Thanks for all the welcomes, I'm in Rochester, NY and eagerly awaiting getting back to Albany where I lived for 12 years while going to SUNY there. I'll be finishing my degree in May and I'm applying to SUNY Buffalo and Colgate for a PhD in classical archaeology but with the wife still in school here we'll be stuck in Rochester 5 more years.
Performance volvos are an oddity though not uncommon, I got into cars from working on my dad's 67 Mustang GT and all I could afford that was reliable was a volvo 240. One thing led to another and the fun went from there.