Thank you for restoring my faith in humanity.

It seems like a rear-engined VW Beetle would be a better starting-point.

My god, such hostility!  It’s almost like someone suggested that you’re not the only person in the world and you flipped out or something.

How WELL a headlight performs, not how ‘good.’

Looks like a really clean platform for a big-power engine swap, so Nice Price for that.

I know I’m dull as dishwater, but that Ford F-350 is BAD-ASS.  Especially as it is smog-exempt here in California!

Power to weight, man - this is why an 80 hp motorcycle will walk almost any production car to 60.

Yes, Dennis...

Nice. I went AWD Roadmaster with a small turbo LS.

My commute is short and I’m big, so... a dead-stock looking 1996 Buick Roadmaster with AWD and a turbocharged aluminum-block LS motor.

Stock-size wheels with good tires and a stock-looking and sounding exhaust and I’ll go $4000 for it.

The OE recommendation on the timing belt is 6 years/90,000 miles. It’s an interference engine and should have had the belt done in 2010 and 2016. Not a great sign maintenance-wise.

Be shroud of your hemiglute repair; it’s a good job!

I, too, am a pervert when it comes to this stuff. My current fantasy build is to stuff a 1996 Roadmaster wagon with the running gear off of a Trailblazer SS and a boosted LS stroker. I figure 4500 pounds with 600 lb/ft from 1500 rpm would make for a great AWD wagon.

But not this Volvo.

Yeah, a van is a light truck just like a pickup truck is a light truck.

It will NEVER smog in California because the 4.8 is a truck motor. CARB won’t let you run a 2020 truck motor in a 1976 car, let alone a 1999 truck motor in a 1998 car.

My main objection, aside from the price being at least $4000 high, is that it’s the Wrong Swap.

You know what else has 300 hp and FWD?

I drove a wagon + automatic transmission variant of this in the early 90s and MY! GOD! was it a penalty box. Cramped, slow, loud, numb, and cumbersome.