The Pine Needle Car - Ånyo's Beginning
The car has a strange origin story. My previous 240 had a blown motor and a date with the crusher. I pulled everything valuable off it - including a 3-inch turbo back exhaust system I'd bought as part of a Turbobricks group buy (SAM in Sweden). My coworker's friend wanted the exhaust, so I sold it to him. A few years later, the same coworker mentioned his friend was looking to sell his 240. So I bought my original exhaust back with an entire car attached to it. My buddy drove me to go pick it up and we found it parked underneath a pine tree, covered in needles.
It had been sitting awhile.
The previous owner had rattlecanned it flat black. The doorjambs were the only indication that it had also started its life as a black car.
It was my daily driver for about three years until I bought a newer car. The idea was to make the 240 my project car. I had big plans for it, but life happened.
For the last six years, it has been sitting on the side of my house under another thick layer of pine needles. Déjà vu.
Why now?
My first job after graduation was as a design engineer at a company that makes sawmill equipment. After a couple years, I moved on to a tech company where most of my days are spent running thermal simulations and testing network cards in a benchtop windtunnel. I like the job, but I've really missed designing.
My dad was a Volvo mechanic for over thirty years. The one year anniversary of his death was approaching and I was thinking about him a lot. Memories of working on my car with my dad, coupled with an urge to make something, brought me out to the side of my house staring at this old, neglected car.
It had sat long enough. I decided that I was going to use it as an outlet to scratch my design itch and also as a way to keep my dad around.
I bought a Bambu Lab H2S and got to modeling. I started Ånyo four weeks later.
See the full parts catalog, install guides, and more of the build at https://www.anyoagain.com