Who's The Sucker Now?

I've been visiting the Volvo 1800 Picture Gallery website for months now to admire photos that other proud owners of Volvo 1800s have submitted of their cars. This site has a huge database of Volvo 1800 photos by model year from all over the world, and the cars are all well maintained, modified, or fully restored - except for this one train wreck found in the 1971 gallery (pictured below).

Each time I come across this car, I'd laugh and wonder "Who's the sucker who bought this junk?" Why would anyone post photos of a wreck like that? Everyone else proudly displays their well-kept or restored 1800, but this one specimen is left to rot in a pile of leaf litter so large that Sasquatch made a nest there - who own's this masterpiece? Well ... I think you know where I'm going with this. Yup! Turns out, yours truly is the sucker! It was quite a sobering night when I was looking at the photos for the 20th time and decided to zoom-in on the registration plates.

Karma - that's what I get for laughing at others! It's sad to see my beauty in such a degraded state. The previous owners must have spent a fortune to get it into the condition it was in before I took over. Click here to see more photos of the Volvo before I bought it.