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?

 

Some people are just dumb.

 

If you want dumb questions just take your ride to a car show and sit back and wait, by the time the show is over you could write a book

 

i thought all delta 88's had 327's?

 

Folks are just ignorant you should have corrected him. told him the 455 swap was easy. And then tell him what the swap needs to work.

 

Boy you hit the nail on the head with that one. I love the "I had one exactly like yours! Only it was a 1973 Cutlass and it was beige!".

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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Originally Posted by dyscookn
drop in a big block four forty two.

That made me think of a guy who walked past my buddies 69 442 and said "that's not a real 442. It has an automatic transmission. It's a clone". :-)

 

lol more car show dummies! i love these stories!

 

when i first got my Quad 442, i had a friend say "how did they get a 4 42 to fit under that little hood". i never raised the hood for him, i just let him believe it.

 

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.

 

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

 

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!!!

 

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.

 

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?

 

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.