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Further the artilce states things patently incorrect..
It says (god where to people dream this stuff up?)
Thats bollocks or bulldust, skitprat.. EVERYTHING must be in the homologation papers--that's the whole idea..
Here in the 1983 version is the Form:
details
and the obligatory photo:
EVERY combination of discs and calipers had to be noted in the Homologation forms diameters, thicknesses, weights..
(I cannot post any link to those because an outrageously immoderate moderator has banned me several times for even linking to any brake specs and threatened angrily that he will "convince all the other mods to Lifetime ban me if I ever say anything" about any Volvo brakes set ups....so go thru the pages of stuff yourselves..EVERYTHING--and note you could not go carve up a hunk of aluminum and make a brake bell/hat out of aluminum yourself, the parts had to have etched or stamped a real Part Number...so naturally they cost 5-8 times or more what you could make..This is ONE reason everybody hated Group A back in the day..
Now...look at those nice Getrag ratios..THOSE would be nice in a hot road car..
And note that ALL the top contenders:Volvo, BMW, Rover V8 and the car that killed them all Ford Sierra, all used those same gears...
THAT is more interesting than fapping over long gone stock cars.
OK, Question regardless of number, date and options... As per Dave B's post, did Volvo remove them all or actually deliver at least one 240 vehicle with at least one option either installed or as installable accessory ( eg in the trunk). I ask because his post ruled that out, suggests Volvo resold the add ons. Yes, no or folk lore ?
Missed this.What I don't understand is why they would have american version cars when they were never raced here in the states and all of the Group A Volvos (except 1 private entry) had the RoW front end.
I'd be interested in running/helping with a registry for the flatnose cars.
Interesting. Now I want to look at more cars and see if they didn't have the sticker either.
The grand daddy of the new polestar that's for sure.
You guys completely missed the most egregious statement in this thread:
No self-respecting 240 Turbo would claim the Polestar as progeny. The Polestar nonsense only dreams of being this cool.
Nobody bothered to comment, don't see a connection
Have you seen the price of a lotus cortina or mark1. escort? Over here, only a shelby or Aussie built GTO (falcon equivalent) are more sought after. Got any over there?
Before the skyline, nothing could get close to the 240... 635csi, TWR v12, mustang, Holden/chev 5.0, etc
It was mentioned twice.
Once by OP and once in the email I posted.
First limited run of hotrods was the '83.
Next was the T5R special order.
Now the Polestar.
Volvo hasn't done many performance editions. I think there was a hotrod P something.
Like a P2000 maybe.
The right Cotina: insane
But with Escorts, its all in the build spec..Either MI or MkII if done to proper FIA Appendix K spec is an $100,000+ car --'Merkanski dollars.
Beyond insane..
And crazier still is people still pound them so hard..
You see Haydon Paddon's 1st OVERALL in a BDA (1600) MkII at last years NZRC round down in Otago?
See there's a tie in to Volvos! I say the 240 is just a larger, wider MkII Escort in the rough...
Build it more or less the same and it will go more or less the same: GOOD power to weigh, EASY servicabily, Great balance and as Paddon showed, good enough to beat $300,000 turbo AWD cars on the loose...
But the difference is we can afford to do a 240...and we can afford to crash one too.
Paddon seems like pretty good driver eh... I need to see that footage. Yes a big ford escort! There was a guy down here by the name of Paul Adams in the 70s. Used to love watching him throw his rs2000 around handicap races. He'd have 10 laps to over take the slower cars, ...sideways
It was mentioned twice.
Once by OP and once in the email I posted.
First limited run of hotrods was the '83.
Next was the T5R special order.
Now the Polestar.
Volvo hasn't done many performance editions. I think there was a hotrod P something.
Like a P2000 maybe.
They cheated by supposedly reporting a works evolution model that never existed.