Best of luck selling your 244 - it's nearly identical to mine, save for mileage, rust (mine only has a few surface patches that I'm cleaning up over this summer, since the previous owner had the underside oiled yearly) and front-end damage (though mine was run into something and repaired by someone before I had 'er). Mine is my first car, too, and hopefully yours will provide that same service to a new generation and get him (or her) into Volvos as well.