Interesting Article
#1
Interesting Article
Has anyone seen this article? I like the story of course, but a few things made me curious:
http://driving.ca/oldsmobile/auto-ne...oldsmobile-442
http://driving.ca/oldsmobile/auto-ne...oldsmobile-442
- "L34 high horsepower 350 engine?"
- sending the original 4-speed shifter back to Hurst for a rebuild? Do they do that?
- A 442 delivered without the bumper exhaust cutouts?
- steered away from the W30 by a drag race champion?!
#3
Has anyone seen this article? I like the story of course, but a few things made me curious:
http://driving.ca/oldsmobile/auto-ne...oldsmobile-442
http://driving.ca/oldsmobile/auto-ne...oldsmobile-442
- "L34 high horsepower 350 engine?"
- sending the original 4-speed shifter back to Hurst for a rebuild? Do they do that?
- A 442 delivered without the bumper exhaust cutouts?
- steered away from the W30 by a drag race champion?!
Poburn wanted the big block 455-cubic-inch W30 engine option. But Kinney explained power-to-weight ratios meant the lighter 350-cubic-inch high-horsepower engine was a better choice.
Total BS.
The Oldsmobile Cutlass would be ordered with... an L34 special high-horsepower engine otherwise only available in the heavier Olds Vista Cruiser station wagons.
Total BS.
If he actually believes either of these two things, then the salesman really gave him a good working over in 1972.
As for the Hurst shifter rebuild? Yeah, they used to do that.
- Eric
#4
Nothing to it - it's a journalist for a small paper who doesn't know anything about old cars like we do, relating a story as told by an owner. I think we know being an owner doesn't mean (s)he's knows as much about his car as some geeks on the Internet.
#5
sending the original 4-speed shifter back to Hurst for a rebuild? Do they do that?
Yes - had mine done when they were still in OH before being bought out by B & M.
Looks like they still do, though says through a third party now:
http://www.hurst-shifters.com/shifter-rebuild-program/
Yes - had mine done when they were still in OH before being bought out by B & M.
Looks like they still do, though says through a third party now:
http://www.hurst-shifters.com/shifter-rebuild-program/
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