Absolutely awesome and fun to drive Volvo with a v8 swap. About $15,000 was spent on parts and supplies to build this car so if you were thinking of building one then this will save you a lot of time and money!
The car is fast, fun, and the IPD suspension provides exciting and balanced handling.
Always a great conversation starter!
This one has all the right parts and it is just waiting for you to ad your personal touch to make it yours!
The engine, trans, and computer combo were purchased from Tripplett Salvage in Akron with only 30,000 miles (approximately just 40,000 miles now).
The car was built between 1997-2000 from an almost enitirely rust free car (it was rust proofed from new). Garage kept and driven very little since built (family and minivans came into the picture).
It has been active and driven a little each year. It has received most of its little bumps and bruises while stored. It needs a some attention to fix up some little details here and there but the work is all very mino
There is one small rust scab shown in the picture that won't require patching.
Most of the original leather interior is nice and intact with a couple panels on the driver seat that need replaced.
When built, everything (ball joints, bushings, fuel lines, brake lines, calipers, rotors, steering rack, etc.) was replaced with new or remanufactured parts.
This is for the person who wants a custom car

1983 Volvo 760 GLE V8 Hot Rod Conversion
1993 Camaro LT1 with T56 6-speed transmission
Rare real euro headlights with glass lenses and clear turn signals
Stock Dana 30 rearend with Detroit Locker differential
Brakes ATE rotors, remanufactured and painted calipers, new lines.
IPD sway bars and bushings
Strut brace
Lower front chassis brace
Vogtland lowering springs and Monroe performance shocks and struts
Mille Miglia 1000 wheels with 225/50/16 Yokohama performance tires
Sony cassette head unit with trunk mounted 6 disk changer
Infinity component speakers and cross overs
Autotalk TV/Weather/Traffic radio

Keyless remote with ignition kill
Custom padded, stitched vinyl uphostery on the dash
Custom leather wrapped steering wheel
Custom Leather shift boot
Custom install smoke side indicators
Custom 3" exhaust with Hooker Aerochamber muffler (sounds awesome)
Rare glass power sunroof
Power antenna from an 87 works great
Remanufactured steering rack
Big Bosch inline fuel pump and new in tank pre-pump

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Volvo Concept Estate hauls in great expectations [w/videos]

Wed, 05 Mar 2014

You're looking at the third leg of Volvo's award-winning concept trilogy, the Concept Estate. Despite its banal name, this sweeping longroof showcar has our attention like few other cars at the Geneva Motor Show.
It's not just that we have a weakness for shooting brakes or Volvo's take on the genre in particular (we can see some P1800ES in this design). We just think this car is exceptionally well surfaced, with a fantastic stance and the sort of clean lines that are singularly appropriate of a Scandinavian design. We also appreciate the details that are expected to inform future production models, including the T-shaped headlamps, strong rear shoulders and floating grille mount. In fact, the vast majority of the Concept Estate's design idiom is expected to make it to showrooms in future models, starting with the long-overdue, second-generation XC90 crossover.
We hope - but don't expect - that attitude carries over to the interior, which has stunning, white leather, floating clamshell seats backed in plaid. If there's one cabin feature that's expected to make it to production, it's a derivative of the car's new infotainment system, which features a massive touchscreen with tablet-like gesture controls.

Volvo to test 100 self-driving cars on Swedish roads [w/video]

Fri, 06 Dec 2013

Autonomous vehicles are increasingly being tested on public roads around the globe, including Nissan in Japan and Google here in the US, and now Volvo is preparing to test its own self-driving cars on the streets of Sweden. In conjunction with the state government, Volvo's Drive Me project kicks off next year, starting with the development of customer research and infrastructure technology before setting 100 self-driving cars loose on the streets of Gothenburg in 2017.
These 100 cars will be in the hands of customers, and the tests will help Volvo and the Swedish government track varying aspects of self-driving cars including economic benefits, consumer confidence, traffic flow and passenger safety. The technology being developed by Volvo uses not only on-board radar and sensors but also map data gathered from the cloud, and it controls all driving systems including the brakes, throttle and steering. Drivers can engage and disengage the car's autonomous drive mode by pushing a button on the steering wheel, and the technology will also allow for a self-parking feature.
While the cars shown in this demo are S60 models, the test vehicles will be based on Volvo's upcoming Scalable Product Architecture (SPA), which underpins future models like the next-gen Volvo XC90. Scroll down for a video and press release marking the announcement.

Volvo Concept Coupe is brand's 'next-generation P1800' [w/video]

Wed, 28 Aug 2013

Volvo is calling the Concept Coupe its "next-generation P1800."
The teasing can now officially come to an end - Volvo has released all the images, videos and details on its new Concept Coupe, and we're intrigued. The Swedish automaker is calling the concept its "next-generation P1800," and those are some pretty big shoes to fill. Fortunately, it's not all talk; there are clear links to Volvo's much-loved coupe in its shape, though we certainly wouldn't call the Concept Coupe 'retro.'

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