{"id":97297,"date":"2023-03-20T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=97297"},"modified":"2023-03-20T00:45:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T05:45:43","slug":"paul-newmans-volvo-740-with-a-buick-grand-national-turbo-v6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=97297","title":{"rendered":"Paul Newman’s Volvo 740 with a Buick Grand National Turbo V6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paul Newman’s love of cars ran deep. Take for example his collection of engine swapped Volvos<\/a>. The first of the lot started with a 1988 Volvo 740 wagon sent to HESCO Engineering<\/a> outside of Birmingham, Alabama in 1988. There the company swapped the factory motor for a turbocharged 3.8 L LD5 V6<\/a> from a Buick Grand National. Behind the V6 sits a BorgWarner five-speed manual transmission from a Pontiac Firebird and limited-slip differential. It now rides on Bilstein shocks and IPD lowering springs. A set of four-wheel disc brakes are behind the Gemini 16-inch wheels. The car sold on Bring a Trailer<\/a> for $80,740.<\/p>\n

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Source: Bring a Trailer<\/a> via Jalopnik<\/a> via Piotr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Newman’s love of cars ran deep. Take for example his collection of engine swapped Volvos. The first of the lot started with a 1988 Volvo 740 wagon sent to HESCO Engineering outside of Birmingham, Alabama in 1988. There the company swapped the factory motor for a turbocharged 3.8 L LD5 V6 from a Buick… Read More »Paul Newman’s Volvo 740 with a Buick Grand National Turbo V6<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":97307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[565],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-565"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Paul-Newman-1988-Volvo-740-with-a-Buick-Grand-National-Turbo-V6-01.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":100646,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=100646","url_meta":{"origin":97297,"position":0},"title":"Paul Newman\u2019s Volvo V90 with a LS2 V8","author":"swaptastic","date":"May 22, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Paul Newman loved his engine-swapped Volvo wagons. 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