Four-on-the-floor, intercooler, Enkeis… and 145,000 miles on the odometer.
Murilee Martin
Even though nearly 30 years have passed since the final Volvo 240s were built, I still have no problem finding plenty of examples of the most iconic Swedish car of all time during my junkyard explorations. The intended successor to the 240, the 740, was sold in the United States from the 1985 through 1992 model years, and these cars are much harder to find today. Here’s a very clean, low-mile early 740 Turbo, found in a Denver-area yard last month.
Murilee Martin
I had a hard time believing this odometer reading could be honest, since owners of old Volvo bricks tend to drive them forever, but this car looked very clean when I saw it (don’t get too excited about all those nice parts, though, because when I returned a week later to pull a Terraplane cylinder head, this Volvo had been stripped clean of the good stuff).
Murilee Martin
This turbocharged-and-intercooled four-banger made 156 horsepower, which was exciting stuff for 1986. That was nearly 30 more than this car’s BMW 325e competitor.
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The four-on-the-floor manual transmission was pretty old-timey by the middle 1980s, but at least this one has the pushbutton-controlled overdrive.
Keyword: 1986 Volvo 740 Turbo Is Junkyard Treasure