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Originally Posted by Oldsguy
Pretty nice, did you apply the stripes?
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No, I actually bought the car this way except for the wheels and tires! It had SSII's w/whitewalls and that just didn't work for me. Those are actually 15x8 w/295-50 on the rear.
The story with this car is I decided to look for a 70 flattop to make a copy of my W-31. I wanted non-A/C so it would not have any dash vent holes, a gold one if possible because my W-31 is gold, a 350 car(been awesome if it had been a 4 speed
), and of course, a car in very good condition. I had only looked for a month or two and this one popped up in
HURST, Texas! I couldn't beleive it! The car was everything I was looking for and more!
The guy had already put the hood on it, and did a quickie job on the stripes! He had already rebuilt the motor with the Edelbrock performer rpm package and did it exactly like they did when they made 397 HP and 400 ft.lbs. He also completely rebuilt the front and rear suspension w/boxed control arms in the rear and huge aftermarket sway bars front and rear, and new performance shocks on the front and air shocks on the rear for towing! The car runs great and handles better than I could have hoped for! He put buckets in it but I have a 4 door Cutlass and I am going to recover that bench seat and put it into the wagon. It even has a class 3 heavy duty hitch on it so I can actually hook a trailer up to it and haul my W-31! I would not tow long distance, it would be more for the look! Eventually, I will probably drive them both, with the trailer on the wagon, and load the W-31 on the trailer a short distance away and drive into the show looking like I towed it there all the way with thw wagon! I figure everybody would get a big kick out of it, especially at an Oldsmobile show!
It will be many years before I have both cars restored to take to shows but I have them and that is half the battle! Now if I can just win the lottery, I can get these done while I can enjoy them!
Thanks for all the positive comments guys!