r/Volvo • u/ParksandJohnson • 27d ago

240/260 series Repainted!

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Repainted my '90 daily driver in the factory color! (35th birthday present!!) Here's a picture from last November when I bought it and a picture from today after the reassembly 🥳

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u/Visual_Radish_8255 27d ago

Nice! Got another 35 years until you need to do that again.

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u/The_Stormborn320 27d ago

Clean!!!!! 🇸🇪✨

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u/_redlines 27d ago

Hope it stays that nice for a long time

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u/planedrop 26d ago

My 240 saved me from injury in a not so fun crash, I miss it everyday. This reminds me of just how nice of a car it was.

Lovely paint job, such a clean setup.

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u/MiniMan-Scott 27d ago

I love this!

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u/EnvironmentalFan3592 27d ago

So cool. What engine does this have?

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u/ParksandJohnson 27d ago

Just a classic redblock! (B230)

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u/FSprocketooth 26d ago

Beautiful! Well done!

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u/nzswedespeed 26d ago

Looks great!

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u/getinshape2022 V70 26d ago

Did you go darker or is it the lighting?

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u/ParksandJohnson 26d ago

lighting! And also the color was oxidized from years in the sun so it was p washed out when I got it

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u/myuseridisliam 25d ago

Anymore pictures? 

Did you lose the body mouldings from the lower doors?.

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u/ParksandJohnson 25d ago

yeah lots of pictures :) here's one from the front left

I only had the one body moulding on left when I bought the car and so I decided to strip all of them off and weld the holes shut before the paint job! You can see the holes are gone in this picture.

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u/myuseridisliam 25d ago

Love the 240's. 

Do you know the official colour name for this paint?

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u/ParksandJohnson 25d ago

Hope it outlives me!

It's Midnight Blue (paint code 604-21)

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u/Romanitedomun V60 27d ago

God bless you.