Somewhere between Stockholm and Santa Cruz, a Volvo 740 wagon lost its roof and found its calling. What started life as a sensible Swedish longroof has been reborn as an El Camino-style beach cruiser, complete with custom bed conversion, stereo that bumps, and a paint job straight out of a Scandinavian pride parade—yes, that’s the […]
The Volvo 700 series was a family of executive cars built by Volvo from 1982 through 1992 and sold around the world to yuppies and families. The available engines from the factory included a variety of B-series 4-cylinder gasoline engines and a few inline-6 diesels. Obviously the fastest were the turbocharged and intercooled B23 from […]
This next car comes as a tip from TeleArrow who writes: Here’s a properly boxy Volvo for your Thorsday. I don’t know why I like the look of these things so much, maybe it’s because it’s what you would draw if you were 7 and asked to draw a wagon. This Turbo looks to be […]
Another day, another V8 powered Volvo wagon offered for sale, but this one has a manual gearbox and some sweet gold wheels and a bunch of other upgrades. The asking price is a smidge more than I’d like to pay for something as silly as a V8 Volvo, but this one is gonna be as […]
The OG Volvo 740 Turbo wagon combines a certain boxy-but-good styling with proper rear-drive driving dynamics and boooooooooooooost from a small exhaust driven puffer. The entire package is offered for a reasonable price and I can’t imagine why people flock in droves to drive late model Camrys when these are so cheap. Oh..yeah…it’s gonna break […]
The Volvo 740 (aka 745) wagon was a fine piece of engineering from safety focused guys at Volvo, but even in turbocharged trim it won’t open any eyes with acceleration…so…an entire boutique industry has been born to fix it with injection of American V8 power — even Paul Newman shoved a V8 into his Volvo […]
This next car comes as a seller submission from Mike W who writes: This is a car that I originally found in Richmond VA two years ago through DT. It needed a whole lotta love to get it back to where it needed to be, but there was a great foundation to work with. It had me at […]
DT E-i-C Vince: This next feature is written by John Harbinson, who you may recognize as the teenage car collector from the BringATrailer.com People’s Choice Best Feature of 2014 that he won for buying an old rusting pile of Jensen parts. John raised his hand when we offered folks the chance to write for Daily […]
Many of the V8 powered Volvo wagons you find are low budget form follows function burnout machines that have Humboldt State University stickers patching up rust holes, but this next one is really nice looking…well…nice looking for a boxy Swedish wagon. Find this 1990ish Volvo 740 Wagon with LT1 V8 and 6 speed manual gearbox […]
Folks outside a few select locations don’t have the luxury of driving a vintage convertible 12 months out of the year and sometimes even people who live near a tropical beach have to drive 42 miles in bumper-to-bumper traffic. What this means is that the normal requirement for fun driving gets thrown out the window, […]