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[brownslanejag]

This is the story of my 1995 960 project. My dad bought the car new. And he passed away in Dec 2008. Well, his wife drove the car until November 2010. When she calls me and tells me if I want my Dad's car I have to get up to Los Angeles in a week and tow it out of her driveway. It seems that she drove it that whole time and didnt do anything to it. Didnt wash it, didnt change or check the oil. And didnt even check the coolant. She said that the car just stopped running. So it was junk to her. But to me it was the last car that my dad ever bought. So, I went up to L.A. from my place in San Diego and towed it home.Where it sat until February 2011. I then took it to the Volvo shop to get checked out. I have to say that I got lucky. The engine was ok. BUT I had to have some transmission work done. New coolant. There was NONE! And of course an oil change. They also replaced the front end bushings and a bunch of other stuff. And it became my daily driver. Here are some pics just after i started cleaning it up.

[tomcat]

Very Nice Mark, where's the rest of the write up?, get off yer arse and get it posted...Tsk...I don't know....etc..

[okoye]

what a beauty! thats a pretty car you've got there. your dad seemed to have liked it because its still mint even though his wife didnt treat it too well.

id love to see what you do to this thing!

[brownslanejag]

Well, Here is the rest of the story. I drove my car. And fell in total love with it. I replaced the radiator, and some other stuff. I made plans to fix it up. I started to make Volvo friends and found some really cool stuff for it. And came up with some cool ideas for it. Then one day about a month ago I went out to my parking lot to go to work and found this....

[Aequitas_Veritas]

Looks like its time for an 850R bumper swap or S70R front end haha.

[okoye]

i definitely agree on a v70r front end swap

[brownslanejag]

Well everyone, Thats kind of what I did. Here is what stage the car went thru next.

[okoye]

so let me guess full frontal swap? and bumper swap in the rear?

[brownslanejag]

Here my car is as it sits now. It now has a custom hand made grill and custom hand made front bumper. Both were made by fellow VS member Tomcat over in the U.K. It has a nice R spoiler that I got from Tomcat as well. As well as clear corners and side markers . All from Tomcat.

[Smithwicks]

Awesome!

By the way which Volvo shop did you take your car to? (referring to original post)

[brownslanejag]

Smithwicks, on 07 September 2011 - 01:56 AM, said:

Awesome!

By the way which Volvo shop did you take your car to? (referring to original post)

I always use Auto Tech Volvo in EL Cajon. They have over 28 years in business. They are the most amazing shop ever. If you want the number let me know.

[okoye]

ever thought about painting the side skirts or putting s70 skirts on?

[brownslanejag]

Well here are some more current pics!

[Fake-R]

Needs more aero to match that front bumper. Subtle side skirts and a rear lip would be killer!

[phunktified]

looks good .. im thinkin maybe black out those door pillars, paint the sideskirts and throw some ballin s80 wheels on there or somethin

960s are the shit .. I loved mine anyway... tomcat did some nice work on that front bumpah

[Aequitas_Veritas]

Im digging it, cant wait to see it in person!

[brownslanejag]

phunktified, on 29 September 2011 - 04:01 AM, said:

looks good .. im thinkin maybe black out those door pillars, paint the sideskirts and throw some ballin s80 wheels on there or somethin

960s are the stuff .. I loved mine anyway... tomcat did some nice work on that front bumpah

I agree with all of that! And yes, Tomcat did an AWESOME job on both the bumper and grill!

Aequitas_Veritas, on 29 September 2011 - 04:05 AM, said:

Im digging it, cant wait to see it in person!

Thanks! I will be hosting a meet sometime this month. I hope that you can come down!

Fake-R, on 29 September 2011 - 04:00 AM, said:

Needs more aero to match that front bumper. Subtle side skirts and a rear lip would be killer!

Do you have some pics of what those items look like that I can see?

[Fake-R]

Kinda like this:

[Q-Ship]

hey that looks great! Nice resuscitation.
I think the sideskirts look is a trick of the eye: painted black in the bright lights, it looks like they're missing until you spy the letters.
Coming along nicely