Do you get silly questions?
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Do you get silly questions?
Have my Delta 88 conv. for sale and a guy asked the usual ?'s like mileage, trans.,body work. It has a 350 v-8 and the guy asks how hard it would be to drop in a big block four forty two. I thought a minute and told him it was an easy swap if he had an original 352 Y block he could punch out the motor mounts on and drop it in. He says OH YEA and turns and walks away. Do you guys get these questions?
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I had one guy walk by and tell his buddies that my car must have been a "mid-year" 64 Cutlass because it looked similar to the 64 he used to have. Of course I had to ask him more details to which he told me mine had different front and back parts to his so that made it a mid year change car. I told him it sounds like he had a 65. He said no way, a 64. I asked where his side trim was and he said lower than mine. I told him he had a 65.
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i looked at a 1966 88 a couple years ago. the guy told me it had a 350 super rocket. after i looked at it i decided i did not want the car but told him that he may want to tell people that it is a 425 because he may get more people interested in it. he told me that i was wrong and that it was a 350 super rocket. after i showed him that the small block in my car was not as wide he said that it is because i had a 350 rocket and not a super rocket. then he said not to test him on oldsmobiles because he knew everything about oldsmobile.
#12
So I've had a few comments and ? on the 69 H/O since it came home.
Mostly quizzical looks and head turns. A few thumbs up and positive head nods.
One guy over by Wrigley Field yelled out "Fourfortytwo. 1970"
One woman whistled at me when I drove by. Another stared and waved. Gotta like both of those.
One guy authoritatively said "Nice GTO!" I can't print what I replied to him, but I don't think he was too happy to hear it.
Another guy said "Cutlass? 442?"
At least two people knew it was an Oldsmobile
Mostly quizzical looks and head turns. A few thumbs up and positive head nods.
One guy over by Wrigley Field yelled out "Fourfortytwo. 1970"
One woman whistled at me when I drove by. Another stared and waved. Gotta like both of those.
One guy authoritatively said "Nice GTO!" I can't print what I replied to him, but I don't think he was too happy to hear it.
Another guy said "Cutlass? 442?"
At least two people knew it was an Oldsmobile
#13
I always get the "does it have the the 442 cube engine?". With my 65, hardly anyone knows what it is. Its been called a GTO sometimes, a Chevelle sometimes. At a cruise night once a guy told me they didn't make 442's until 1966. When I said they made them in 1964, he said, "That's the GTO, not the 442" and walked away!!!
#14
Love it when someone sees the Silver Bullet and says "they didn't make too many H/O station wagons, did they"? Occassionally hear "this is a really rare car, there wern't very many made that were station wagons" . I just smile. Those folks, even if I told them the truth, would walk off still believing whatever they want to believe.
#15
So I have my vanity plates, OLDS-68: "What years is your Olds?"
A DJ says as I pull in to a local car show, "Thanks for bringing your '66 Olds".
And of course the ongoing, "What year is your Chevelle/Buick/Pontiac?"
Why bother with vanity plates?
A DJ says as I pull in to a local car show, "Thanks for bringing your '66 Olds".
And of course the ongoing, "What year is your Chevelle/Buick/Pontiac?"
Why bother with vanity plates?
#16
I always chuckle when I recall a guy at a show asking me,
"Is that really an Oldsmobile Cutlass." Felt like telling him it's a VW dummy.
I just shook my head and wondered why manufacturers bother to put emblems on a car people can't read anyway.Sometimes you just need selective hearing when you attend shows.
"Is that really an Oldsmobile Cutlass." Felt like telling him it's a VW dummy.
I just shook my head and wondered why manufacturers bother to put emblems on a car people can't read anyway.Sometimes you just need selective hearing when you attend shows.
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