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Old Sep 4, 2017 | 08:00 AM
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Starfires

Post up your mid 70 to 80s starfires
Old Sep 4, 2017 | 09:45 AM
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Still looking for a nice 75 I can convert to small block olds power. These days your tripping over Shelby's and Yenko's, but '75 Starfire's are very hard to come by. I used to see perfectly good one's in the junkyard years ago, never thought much of it. Now I'm sorry I didn't rescue one.
Old Sep 4, 2017 | 10:53 AM
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Someone post a pick, I thought the Starfire had gone the way of the steam engine in the 60's. No idea they made them up into the 80's.
Old Sep 4, 2017 | 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by shiftbyear
Still looking for a nice 75 I can convert to small block olds power. These days your tripping over Shelby's and Yenko's, but '75 Starfire's are very hard to come by. I used to see perfectly good one's in the junkyard years ago, never thought much of it. Now I'm sorry I didn't rescue one.

Here's a '75 w/claimed 50K mis on it. Pricy, and maybe too nice to mod, but its been popping up regularly on Indy CL for more than a year with the same price.

https://indianapolis.craigslist.org/...271895988.html

https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...-not-mine.html
Old Sep 4, 2017 | 11:12 AM
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I don't recall ever seeing one of them. Cool.
Old Sep 4, 2017 | 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Indy_68_S
Here's a '75 w/claimed 50K mis on it. Pricy, and maybe too nice to mod, but its been popping up regularly on Indy CL for more than a year with the same price.

https://indianapolis.craigslist.org/...271895988.html

https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...-not-mine.html
Very solid car, but he's still really proud of it.
Old Sep 4, 2017 | 04:26 PM
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Beautiful car, begging for a 400hp small block olds. Starfire's did have their 15 minutes of fame though.


https://books.google.com/books?id=S3...0stock&f=false
Old Sep 4, 2017 | 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by zeeke
Someone post a pick, I thought the Starfire had gone the way of the steam engine in the 60's. No idea they made them up into the 80's.
Google images will show you all you want.

This version of the Starfire was introduced in 1975 and made through the 1980 model year. In all my travels to Oldsmobile car shows over the last 25 years, I've never see one. It was the Olds version of the Chevy Monza and Buick Skyhawk.

Old Sep 4, 2017 | 06:15 PM
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I thought it looked more like a Vega.
Old Sep 4, 2017 | 07:23 PM
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I thought it looked more like a Vega.
The Vega was a different animal that came out four years earlier, in 1971. It was a twin to the Pontiac Astre. Neither looked anything like a Monza or Starfire.


1971 Chevrolet Vega





1973 Pontiac Astre




1976 Chevrolet Monza

Old Sep 4, 2017 | 09:19 PM
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So the Vega was squashed second gen Camaro? I don't remember the Monza either. Was was that little piece of... Pontiac had the Sunbird? My sister had one in yellow, real junk.
Old Sep 5, 2017 | 06:44 AM
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Here's my '78!
43,000 miles, nearly 100% original. I bought it as a college commuter car in 2015. Manual steering, manual brakes. Iron Duke power. Love the thing to death, but I've been trying to get rid of it for about a year now. Problem is, people don't like them quite as much as I do and they just get cut up. I've never seen another one like it.








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