Your Mother’s Brick
Don’t know much about “Your Mother” except for this 1992 photo of the band on a green, 1976 Volvo.
Bonus: For more amazing band photos, visit Your Band Sucks.
The Original Owner of John Stewart’s Brick
Turns out John Stewart’s brick was a 1979 240 DL with over 300K. See more in the update.
John Stewart’s $10 Million Volvo POS
On the Daily Show last night John Stewart talked the Supreme Court and how the banks have been screwing us. To demonstrate, he forms a corporation out of himself and puts an asset up for collateral for $1,000,000. The asset? A “1984 Volvo station wagon with a Pioneer tape deck.” Then, through the magic of creative corporate accounting practices, he winds up with this gorgeous $10,000,000 flying brick. Sweet!
Forward to 6:00 for the funny:
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UPDATE: The owner of the original photo has been found! Nayak Polissar looks to be the original owner of “Greenie”, a 1979 DL with over 300k on the odometer.
From the Nayak posts to NWAutos in Seattle:
“I LOVE MY CAR BECAUSE … I have so many fond memories associated with it, and because it has served me so reliably for 30 years and over 300,000 miles. When it was very new, I chauffeured a great world leader around Seattle for several days. It has been on hundreds of fun outings all over the West. We have hauled all kinds of stuff and so many people. It starts in an instant and it has rarely needed repairs. It’s alive!”
After seeing it on The Daily Show, he states:
“Greenie has now served amusement and joy to millions of Stewart’s fans and viewers — in addition to the 300,000-plus miles of service to our family and community. I was happy that Stewart showed Greenie flying toward ‘auto heaven.’ But that won’t happen before many more miles with our family.” Yeah!
CarCast Talks Olde Volvo
Ron Livingston will live forever in my heart as Peter Gibbons from the movie “Office Space“. Turns out, his first car was a brick. Specifically a Volvo 122. That didn’t run.
He and Adam Carolla talk Volvos and Chevettes on this post/podcast from CarCast.
Slow Burn
If you thought the interior of your brick stinks, imagine sitting in this 745 after a minute long burnout. * cough cough *
Brick-a-Brack Other People's Bricks
If ipd won’t publish, then I will
I’m disappointed that I didn’t get chosen as a runner up for the ipd RWD photo contest. I’m sure they got plenty of submissions. I’ll try not to be bitter by saying that there’s some cool photos in there. I think next year I need to go for the pensive, looking off into the sunset style that won last years contest.
As for another contest I didn’t quite get accepted for, above is a partial header graphic I created for Volvolution community. I put together a mock evolution of the fronts of Swedish wagons. Enjoy.
Racing V8 Brick Flips at 24 Hours of LeMons
Jalopnik has been documenting 24 Hours of LeMons for some years now and participated with a Ford 302 V8 powered Volvo 244 last year. The car has gone through a number of different paint jobs over the past couple of years. First was black and blue, then came white with black text. Lately it’s been a “Mustard Yellow Volvo Doing 45 in the Fast Lane” and this summer it won first place. Unfortunately this week there have been a few minor disasters, including the t-boning of a TR8 and the spectacular rollover while passing a Plymouth Fury. See video below.
According to reports, the roof didn’t even crush down to the rollcage. We wish V8olvo a rapid recovery and look forward to more races!
Ye Olde Volvo Net
I found an interesting anti-sway bar FAQ, posted on swedishbricks.com in 1992. A writer asks about upgrading the sway bars on her husband’s new 245:
So, we bought the ’92 240 5 spd wagon. My husband, to whom I regularly deliver hardcopy of Volvo-net wisdom, wants to know about the best width swaybars for improving cornering. He feels it is ironic that my ’76 240 wagon seems to do better without sway bars(?), and that the new car could use an upgrade. I have the general list from Volvo-net Who’s who, but would appreciate elaboration.
The answer she gets is the same as anyone would get on the Brick Board 18 years later:
For a recent car, such as your new 245, I would suggest the following “improvements” :
Tires : replace stock 185R14 Michelin with 205/70HR14 tires (see tire chart) less important on a new car, very important after 40k miles
Dampers : replace stock shocks with iPD “specially-valved” Bilsteins only then
Sway-Bars : replace stock sway bars with iPD sway bars
Since this was posted online in 1992, all of the email addresses are colleges, including the new 245 owner at harvard.edu.