You Need This: 350-horsepower, turbocharged Volvo 242 track car

That is so awesome.

That engine bay is pretty.

I like a good LS swap but this is way more cool.

That is as cool as a Swedish winter!

The is the best looking volvo of all time. I "almost" bought one 13 years ago. I still lust after them. And this one is ready to go!

This photo is just... *bites fist*

HA! I did own one: a 1983 Volvo 242 with monkey sh!t brown interior.  IPD sway bars, Bilstein shocks, everything waiting for a V8 swap.  This turbo is awesome on its own--I like it as is--in fact it makes my heart ache for my old 242.  Word to the wise: If you buy the car, buy it WITH the wheels because finding wheels you actually like that fit volvos isn't the easiest thing to do.  

Funny, but there is a 544(?) next to this one--my father owned two of those creatures.  He had fun in the 1960's racing in canyon roads against American muscle cars.  They never stood a chance against the smaller, dated-looking Volvo.

Wants become needs.  I really like that car, and want it badly, but need it?  Not yet.

If I ever get my silver 242GT, it's keeping its red block.  It's also keeping an air filter and a timing cover, because I'm not a moron.

Don't know if y'all have seen what Hot Wheels has been up to lately...

DavyZ said:

...Funny, but there is a 544(?) next to this one--my father owned two of those creatures.  He had fun in the 1960's racing in canyon roads against American muscle cars.  They never stood a chance against the smaller, dated-looking Volvo.

When I first started trackday events in the mid-1980s, there was a primer-gray one that used to show up at Riverside Raceway in SoCal. It was way faster than expected.

Need to add a couple of inches of rear rake to it.