good guy I knew whose garage was much nearer to where I live. I got a call about midday from the new tester, saying I needed to call in and see him. I couldn't believe how bad that Golf was. 2 brake pipes had completely crumbled in his hands, the sills were rotten to bits. I was cutting welding and restoring that car for the next year. Sometimes MOT testers become set in their ways and complacent. If you watch Yorkshire Car Restoration, they prove anything can be repaired, and technically, every car they have ever featured on their channel should have been scrapped, so the Volvo is do-able, just break it down to one small job at a time, but you will achieve very little working on it outdoors. Good luck with the car and the channel. PS, I see you have hooked up with one of the best, as in Lewis Whiteland.

Restore the old girl back to her former glory and use her

Everything is fixable if you have the cash,, but saying this, how many of these are on the road today It could be a donor car, but I'll fix it

Think it’s been a Volvo to long if it was me think I would scrap it

Scrap it lads ...

Scrap it !! just to much work, buy another mini 👍

It's a testament to Volvos that this was a running, driving car.