Ok, it did stop raining for two days, but now it’s back. And it was raining the day I shot this last week. And somehow, instead of a sunny lake in summer, this scene made me think that someone is ready just in case. Leave it to a Volvo 245 driver to be prepared.
Someone asked the other day when I would get around to doing a Volvo 240 CC. I feel intimidated at the thought, so I just keep doing brick Outtakes, sort of dancing around the issue. The 240 is the official CC of Eugene, so Iguess eventually, I’ll have to buck up and really do it, but it is a bit intimidating. So here’s my way of putting it off a bit further. And no, the outboard motor wasn’t a Volvo; I think Volvo only did I/O marine engines, but I could be wrong.
And BTW, to the best of my knowledge, the record for consecutive days of measurable precipitation here is 31 days in a row.
According to the interwebs, Penta was a builder of outboard motors at the time the company was bought by Volvo in 1930, and Volvo Penta continued outboard production until 1979.
Yep, I think they made mostly small outboards, and they didn’t have a very good rep.
Curiosity finally got the better of me, and I had to Google Oregon. I think Chicago is the furthest west I have been, and Oregon is a very long way away.
If the climate is so moist, how do all these old cars survive on the street without rusting away ? Do they have to pass road-worthiness tests every year or two, as in Europe?
We have a Mediterranean climate on the west coast: rainy season and sunny season. Once the rain stops, it will be almost perfectly sunny and 99% rainless into fall, usually through October. The reason cars don’t rust is the lack of salt because we hardly ever have snow, and salt is just not used out here. The rain keeps the cars fresh!
There are so many of these Volvos in Oregon that they can be spotted as far away as Buffalo, NY.
Eugene Staff Car. And a boat.
I’m fairly sure the upright chrome grille identifies this as a 265 rather than a 245 – rather rarer, and a nice follow-up to the 164.
I’ve always had a hankering for a 265 – more luxury and more performance than a 240; but at the expense of terrible fuel economy and a PRV rather than Volvo engine.