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Well, it's with a heavy heart that I inform y'all that I'm selling the Cutlass. After spending years and way too much money butchering this car into my dream hot rod, life gets in the way. And by life, I mean the damn housing market. I've currently got it listed at $12k, what do y'all think about that price?
Total build description goes as follows (I can't post pics as I'm currently out of the country using crap wifi).
-1967 Oldsmobile Cutlass F-85-197X 455 out of a jet boat, rebuilt to a 468 with maybe 1k miles on it, a turbo thrust 350 tunnel ram with a single carb, PS, PB, making 450HP/500ftlbs according to the drive on Dyno.
-TH350 with a shift kit, 2500 stall, and finned high capacity oil pan-1967 Olds 442 10 bolt with 3.55 gears-8" of lift via 5" lift spindles and 3" cups-Wagon springs and coil overs in the back-true dual straight pipe exhaust dumped at the axle with high flow manifolds-dual piston wildwood disc brakes up front, drums in rear
-26x5" tires up front (15x4 rims)-28x12.5 tires in back (15x10 rims)
-Paint is ****-Some Bondo in the rear passenger quarter, otherwise solid car-interior needs love but is all there/presentable, column shift auto, needs speedo recalibrated
Located in DFW Texas area.
I will say that it's not all sad. Though I'm losing this hot rod to help afford a house, I also managed to snag a dream car of mine, a 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 that I'm gonna keep as a tinkering project (and not turn into a fire breather like the cutlass haha)
I have been wrong before, but I suspect we are on the eve of a nasty correction in the housing market, as the wheels come off this economy.
correction in the global economic geopolitical model. Post ww2 demography is the correction. The boomers in America are the only ones who had replacement children (millinials) since we have suburbs to allow them. All European countries moved to cities where larger families were discouraged after ww2. China one child policy and the collapse of the Russian population. This has resulted in the upcoming deindustrializing and end of global economy. Buckle up butter cup. We are in for a major shake up decades in the making.
Not to get off on a tangent…but “Boomers” kids are Gen X…my generation.
Gen X had millennials.
That depends. My dad was born in 45. He's the earliest boomer (actually, the war was still on when he was born, my granddad was Corps of Engineers and never went overseas; my mom's dad was a farmer (essential occupation)). I was born in 79, I'm the last Gen X. Part of this is educated people have less children, later; he did dental school and 2 years in the USAF before moving to another state and meeting my mom. It's also why Idiocracy is a documentary, but I digress. Due to his events in life, he almost had a millennial first kid, and my siblings definitely are (who came later).
Point being, it is perfectly in the range for a 1955 boomer to have 1982-87 millennial kids. Not everyone pops out kids at 20 like puppies.
What's not random is the global demographic pattern. China, Japan, and Korea, traditional exporters of cheap product, have aged out of the ability to produce labor intensive items. Not higher value added items which use automation. The partnership of the US and Mexico is the right mix of young to medium age workforce to produce low and higher value added items. This is likely where you or your children will get their product, and things will cost more. Not sure if quality will be any better.
