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 […]
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, […]
The Volvo 700 platform was launched in 1985 as a replacement for the aging 200 series but continued the boxy styling by Jan Wilsgaard. The older 200 outlived the 700 by a few years before everything was tossed aside for the front drive 850 and the era of rear-drive (aka fun-drive) Volvos faded into history. […]
The Volvo wagon V8 swap might not have been invented by the legendary Paul Newman, but he certainly put it on the map with the mythical story of the of puffer fed cars as told by Dave Letterman. The Letterman V8lvo was featured in Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, and the Paul Newman Volvo was […]
I think it’s fairly safe to say that most grandmothers drive cars that are slow and sensible. Camrys, CR-Vs, maybe the occasional Delta 88 Brougham. One of my grandmothers drove a circa 1980 beige Chevrolet Malibu 4-door sedan, and the other a 1976 Dodge Colt in metallic green with a vinyl top. Both were basic […]
The Volvo 700 was launched in 1985 as a planned replacement for the aging 200 series, but the older 200 surprisingly outlived the 700 by a few years before everything was tossed aside for the front drive 850 and the era of rear-drive (aka fun-drive) Volvos faded into history. Volvo enthusiasts call this model the […]