I'm going to buy a beater 70-72 Cutlass or F-85 with an Action Line Six, gut some crappy air cleaner, weld the two barrel base in with an offset to get it back centered into a repro OAI base and slap a glasstek OAI hood on it!

It's time to join the stupid OAI on everything craze!

 

John - What meds have you taken, today?

 

Do you really need another project?

 

Your car, your call, go for it.

 

I used to daily a six banger 71 Skylark. Freaking great mileage.

 

I guy here in CT had a 70 Supreme, 6 banger, 3 onda tree. I thought it was pretty cool. Could be a good starting point for you!

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DARE to be different.
Be cool to see the same thing in a 68-69 with a morphed W cleaner & bumper OAI.
Then split the exhaust in two. 3 cylinders per pipe. Bet itd sound better than the current fart pipe craze.
Call it a Cutlass Six, F86, 222 or 232 depending on the carb barrels and trans. Blow minds at the shows...keep the hood closed call it a high dollar auction car 1 of 1.
Screw with AI too...

 

I am thinking about adding (Twin webers) shown below to my 69 6 banger.... If I ever get to it.

 

Just make sure you flip the air cleaner over (many horsepowers).

 

Ironically, there's a 68 Cutlass S convertible with I6 project for sale on Marketplace right now. One of 410 made, which makes it more rare than a 1968 H/O.

 

By the way, it needs to be three-on-the-tree.

 

x2!

 

That would make a great daily , good mileage, style and easy to repair..plus it’s. Drop top.. 😜

 

I commented on this post on FB. Are the production numbers really known for that? I googled the same thing he did and got the same AI generated spreadsheet. I've seen the production numbers for 442's which, I think, came from Year One years ago, not any factory literature.

 

The 410 number comes from Helen Early via Setting the Pace. I have a tabulation of the production numbers listed in that book.

 

Go 4 barrel, 3 on the tree and straight off a header. Only way it will be cool apparently. Not sure what you trying to accomplish with this. Haven't seen many OAI cars locally, apparently a problem in your area.

 

Apparently, there are quite a few here that don't like people personalizing their own cars. Not all of us were lucky enough to order one of these brand new exactly the way we wanted it, or able to afford to buy a perfect example these days. God forbid someone thinks the OAI is really cool and just wants to add it to a regular Cutlass. Or a 442 rear bumper on a Supreme, etc. Like a cowl hood on a 69 Camaro or a 70 Chevelle, they just look good.

 

The problem is that all these "rugged individualists" who want to build the car "their way" really just want it to look like every other one they see on the interwebs. It's kind like 69 Camaros at any other car show. After the first half dozen, they really all look alike and I move off to something else. Dare to be different.

 

I agree. But after 50+ years it's hard to be different anymore. I mean, look at the guys that do LS swaps. Even though they try to trick them out to appear as an Olds engine, they get raked over the coals and sent out to the back 40 to repent for their sins. I'd much rather see a plain something with a few of the odd and cool options from new added to them than another freaking clone or tribute.

 

Different strokes for different folks.

Believe me, if any of us really KNEW the status of the muscle market as it is today, we'd have scarfed up several of these "collector" cars with the ram air hoods and spoilers and what not already installed from the factory many moons ago when people were dumping them in the late 70s and they were cheap (relatively) to buy. I paid $1300 for a used 71 442 in 1979. That's a comparable $5900-ish in today's dollars. Because back then, you were paying about the same price for a nice ram air hood today for the entire car back then. Plus, new GM parts were plentiful at the dealer back then. It's like if you knew to buy Wal-mart and IBM stock in the 70s....

 

Yeah, for me the whole LS thing is how pathetic they performed in stock trucks, dead below 3500 rpm. I was majorly unimpressed with what GM rated them at and how they performed. The aftermarket coil covers/valve covers and no plastic intakes do look better and less offensive. Like the over done sbc, do they really have to be in everything? Do something different, please! At the same time, keeping restored cars ridiculously original down to factory paint marks on the frame is insane. Honestly Oldsmobile couldn't even put the body on the frame evenly, mine is 3/4" to the driver's side, front to back. People look at the past through rose coloured glasses, everything was far from great. There is a blip in quality in some current vehicles as of late, definitely brings on nostalgia. Like many, I find a lot of new vehicles terrible to look at. The other issues, is price. For a new Charger SO 6 pack, loaded like I would want is 70K! That is the base model with a couple of extras, 60K minimum! Trucks are 30K for a decently optioned truck up here. Problem is new, is unreasonable and restoring to concurs is also out of reach. Mine will remain an OK driver till I leave this world.

 

1972 C20 on an AWD 2005 GMC Yukon Denali XL chassis. The only reason the Chevy purists don't totally hate me is it's a C20 and no one really cares about them...

 

I did a similar thing with a 77 c20 on an 05 2500 frame. Love the dmax.

 

Caffeine!

No, it's a joke.


That's got promise.

I do want to make a 67 El Machete. 3 on the tree, no AC, base Cutlass turned into a pickup.

Joke post about everyone and their mother OAIing things. I don't see many Olds period around me. This is a response to the national craze.

What gets me with customizers is that their customizing is "clone it into a W-30." You ask them, ok why are you cloning it, and you get told back that they are customizing it to be different than black fenderwells, it's just a different color. So, you suggest blue or something so people won't be confused and they quit participating in the conversation because everyone in it knows they're just another cloner but don't have the ***** to say so so they lie and say they are "customizing" the car (into a spitting image clone.)

I've only had 4 clone ideas, and 2 of the 4 are obviously physically different, and the other two were never made. Not sure I will do any of them. I'll strap a track pack on my 67, but it won't be a W-30 about 5 different ways. (wrong rear, A/C, wrong cam, no red fenders, no chrome valve covers.)

 

Live and let live folks..

 

^^^THIS! Exactly the point I was trying to make.

 

I have a good friend who owns an '86 suburban with a diesel engine. Yes, I realize that isn't custom, but the car isn't run of the mill either. I appreciate when seeing something a little different, truly not common. And you want to see something not common take a peek at the cars on this The Jalopy Journal | Preaching the gospel of traditional hot rods and kustoms to hoodlums worldwide… The Jalopy Journal website. Lots of not so common cars. Jesse and a close friend and I went to an event in southeast Kansas which was at an old 1/4 mile dragway. There were lots and lots of six cylinder powered cars there. Granted, many of them were originally six cylinder anyways but they embraced that instead of dropping a moder V8 under the hood. So, find an original I6 powered Cutlass? Go For It!