From Oct. 24, 2013: The Volvo Amazon (called the 120 series outside of Sweden) was the more practical, more upright but still sexy older sibling of the P1800 sporty car, to which it donated its engine, transmission, and suspension options. Today the values of the 1800 series coupes and 1800ES shooting brakes have started to tick […]
The SR20DET was an SR series, 2.0 liter, dual-overhead cam, electronic fuel injected and turbocharged engine from Nissan that was used in the Pulsar, Silvia, Bluebird, 180SX, Sunny, etc. The SR20DET was never officially imported for the US market, but many engines have come in grey market, used or built from scratch in all sorts […]
To continue the running theme we inadvertently started earlier, might we suggest a gander at another solid vintage car with potential that has been questionably dolled up to look like a race car, but actually has no performance credentials whatsoever. We’re not saying that the Volvo Amazon was never competitive, just that this particular 1966 […]
Welcome to a new edit of Daily Turismo’s favorite weekly obsession about Scandinavian rolling junk, Thorsday! Today we are going to start off on the right foot with a bargain priced coupe from the guys in Torslandaverken. This 1966 Volvo Amazon 122S custom is for sale in Toledo, OH, currently bidding on ebay for $5,500 with a buy-it-now […]
Our West Coast and dry climate readers probably get spoiled seeing clean, intact vintage cars running around on a day to day basis, and probably don’t have much trouble finding a vintage ride of their own when they start looking (unless they are looking for a Dymaxion car or a Tucker, that is). But for […]
We recently published the outline of our special feature on How to Buy a Used Car – but today we found a car that is being sold by someone who could write the book on How to Sell a Used Car. This 1968 Volvo 122S is for sale on autotraderclassics.com for $3,500 and is located behind […]
We had such a great success with a Volvo 122S named Helga, that we decided we would post the next good example we could find…it was that or some kind of hideous bat-mobile based on a Fiat spider. It (the Volvo, not the BiatMobile) came sooner than we expected in the form of a tip […]