The Volkswagen Type 2 (colloquially known as the VW Bus or VW Van) was sold in the USA from 1967-1979 (it is still manufactured and sold in limited quantities in Brazil!) and was available as a Transporter, Kombi or Microbus – but never as a Baja Safari style ride. Some enterprising individual addressed that issue…and […]
We mentioned a few days back that the 67 Volvo 122 Amazon coupe was purchased by Daily Turismo reader Clark, but today we received a short novel from Clark about his return trip home with his new friend. The following are his words and photos about his return trip home with “Helga” : Helga leaving […]
Thorsday posts typically contain some original-condition slow-mobiles-to-nowhere that look great, have lots of peppy Norse attitude and are found at rock bottom prices. Today we are going to treat that tradition like a politician treats written law and hope the ethics committee doesn’t come after us. This 1978 Volvo 262C “Bertone” protouring-custom-race-pro-chop-top-ultimate-street-car-rare recently failed to meet its […]
The Ford Crown Victoria is based on Ford’s Panther platform – the big ‘body-on-frame’ brother to the Fox platform. The Crown Vic was built from 1979 to 2011 – the second generation from 1998-2011, but only for fleet sales after 2007. The crown jewel of the Vics is the P-71 police interceptor package and only […]
The boffins in the Daily Turismo Research Department tell us that today’s featured Thorsday “California Special” car was, in fact, somewhat special, and was indeed only available in California when sold new. Where else would buyers want an interior that looks like an acid trip woven from petrified orange dreamsicles made by a disgruntled Navajo […]
In case our readers haven’t noticed, we have been on a bit of a ’50s Americana kick here at DT recently. Wednesday (actually “Wodensday” aka Odin’s Day…more Norse mythology…help us…) is no different! Time for another clean Ford from the Eisenhower era – after he had hung up his General’s stars and started fighting the […]
The E3 BMW was the sedan equivalent of the stunning BMW E9 coupe. If offered the same BMW handling, torquey inline 6s and great build quality, but with a back seat that can fit a human being. Unfortunately the flowing coupe lines are lost and the car looks quite a bit like an Alfa Romeo […]
As we have mentioned before, DT is a big fan of ‘Fox body’ Fords, but perhaps you don’t want to join the flat-brim tatoo’d bros who cruise downtown Riverside in 5.0 ‘stangs. The Fox platform was a unibody chassis and set of common components used from 1978 to 2004 in various sedans, coupes, wagons & […]
We are happy to report that the 1800ES wagon we featured on Volvo Thorsday #1 has arrived at the home of DT reader and new owner, doctordel. He is already enjoying the car and has his eye on a few options for more power. We wish him the best with his new pride & joy! […]
We see errors in car ads from time to time, lots of V6 BMWs, ‘original owner’ cars that were just purchased 2 months ago, and our favorite: Cameros. But this one is a doozy (not literally a Duesenberg – just a big gaffe). Listed as a 1946 Mercury Zephyr, it’s actually a V-12 Lincoln Sedan, […]