Three Run Jimmy Jack

My car is a 1983 Volvo 244. In Volvo's numbering scheme the first digit is the model, the 2nd digit is the number of cylinders and the 3rd digit is the number of doors. The 242 is a two-door, the 244 is a 4-door and the 245 is a wagon. The fifth door is in the way back. About 1985 Volvo dropped the 3rd digit and just called all their 200 series models with 4-cylinder engines the "240". This is about the same time they stopped making the two-doors.

I like to work on cars, and have a plan in life, that we'll only buy cars we can afford with cash. Gadgets break, and every car I have had with electric windows has had trouble with the electric windows, so I have found that the easiest old cars to own are cars without gadgets. My volvo has crank windows, no A/C, no sunroof, no seatwarmers. I like it like that. There is no safer car with less gadgets that I can buy with cash. My goal is to get my whole family eventually driving Volvos.

My family has had trouble with car accidents. If you go look at crashtest.com, they rate every car made in the last 25 years for safety. Volvo is the only car that is safe all models all years. There was an article online that said from 1990 to 1995 no one in America died while driving a Volvo 240. Sounds like my kind of car.

My theory is that the meaning of life can be summed up in one phrase, "don't make the same mistake twice." Or if you are a fan of the Who, "Won't get Fooled Again." I don't believe that I will live forever, but one goal is that a car accident is not going to do me in.