This Saturday morning, we’ll be firing up our DTM5 E34 project car and heading down to RadWood2, the show for ’80s and ’90s enthusiast machines at the Phoenix Club in Anaheim, CA. If Jalopnik’s coverage of the inaugural RadWood in the Bay Area is any indication, this show is gonna be…rad. Feel like you just can’t […]
Words and most photos by our friend Karl. I’ve been along for the ride (literally and figuratively) for most of the post-DTPC transformation work that my brother has been doing to this car. Since the last update was posted, Alex was putting in some pretty serious hours at work, which left little time for any […]
Nothing better to do this Saturday morning than gawk at other people’s cars? Yeah, us neither. That’s why we’ll be heading down to the 2nd-ever Coffee & Cars with Pelican Parts, a low-stress gathering of SoCal’s finest Euro Trash. Come join us, have a brew (of the hot caffeinated morning variety), let us gawk at […]
Editor CFlo: I sold our original Volvo 242 project car to a friend almost one year ago. Since then it has undergone quite the transformation. Below is the first installment in a series updating us on the beast, in the words of owner Alex B. Since buying the ’83 Volvo 242 DTPC I have been […]
As gearheads we constantly think about modifying cars, imagining what engine goes in the back of an engine-less 911 or dream up ways to ruin out wife’s car(s)…but sometimes we get a mod right. My own favorite modification was a simple sway bar installed in the rear of a Volkswagen Passat many years ago. It […]
by CFlo Those of you who have been following my posts on the Daily Turismo Project Car probably saw this coming, but the 242 is now happily living with a new owner and has been since October. Friend, regular DT reader, mechanical (rocket) engineer and Swedish-American certifiable Volvo nut Alex B. expressed interest in the […]
by CFlo As I’m sure many of our readers are aware, the goal and scope of a vehicle project can change drastically after you’ve already dived in. Either money runs out, time gets short, priorities are rearranged or tastes change (thankfully someone told you to reconsider those chrome 24″ wheels that were slated for your […]
by CFlo If you DT readers and Volvophiles can clear your minds of unburned hydrocarbons for a few minutes to remember all the way back to early June, you’ll recall that I had successfully upgraded the Daily Turismo Project Car’s EFI system to a later, more common version of Bosch’s LH-Jetronic. Prior to that I […]
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 […]
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 […]