Another week half in the bag, which means it is Thorsday and time to bring out the best junk we could find that originally hails from the Scandinavian Peninsula. This next feature started life as a simple Volvo sedan, probably purchased new by an insurance salesman named Steven as a practical car for his wife Beth to take the kids to soccer practice. As the kids grew up, Steven and his wife grew apart and Steven got the car back in the lightly contested divorce. Steven hated the way the car reminded him of Beth and the slow and cautious way in which she approached life, from the way she approached eating chicken wings with a fork to the carefully folded sleeves on her favorite reindeer Christmas sweater. Even the kids had adopted Beth's watered down community college aspirations and
the Volvo...that slow and plodding 4-cylinder powered pile of safety was a constant oozing scab in Steven's new apartment driveway. Steven needed a change, so he grew a mullet, joined a cross-fit club, and shoved a fire-breathing V8 mated to a 6-speed manual into front of the Volvo. At least, that is what
could have happened...who
really knows the truth? Find this
1991 Volvo 740 LT1 V8 offered for $8,500 in Moraga, CA via craigslist.
Tip from Andrey S.
Back in 1984, Cadillac was not trying to ape German car makers to make the fastest sedan to run the Nurburgring. They primarily focused on making large cars that got middling better gas mileage than the parade floats of the 1970's. No one would mistake a Coupe DeVille for an Audi or BMW back in these days. Today's feature has a late model LT1 engine swap though the seller here is optimistically thinking this 5.7 came from a Vette as the engine cover looks like it was from a late model Fleetwood/Roadmonster/Caprice. Either way, the current engine provides significantly more motivation than the stock unit. Find this 1984 Cadillac Coupe DeVille for sale in Columbus, OH for $5,500 via craigslist. 
