Half an Audi
Clever dudes leave the 7-11 in their 2 wheel Audi POS. Wonder if it was originally a Quatro?
My Car Made Her Puke
My daughter Claire has been retching as we approached our car lately. She says it’s the “smell” but I think it’s psychosomatic; she remembers times she had motion sickness and when she sees the car it triggers an upset stomach. Well, today she went and puked in the parking lot of a rest stop. More details and a technicolor photo after the jump…
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Jalopnik’s Red Block Engine of the day
Somehow I missed the April 22nd, 2008 “Engine of the Day” post on Jalopnik that honored the Volvo red block. Short but sweet. Nice photo of a custom motor and good comments.
Little Red Wagon
I love these little illustrations from the 1986 user manual. Somehow they popped up from the Volvo USA site.
Getting Power to the Dash, if not the Road
I pulled the instrument panel again and figured out the problem with the tach install. I had posted to the BrickBoard and a reader pointed out that I probably forgot to plug into the circuit board. He posted a picture and sure enough, that was the problem.
Now that I have a tach I can see this car doesn’t rev very high at all. The only time it went over 3k RPM was today driving 65mph up a long hill with overdrive switched off. I see now the B230F hits peak torque of 136 lb/ft at 2750 RPM. No wonder the red block engine last so long. There’s no pressure.
Ford to Sell Volvo? (Part One)
From the AP, October 27th:
Ford Motor Co. may be joining the ranks of U.S. automakers seeking to shed operations, as a newspaper reported Sunday the industry bellwether is weighing a sale of the slow-selling Volvo brand to BMW AG.
Somehow I don’t see Volvo going to BMW. But I wonder if Ford will sell Volvo.
From Jalopnik:
It’s probably a bad thing to fly a private jet from Detroit to Washington, DC when you’re going to ask Congress to provide you a multi-billion dollar loan to bail you out of a financial crisis. That fact hasn’t stopped Ford’s Alan Mulally, along with the heads of the other automakers, who not only flew to D.C. in the Ford private jet but are, apparently, unwilling to fully cut themselves from the corporate crack that is their private air forces.
ugh
How I Failed to Install a Tachometer
I figured I’d take my mind off the fact that I may not have a job in a few weeks and finally install the tach I pulled from a 244 in a VA junkyard this summer. While I love the big clock in the Volvo instrument panel, I’d also like to see what’s going on with the engine. Unfortunately I now have no clock, no tach, no odometer and no speedometer.