Originally Posted by
squirtdad
oxymoron (still lust after the 900 turbo)
You can still have a decent one for under $5000! Outside of showroom quality survivors, they've hardly appreciated at all! It will cost you in time and effort though. Few people know how to work on them. I daily-drove a classic 900 for about a decade. I learned a lot about how to repair them in that time, and still carry two toolboxes around in my car by force of habit!
Hopefully the OP has changed that timing belt. The V70 in my family has also come due, but sadly I have about 10 other "while I'm in there" jobs. The Volvo P80 community is really good, and there are a lot of them in junkyards right now. Kind of where classic Saab 900 cars were a decade or 15 years ago.