The staff of the Daily Turismo is heading to the Big SoCal Euro event at Qualcomm Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego and we’ll have a big roll of stickers to give out. These stickers can be used to bandage self inflicted gunshot wounds, practice sticky origami, hold bumpers on Fords, display your unending love […]
Time for a double-242 Thorsday, this one being an extremely minty fresh 1983 model. It happens to be a twin to our Daily Turismo Project Car, in specification, model year, and options. Compared to the 1982 blue car just featured this one seems to be mostly original or refreshed, but not restored. 152k miles means […]
by CFlo After getting our project 242’s electrical wiring issues sorted out, my easily distracted attention necessarily turned towards fine tuning, with the goal of making the engine run clean enough to pass the draconian emissions testing enforced by our great state of Californistan. In an effort to keep costs down making repairs while simultaneously […]
A minty clean survivor Volvo station wagon is kind of like a minty clean survivor Toyota pickup…they are so rare in unabused form that it’s almost shocking to see one looking good-as-new in 2013. But the same conundrum keeps coming up with survivor “utility” vehicles like these: what do you do with one? If it’s […]
by CFlo When we last left the saga of the DTPC, our 1983 Volvo 242 DL, we had announced we were entering ipd’s $25000 Build Off for Volvo project cars. Lucky for ipd, clear heads prevailed and we didn’t win a spot although we were amongst the top 5 finalists in the RWD category, of […]
Welcome to another edition of TTIT: Thank Thor its Thursday…known here at the Daily Turismo as Thorsday. Today’s Thorsday feature is a 1975 Volvo 242 DL covered in an electric shade of orange and is for sale in SF Bay Area, CA for $6100 via craigslist. The asking price is a bit optimistic but the […]