Not mine! Not an Olds engine...but COOL!
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Not mine! Not an Olds engine...but COOL!
Surfing Denver's Craigslist and I saw this... I don't know about you but I think Gassers are awesome!
http://denver.craigslist.org/cto/4309348147.html
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1961 Oldsmobile F-85 Cutlass Gasser
Professionally built street-legal gasser. $21,000 invested in parts alone. New build, new engine, new transmission, new rear: Driven less than 600 miles. 2" x 3" x 1/8" wall jig-welded chassis with 10-point roll cage. Narrowed 12-bolt Chevy rear with Yukon posi, Moser 33-spline axles, 4.10 gears. Speedway front straight-axle kit with parallel leaf springs and disc brakes. JAZ 16-gallon fuel cell. Autometer Sport-Comp gauges. Built TH350 transmission with 8" 4,000 stall converter. Balanced and blueprinted 355ci Chevy engine, Crane solid cam, 11:1 forged pistons, ported World Products Sportsman II heads, Edelbrock tunnel ram intake with modified 600 cfm Holley carbs. MSD ignition. Afco aluminun radiator. 503 horsepower. 2,800 lbs (plus driver). Estimated ET at sea level: 11.0 (11.9 @ Denver). Many spare body parts and hardware. Painted gray primer (photos appear blue).
Call Warren for an appointment 303-487-9810 I do not respond to emails.
http://denver.craigslist.org/cto/4309348147.html
text from ad
1961 Oldsmobile F-85 Cutlass Gasser
Professionally built street-legal gasser. $21,000 invested in parts alone. New build, new engine, new transmission, new rear: Driven less than 600 miles. 2" x 3" x 1/8" wall jig-welded chassis with 10-point roll cage. Narrowed 12-bolt Chevy rear with Yukon posi, Moser 33-spline axles, 4.10 gears. Speedway front straight-axle kit with parallel leaf springs and disc brakes. JAZ 16-gallon fuel cell. Autometer Sport-Comp gauges. Built TH350 transmission with 8" 4,000 stall converter. Balanced and blueprinted 355ci Chevy engine, Crane solid cam, 11:1 forged pistons, ported World Products Sportsman II heads, Edelbrock tunnel ram intake with modified 600 cfm Holley carbs. MSD ignition. Afco aluminun radiator. 503 horsepower. 2,800 lbs (plus driver). Estimated ET at sea level: 11.0 (11.9 @ Denver). Many spare body parts and hardware. Painted gray primer (photos appear blue).
Call Warren for an appointment 303-487-9810 I do not respond to emails.
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Will never understand why some think it is better to remove a superior Oldsmobile engine and replace it with a Chevy engine, especially in an F-85 Cutlass.
Last edited by anthonyP; Feb 7, 2014 at 05:32 PM.
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I think you meant to post this in the Shorty Toronado post.
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right you are. Seems easy to get lost in these threads while looking on the phone!
But on subject, yeah it’s a shame this doesn’t have an olds engine in it. My dad has been building a ‘63 LeMans altered wheelbase car and it has a 455 Pontiac with a th400.
But on subject, yeah it’s a shame this doesn’t have an olds engine in it. My dad has been building a ‘63 LeMans altered wheelbase car and it has a 455 Pontiac with a th400.
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Arnie Beswick's 63 LeMans AWB was packing a 421. Beastly thing. He brought it to Farmington Dragway Nostalgia Drags early 90s and the thing was almost uncontrollable even with the suspension and body mods. Put on a good show though!
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