We all know Thorsday is the best day of the week. How can you have Thorsday without awesome Swedish steel? You can’t, so for your consideration is this example of a car with an engine that sounds like a nest of angry bees, needs oil, and may possibly smoke more than a middle school student behind the teacher’s lounge. With emission standards tightening it is hard to find two stroke marine engines and weed eaters let alone automobile engines. The rules are making it harder, and I submit conspiring, to prevent us from unleashing our inner Erik Carlsson and beating the likes of Porsche, MG, and fellow Swede Volvo in a rally stage with an underpowered car. But wait! Here is your opportunity as some hero has listed this
1966 SAAB 96 Special on Craigslist in Upton Massachusetts for a mere $6,000.00. That price is of course U.S. Dollars and not Swedish Krona.
Volvos have always been a fascinating proposition for me. Their approach to luxury is so similar, yet so different to their German rivals. Volvos are calm, compared to the rowdy, competitive German brands; quite happy to sit in the background, safe in the knowledge that there will always be some people who don't want that brashness. However, that calmness manifests itself as being dull to others, so, ocassionally, Volvo has to let its hair down. Find this 1996 Volvo 850R for sale in Beechboro, WA for $6,300 AUD ($4,710 USD at the time of writing) via Carsales.
