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[MattNH]

Found it, note the FI insignia left quarter panel top.
Pic was taken right after returning from beautiful Southeast Asia


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That's a fantastic picture. The truck behind it ain't too bad either

 

[Supervisor42]

Real nice TOP...

What ever happened to it...!?

@3t Dear Lord! don't say something like:
"First ex-wife got it in the divorce".
or "Sold it in 1982 for $800 because I was hard up for cash".
There are older guys wandering around here and we don't need another coronary.

Maybe: "Totaled it going 125 on the Santa Monica freeway and walked away"...
or "Donated it in 2015 to the millennial's museum of "Cars that don't suck".

 

[threetango]

Absolutely right on the second to last one.
Not drinking, just hot rodding.
Was only doing about 75 with slick tires on a wet pavement 2 lane and fiberglass does not like fence posts.
TOTALED!

 

[Supervisor42]

Absolutely right on the second to last one.
Not drinking, just hot rodding.
Was only doing about 75 with slick tires and fiberglass does not like fence posts.
TOTALED!

...A noble and fitting end for a great warrior.

 

[threetango]

True that, I had not even a scratch,

 

[SHOOTER13]

WoW...!!

 

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For TOP:

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[threetango]

For TOP:

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That Boss 429 was powerful but I could never seem to beat the Dodge Dart "Max Wedge" 413.

Turn up the volume and listen to that lope.

 

[SHOOTER13]

Nice power plant..............and headers !!

 

[Supervisor42]

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Ahh! The Olds 442...
Holds a special warm place in my heart. You have to put it into perspective. Oldsmobile was the original 'land-yacht'.
They were huge ungodly-heavy monsters built like a tank. (my brother killed 3 deer one year with his Olds '98)
8 feet from you to the front bumper and over 5000 pounds of good American steel made it a really good deer hunter.
When the 442's appeared on the street, we were like, an Oldsmobile.... performance car?
Well, Oldsmobile had been building massive cubic-inches into engines to power those monsters for years.
And those things drank horsepower like water because of their massive weight.
They dropped 425 and 455 cu-in. engines in everything. Like Snickers bars in kids bags on Halloween.
In 1968 the standard engine in those barges was 360 HP. Nobody noticed because they were so heavy.

Then they dropped some of those powerplants in their "little" car, the Cutlass.
Lots of 'em!!!

They had Hurst 4-speeds in 'em just like our Chevy's. And they were not 'rare'.
Were they fast?

"General Motors dropped the cap on engine size in 1970, and Oldsmobile responded by making the Olds 455 V8 the standard 4-4-2 engine. Magazine ads using an offbeat mad scientist trumpeted "Dr. Olds introduces as large a V-8 as ever bolted into a special-performance production automobile!" Output was 365 hp (272 kW) and 500 lb⋅ft (680 N⋅m), with a 370 hp (276 kW) variant available with the W30 option.

370 horsepower will take your lunch money.
You learned to spot that tiny 'W30' badge real quick.

It was truly "not your daddy's Oldsmobile".

 

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Classics....!!

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[msharley]

Hey 3,

That Nitrous............OUCH! (or ........goodbye Chevelle)

Later, Mark

 

[msharley]