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Story of my Olds
To go along with a guy 19 years old wanting to restore his Olds, Great! I say! yea it gets exspensive, I turned 50 this year.
My 70 delta 88 I inherited from my next door nieghbor who passed on a year ago at 86, Art bought this car new in 1970, I am second owner. Summer before last he was on hospice, called me, and signed the title over to me. Things like this are emotional as being his nieghbor I would help him with what he needed help with (life lesson there) not for anything I could expect or want.
I felt the car was more of a "pain" to have as it didn't fit into the garage without some modifications to the structure, ect. Leaked oil, tranny, power steering, about the best i can say is the interior is emmaculant, and it did run.
I found myself back in 1970 away from computers, internet and otherwise general trash of today. Since then with this car I, and my son, have got it in very good shape, last week I dropped the 8 track, and set the tracking on it, sounds great now.
I believe this car also has a cameo appereance in the A team, episode I was watching last year filmed in 1986, Art (previous owner) lived in Malibu CA till mid 1986.
Guess what this boils down too is, for me anyway, getting to work on a distributor, carb, points, ect, and with a 455, gets me to the "better time" of my life when life was alot easier.
At 19, I congratulate you on your preserveance!!!! Keep us informed, and I guarenntee you I at least will help with what I can, best of luck!
Kevin
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