Remember that Yoshifab V8 Volvo wagon that sold on ebay for something reasonable and then kept showing back up being sold by flipper(s) looking for a quick profit? Yeah. Beat the flippers to this next beasty and pick it up for a reasonable asking price before it ends up on some auction site that is […]
A good number of car enthusiasts would consider a brown turbo Volvo 5 speed wagon to be a dream daily driver. The 940’s were the last of the durable rear wheel drive Volvos. Their 162 hp B230FT red block four cylinder engines respond like a duck to water to upping up the boost pressure. […]
Paul Newman’s Volvo 960 V8 Wagon pops up for sale every few years at some astronomical asking price with the likes of Wayne Carini waxing nostalgic about it…but if you want a Converse Engineering V8 swapped Volvo, you don’t need to be a trust fund kid, you just need patience and a good eye for […]
By John Harbinson — Volvo made THE perfect sleeper platforms with both the 7 and 9 series cars, the wagons in particular. With a garage, some tools, and a spare v8 laying around, they could be absurd pavement pounders. Paul Newman, while probably not the first to look at a Volvo station wagon, and think […]
LS1 T56 — with those six little letters, any car becomes interesting. Try it. LS1 T56 Aveo. LS1 T56 Grand Caravan. Yup. Anything goes from a zero to hero when you shove an all-alloy small block Chevy V8 and 6-spd manual gearbox ahead of the driving wheels. Find this 1991 Volvo 945 Wagon LS1 T56 […]
The first car to leave a factory (not really a factory, more like a workman’s shed…) bearing the Volvo name was the ÖV4 — the name was an abbreviation for “Öppen Vagn 4 cylindrar” (open carriage, four cylinder). The ÖV4, launched in 1927, used a classic longitudinal 4-cylinder engined mounted to a wooden chassis and […]