Hey, remember those wacky 80's? Crazy styles, crazy new genre of music called "RAP" Hammer's pants, New Coke and those gems of the theatre. -With large(er than) life life-lessons coming from movies like Footloose, St. Elmo's Fire and of course... THE SAINT. -Actually not so sure of the life lessons from The Saint, as the line reads something about never giving anyone your name, ID, etc... But what the heck, it was the 80's remember?...
Okay, I'll admit, I fell under that movie's spell -and thought it was pretty cool (of course, we're talking about memory here, like you remember how cool it was to go to middle school... like
20 years later.)Anyway, I couldn't resist (-should have) the urge to purchase one of these:
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Volvo c-70. TURBO. Yup, that's right ladies. TURRRRBO.
And wearing gleaming Ferrari Red paint.
And that's pretty much about the only good thing you could say about it: "Hey, nice paint". Much like Chitty-Chitty, it didn't do any of the fancy tricks like in the movie. And the Turbo was more like a truck turbo... slow and steady wins the race... or so it goes in Sweden.
As a matter of fact, even with the cool custom grille and EU tag, it handled and drove... -like a Volvo.
Had it for a couple of years, then sold it to a guy from Kansas. He flew in to buy and had no clue about the new "coolness movie star factor" he was about to uptick himself into.He just came to buy a Volvo.
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