I've bought both of my cars from similar situations. The 83 was from a retired lawyer in Colorado who simply never drove it, just over 3,000 miles when I got it. But he was a no expenses spared guy. Had a local volvo shop replace all fuel parts, injectors. Just some minor going over & updating and the car is fine. More to come for this car later down the road. Still lots of original stuff to change over. My 81 was from an owner so old, he was dead. I bought it off his wife, she was too old to even sell it. Her neighbor who ran a Honda dealership got it out to show me and send me information on it. Again he never drove it, or did almost ANY work to it. Short of the fuel distributor I've replaced the entire fuel system, cooling system. Brake lines, and all electrical updates. No recalls were on the car, had to do them myself. Just part of the fun of learning how the car works. Now when something starts acting up, it isn't so bad. Just as long as I can figure it out. Almost ANY 20+ year old car will require some tweaking adjustment here & there. But I can't speak for the refurbished cars. Both cars aside from needing minor tweaks to awake from their 20 year sleep are in near perfect shape. So I kinda like buying the old man garage cars. Just you have some work to do to them. And look it over before you buy of course. Good Luck, Joe O'Brien 2524 & 16634 To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/