At Paris is a lovely little town and has some cool houses, would make a nice backdrop to photo the bike parked at the curb in front of the Victorian style old build or some of the nice brick ones. My ex’s grandfather lived in a small town across the line from Indiana but Maps is not helpful and I forget the name of it. The restored train station in Winchester is a lovely building and became a community art gallery, her maternal grandmother was an artist and was instrumental in helping get the train station restored abd they held a huge celebration of the building completion while we were married and she a was still alive and the art guild had a nice art show during the celebration. We attended the show and celebration. The tracks are gone and it isn’t a fantastic structure, but it was nice, odds it would make a nice photo backdrop. Lots of restored train stations in Indiana that are not used because passenger rail is all but dead in US other than Amtrak and local touristy train businesses. The later of those often have cool little decorated train stations as they are being used frequently and tend to have the train station either be a historic look inside or they have gift shops renting space in them these days. Some opt for buildings adjacent for these little revenue enhancing shops operated or taking a portion of the til selling their tshirts and memorabilia merchandise. Lots of these small rail lines that are touristy types operate in good weather or while the tracks are cleared, there’s one that apparently is sharing the rails in Colorado with freight traffic as they are doing valentines week & weekend afterwards romantic themed $$ and $$$ depending upon the class of passenger cars. The dining car experience of course being $$$$ as the couple share a expensive meal white table cloth and candle and alcohol type experience…
One in Great Smokies is not geared for the dining car but their passenger cars are built for volume apparently. The Colorado one is more historically with the classs of cars like long ago and of course it is far more expensive an experience. Piqua, used to have Hamilton-standard aircraft prop plant. It still have that? Richmond has a Pizza King location with a double decker British bus that has seating inside and a church stained glass window built into the side of the structure with lots of Tiffany style lamp shades that are vintage and ornate and had porch swings at some of the booths years ago. The bbq sauce pizza with beef and pepperoni with lots of sauce on their thin crust pizza was delicious!. The sauce is something special smoking and tangy and sweet and the pepperoni is chopped into tiny cubes. Not a ton of cheese on it but man was it good pizza! The pizza kings in Richmond all did that pizza but the one off us40 and I70 wasn’t interesting but you could get that great pizza. The round pizza was cut in small squares. A Large or xtra large was often a to go order and we ate in the car often headed back to Columbus area where we lived. Wife grew up near Lynn, IN and Crete grain elevator was across from their house off Arba Pike road. That road is a nice MC road out of Richmond headed towards Lynn pick up Arba Pike and it goes through Crete and lots of nice farm houses and few barns. The major road towards Greenville and across Ohio towards Columbus we would take that scenic route rather than the bumpy expansion joint I70 before they rebuilt it… likely has not fared great in the last 20 years since they redid it as those expensive rebuild infrastructure jobs don’t happen and they didn’t build it to last 100 years. The original interstate system were built to do military infrastructure support being a backbone of roads capable of supporting heavy military equipment movement in case anyone invaded or another war required mobilization that wasn’t done entirely by rail and air. Rail dying for passengers wasn’t anticipated and bus and airlines and military air transport have replaced a lot of that.
Nice photos Dennis, always loved the CBX and favor the naked red or white full-faired ones. Never been a black car or bike kinda guy. Metallic Charcoal is a nice color on cars and bikes…just doesn’t have long wearing paint anymore. The old Volvo solid color, non metallic and non clear coated ain’t used that was an enamel was long wearing stuff. Don’t know what paint company they used but they put several thick coats on and it would polish up nice and could be buffed back to high luster if you kept up with waxing it it rewarded you with a nice looking car, other than slow and boxy. Drove and maintained 240 Volvos for 26 years, overbuilt well engineered for longevity if you maintained them and easy to put 250k before motor required much other than timing belt and cooling system and AC and alternator work. Steering racks and pumps would be a problem frequently but if you changed pumps and rack with remanufactured rack and got the CAM_Gear rack you could adjust rather than the ZF rack you were better off. Tropical 4 row radiator was best replacement radiator… then bolstering heavy duty shocks and struts and heavier sway bars and bigger rear bar too or ipd sway bars were way to go for flat cornering well handling corner carving road car, yes it handled curvy roads well when you put a good H or V rated rubber on the car you had a car that carried corner speed far better than many cars on the roads abd was fun to drive faster through the corners. The Police Interceptor of 2000 and later Crown Victoria had that same firm suspension flat cornering I loved…just didn’t like the fuel economy of the PI cars, after 2005 the Criwn Vic PI trim P71 if I recall correctly was a much faster car abd handled well. The last years of production Crown Vic SE models were all the cop car nice suspension with luxury civilian interiors and alloy wheels, friend has the last year Crown Vic, great road car and good fuel economy and super roomy. He has the nickname of Two Wheel Timmy as he had a Volvo 264 and the front and rear wheel (opposite corners) would be off the ground SCCA auto-crossing the car.
Tim knows how to setup and tune the suspension on cars abd then the mechanical upgrades in motor or otherwise to get better performance. VX3 camshaft from IPD gave you a smog compliant motor and even in cali if everything was in good tune and operating correctly it passed California emissions. If it failed you could always pop the original camshaft back-in in about 3 hours and then swap it back to the VX3. I liked the K grind camshaft on the dual DCOE Weber or Dual SU HS6 B20 built to the 71 142E spec but carbureted…unless you had access to a D-Jetronic FI system to drop into a 122S or P1800 or a true 142E 2 door with rally upgrades in suspension…
The fun cars of Volvos history…
Yeah Volvo drivers are typically rolling hazards and slow people and old people afraid of dying… and the politically liberals in America tend to love Volvos. Not always a liberal behind the wheel of one, but often that is the demographic that tended to own them and Saab.
Just an observation…
I drove Volvos because of the longevity and liked the engineering and design and safety philosophy that kept my family safe and at the time the fuel economy was nice, 25-28 mpg on trips when manual gearbox was in the 240 sedans and wagons about 3-4mpg lower on trips because of added weight of glass and less efficient box aero, but you could carry a lot in one if we’re moving across country or needed to carry a lot.
Dennis, contact Nils Menton, he used to be active here, I think I have his FB ID and can be found there in Honda mc owners group, he should be able to direct you on parts as he and his buddy regularly pick up CBXs and restore them and flip them…
Not sure if he is still traveling to Boston for the company after shutting down RestoCycle but he maintains the space still. Wish he were still distributing & selling the IKons I need a set for my cb550 but don’t have that kinda money.
