Wierd autocross cars, Oppo needs this guy.

"Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer" (dash-doorhandle-and-bondo)
06/07/2016 at 14:43 • Filed to: None

this is my buddy’s 1967 Volvo Canadian.

lowered, repowered, and competitive.

this is the new track car project

the prestigious 1964 Sunbeam (Hillman) Imp. O.K. So old Volvos are perfectly wierd and everything, but after 5 Volvos, He really felt like giving Scottish cars a try. It gets wierder....

Mopar? but wait,

Seat belts would just hinder this awesome ejector seat feature.

made in Paisley, Scotland.

choke control just in front of shifter

the rear glass opens

but it’s what’s in the boot that counts:

and 850 cc all aluminum Coventry climax featherweight, not unlike what powered early Lotuses. Leaning way over, it’s almost a straight/flat 4. Read up on this engine, it’s got a great racing pedigree. My friend describes the looks as a “shrunken corvair beaten by the ugly stick” and that works for me. Oppo needs more of this guy, I’ll bug him to sign up. He’s Known on the local scene for tracking some real oddball cars.

I don’t know, do you think he and his means of conveyance would be welcome around here?

The volvo is powered by a 95 3400 firebird v6 converted to carburetor and traditional ignition. When we both had chevettes years ago I put flames and mags on mine and drove it for years, he put a 4 barrel 4.3 from an astro van into his. He only drove it once.

DISCUSSION (32)

Telumektar > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
06/07/2016 at 14:51

My Hero.

Party-vi > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
06/07/2016 at 14:52

‘fuck are those copper pipes for?

Birddog > Party-vi
06/07/2016 at 14:53

Looks like coolant.

KnowsAboutCars > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
06/07/2016 at 14:53

I don’t know, do you think he and his means of conveyance would be welcome around here?

Admit it, you do know.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Party-vi
06/07/2016 at 14:54

to make temp sending unit talk to 1967 volvo dash.

Birddog > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
06/07/2016 at 14:54

Are those Dodge mags? They look like the 10 spoke wheels from an 80s Magnum or Cordoba.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Birddog
06/07/2016 at 14:57

those are the ones, they’re awesome.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > KnowsAboutCars
06/07/2016 at 14:58

I do.

Birddog > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
06/07/2016 at 14:58

Very cool! Those rims don’t get enough love.

Party-vi > Birddog
06/07/2016 at 14:59

‘fuck are they doing all the way back there?

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Birddog
06/07/2016 at 14:59

they’ve got a 60s super stock look

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
06/07/2016 at 15:00

“shrunken corvair beaten by the ugly stick”is actually accurate in every way. They went so far as to buy a Corvair to play with rear suspension designs, and then in an attack of Britishness decided swing axles were garbage for the rear and redesigned the rear suspension from how it would be on a Corvair... while developing a swing axle-like setup for the front. HURRR

I’ve been wanting an Imp for a while.

Birddog > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
06/07/2016 at 15:02

Yeah, like the old Halibrand wheels.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
06/07/2016 at 15:02

Also, the rear lights on the Imp appear to be trailer lights. Dafuq? Whatever the opposite of Frenching is, that would be the way to describe those taillights.

Berang > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
06/07/2016 at 15:02

Kinja'd!!!

I know where this is going.

Life and Times of Magoo: The People's Champ > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
06/07/2016 at 15:03

I don’t know, do you think he and his means of conveyance would be welcome around here?

I nominate him for President.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/07/2016 at 15:04

I knew you’d be all over this one. It runs, but it’s likely fate is getting stuffed with a light modern fwd drivetrain out back, it makes 35 horsepower stock, He’s been told there are more of these cars in the world with roll cages than with licence plates.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/07/2016 at 15:06

Car came that way, the originals are in the frunk.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
06/07/2016 at 15:08

With the stock drivetrain, I’m pretty sure anybody looking at where the radiator is and how it and the waterpump are setup has got to cringe a little, but if it works, it works. There’s definitely nothing wrong with being able to fit a transverse engine setup back there, because in their genius they made a longitudinal drivetrain *and stuff* that is wider than it is long.

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
06/07/2016 at 15:08

this is my buddy’s 1967 Volvo Canadian.

That’s aboot 1 537.87 US Volvo

I’ll show myself out...

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/07/2016 at 15:10

rad fan is a pusher too

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Party-vi
06/07/2016 at 15:15

I’ll ask.

vondon302 > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
06/07/2016 at 15:16

Nice. Get him in here!

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
06/07/2016 at 15:22

I absolutely love those wheels on the Volvo

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/07/2016 at 15:50

Americaning. Americaning is the opposite of Frenching.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
06/07/2016 at 15:54

I have a friend with a b5 S4 wagon. He's made like 2 comments and then gave up trying to be an OPPO.

Rufant > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
06/07/2016 at 16:03

If that Imp is too rusty, he could go for the re-body.

Kinja'd!!!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
06/07/2016 at 16:08

Except that hot rodding as a thing, involving particularly the “frenching” of headlights, was a very distinctly American thing. Would Americaning of headlights be a pop out and adding of chrome done by French people who hate hot rods? SO CONFUSE

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Rufant
06/07/2016 at 16:15

I am not familiar with this

Rufant > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
06/07/2016 at 16:18

Kinja'd!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginetta_C…

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Rufant
06/07/2016 at 16:28

neat!

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/07/2016 at 16:36

Hmm...that’s a good point, but I think what you said is accurate. Frenching is something we do to make something look clean and fancy (like the French), Anericaning could be something they do to make something look ridiculous and hodgepodged (like me and my fellow Americans).