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    Putting V8s In Volvos Is Like Eating Peanuts: Future Drag Race Car Plucked From Redwoods
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    01/08/09

    In reply to Putting V8s In Volvos Is Like Eating Peanuts: Future Drag Race Car Plucked From Redwoods
    Forgot to mention: the trunk turned out to be full of small household appliances. Vacuum cleaner, blender, couple of phones. Bonus!
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    01/07/09

    In reply to Putting V8s In Volvos Is Like Eating Peanuts: Future Drag Race Car Plucked From Redwoods
    Finding and recovering the remains of a shapely Swedish 24 year-old in the Santa Cruz mountains is WAAY too close to "Unsolved Mysteries" material for comfort...
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    01/07/09

    In reply to Putting V8s In Volvos Is Like Eating Peanuts: Future Drag Race Car Plucked From Redwoods
    That last large picture is amazing. The little Volvo looks like a modest Lotto winner--disbelief, joy, hope--impossible not to love this car.
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    Image of ☠Grяrяrяrяrя, portrait of a chickenwolfmoosepig. ☠Grяrяrяrяrя, portrait of a chickenwolfmoosepig.
    01/07/09

    In reply to Putting V8s In Volvos Is Like Eating Peanuts: Future Drag Race Car Plucked From Redwoods
    How about taking the transporter too? I *really* want to see a LeMons transporter with a V-8 in it! Pleeeeeeeasssse???
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    01/07/09

    @☠Grяrяrяrяrяrяrя now gets up to 29 MPG highway (kindasortam...: Oh, you will; it will be selling hot dogs and sodas in the parking lot.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    01/07/09

    @☠Grяrяrяrяrяrяrя now gets up to 29 MPG highway (kindasortam...: You know, Hellhammer did mention that a mid-engine V8 Transporter could be built on a LeMons budget while we were there, he's got at least a dozen possibly good V8s in his collection, and I betcha the seller would let this one go cheap... but the problem would be finding fools to drive it.
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    01/07/09

    In reply to Putting V8s In Volvos Is Like Eating Peanuts: Future Drag Race Car Plucked From Redwoods
    My '89 244 sat for almost two years and started right up with a new battery. First try. Brakes work, lights work, everything works except the long-deceased handbrake.


    Is it inspectable? Hahahahahaha. Almost.


    For obvious reasons, I love this project. There was one of these behind an apartment house 'round here... I wonder what happened to it?

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    01/07/09

    In reply to Putting V8s In Volvos Is Like Eating Peanuts: Future Drag Race Car Plucked From Redwoods
    Ten years? Damn, Californians are spoiled.. My '78 244 had ten times as much as rust on it after it sat in my yard for ten minutes. Ten years ago!!


    /wicked, wicked jealous

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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    01/07/09

    @Slantsick, now with 30% less wit: It only rains for a few months per year here, and the SC mountains get good and hot in the summer, drying out what moisture does get in the car. The home-for-critters factor is really what's ruined the interior- looks like raccoons and/or possums found it quite comfortable.
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    01/07/09

    In reply to Putting V8s In Volvos Is Like Eating Peanuts: Future Drag Race Car Plucked From Redwoods
    Other than the broken back window, it looks a lot better than my '63 Rambler, and that only sat under a tree for 4 years.


    car1

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    01/07/09

    In reply to Putting V8s In Volvos Is Like Eating Peanuts: Future Drag Race Car Plucked From Redwoods
    That transporter needs a v8. BADLY.


    It's been done.


    [www.baja.com]


    Aussie hoons know exactly what they're doing.

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    01/07/09

    In reply to Putting V8s In Volvos Is Like Eating Peanuts: Future Drag Race Car Plucked From Redwoods
    How is not a PCH subject?
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    01/07/09

    @Jimal: It's got a PCH tag.
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    Image of Cognitive Friction Cognitive Friction
    01/07/09

    In reply to Putting V8s In Volvos Is Like Eating Peanuts: Future Drag Race Car Plucked From Redwoods
    With so many Volvo stories in one day, should we be expecting an umlaut to appear over the O in Jalopnik soon?


    (Oh, and 450 HP Chevy engine + '75 Swedish brick = WIN)

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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    01/07/09

    @Cognitive_Friction: Not one comment from SuzanneD, either... although I suspect FuzzyPlushroom is soiling himself in excitement.
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    01/07/09

    @Deartháir: a Cruder, Fart-Joke Version of graverobber: Fuck yeah!
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    Image of mechimike mechimike
    01/08/09

    @Deartháir: a Cruder, Fart-Joke Version of graverobber: I think I have SuzanneD beat in sheer volume of Volvos owned. Don't forget the semi-legendary LeMons 122. 122>242 ;-)
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    01/07/09

    In reply to Putting V8s In Volvos Is Like Eating Peanuts: Future Drag Race Car Plucked From Redwoods
    Maybe they should stuff a suspension in one, so it doesn't get passed by a Fiat with an engine 1/4 the size. ;)


    (Italian Stallions)

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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    01/07/09

    @cmice: Is that the sound of a leaking head gasket I hear?
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    01/07/09

    In reply to Putting V8s In Volvos Is Like Eating Peanuts: Future Drag Race Car Plucked From Redwoods
    Not to nitpick, but that's a B20. B21 was in 76 forward. The exhaust/intake manifold on the same side is a dead giveaway.


    Is it a manual tranny? Think Hellhammer would sell me the bellhousing?

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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    01/07/09

    @Belligerence Now!: OK, B20. It is a manual trans, but we might need it if we lose our grip on reality enough to build the Volvo-engined Spitfire. Did I mention that I've been offered a free engineless Spitfire?
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    Image of 1300ccsoffury 1300ccsoffury
    01/07/09

    @Murilee Martin: There's a cheap Spitfire ($300) for sale around these parts and guy claimed it was "90%" done". When prodded further, it basically came to that he had "90% of the parts" that it needed "200% assembly" to get a functioning Spitfire.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    01/07/09

    @Murilee Martin:


    ??


    I'm hoping you're planning on using the engine from the Volvo FH16. I'm not sure the one from the 240 will cut it.

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    01/07/09

    In reply to Putting V8s In Volvos Is Like Eating Peanuts: Future Drag Race Car Plucked From Redwoods
    Is it me, or with the death of the El Camino, has Jalopnik moved on to a new love, a new relationship with Volvos?
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    01/07/09

    @Deartháir: a Cruder, Fart-Joke Version of graverobber:


    I for one, welcome our goofy blond overlords.

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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    01/07/09

    @BRAWNDO_POWERED: And, I imagine, they welcome us.



    With Chocolate Moose! Heeere moosey-moose! Moose moose!

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    01/08/09

    @Deartháir: a Cruder, Fart-Joke Version of graverobber: I think it's like when a girl dumps you so you go and hook up with the girl she hates most, partly out of revenge but also partly out of the fact that you've always had a bit of a crush on the new chick and it turns out she's closet freak.
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    01/07/09

    In reply to Putting V8s In Volvos Is Like Eating Peanuts: Future Drag Race Car Plucked From Redwoods
    And why isn't this more rusted than it is??? He must've gotten the underbody coating.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    01/07/09

    @philibuster: I'm inclined to give the legendary Swedish steel, combined with inland California's less-than-salty weather, the credit.
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    01/07/09

    @FuzzyPlushroom: This is the least inland you can get without being in the water. Santa Cruz mountains are on the coast.
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    01/08/09

    @philibuster: You're gonna want that Tru-Coat
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    01/09/09

    @Skunky: What are mountains doing on the coast? That's a silly place for them.


    That being said, I maintain that it's not as coastal as Maine. And California doesn't salt the roads half as much, 'cause most of California isn't big on snow.

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    01/07/09

    In reply to Putting V8s In Volvos Is Like Eating Peanuts: Future Drag Race Car Plucked From Redwoods
    Oh man. The Santa Cruz mountains...my high school stomping grounds.


    We used to go party at this one unclaimed chunk of land called the "Clown Spot".


    It was so named because the first kids that ventured up the dirt road entry found nothing but a clown mask and a bra in the abandoned utility shed on the property. The logical conclusion was that some kind of clown-fetish rapist took his victims there.


    The second logical conclusion was that it'd be a great place to go drink on Friday and Saturday nights once all the parties got shut down down in town.


    This would be the place I took 16 people offroading in the family Suburban. This would be the place I managed to hydrolock the engine in my first Jeep, leading to my first summer job as a tire monkey at Goodyear, to which I owe much of my automotive knowledge and experience.


    So yeah, fun times to be had up off Summit and Bear Creek Roads.

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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    01/07/09

    @Mad_Science: Wish I still lived in Boulder Creek area, myself, but I just know one of these summers the entire mountain range is gonna burst into flames like a trick birthday cake candle.
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    Image of Truth thru Physics Truth thru Physics
    01/07/09

    @Mad_Science: Yep, and that would have been my Suburban that held the 16 people! It is amazing how well that 3/4 ton beast held up to the family abuse.


    Yes, Truth thru Physics is Mad Science's dad.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    01/07/09

    @Truth thru Physics: Howdy and welcome! Are you going to ground him now?
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    01/07/09

    @Truth thru Physics: It is my profound pleasure to make your acquaintance, sir. You raised a fine son, and he's found you a fabulous daughter-in-law, from all accounts (we hear she can WELD!) Please don't be a stranger in these parts.


    Great photo work at Lemons from you and your son, BTW.

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    01/08/09

    @Truth thru Physics: I thought I told you (some version of) that story...


    Another bit of minutia is that that night was when gas jumped from like $1.20/gal to 1.60 or 1.70 for some reason. I remember not being able to much gas for the $10 I had on me.


    Of course, I paid 1.65 for gas a little while ago...so I was feeling pretty nostalgic. Definitely miss The Truck, 40 gallon tank and all.

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