I am very proud of my engine compartments - while hardly perfect, very presentable, and you guys and gals know they don't just roll out of bed looking like that - it takes work!

Let's see some of yours

88 when I got her - not too bad

88 now



Toronado when I got her

Toronado now

wagon when I got her (so so sad)

wagon now (much happier)

 

Here's my 3-fitty engine in it's youth.
Bored 30 over now it's something bigger in actuality.
I guess it needs a few more parts to be an underhood shot, and an under the hood location.

When I find my finished engine pic file I'll be bach.

 

man that's clean just you wait!

 

Before

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After

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TK wow what a show off I love it - did you change that car from an auto to a stick? how in the world do you do that???

 

I was hoping I had a straight on shot somewhere--could have answered Sandy's question in another thread about the radiator cap stripe decal at the same time.

 

Someone changed it to a 389 Pontiac with automatic trans, topped off with a 65 Chevelle console and shifter. Only thing Olds was the body. I put it back the way Olds built it.

 

Quick question on this. Isn't that the wrong sticker on the air cleaner on both your '75 88 and the '76 wagon? I think that Olds stopped putting "Rocket" on the air cleaner decal after 1973 or 1974. My '75 Delta 88 convertible had the original sticker on it when I got it, and it just said "Oldsmobile 455" with the "455" below the word "Oldsmobile."

I think if I look closely at the air cleaner decal in your "88 when I got her" photo, it's faded, but it looks like it just said "Oldsmobile 455".


Your "Toronado now" photo has the correct sticker for the other two cars, but not for the Toronado? The "Toronado when I got her" photo has the Toronado-trademark blue sticker. Why didn't you put the same sticker back on it?

I know that people like to see the word "Rocket" on their Olds engines, but to be completely correct, the word should not be there on these particular cars!

 

I like the rockets, yes it's wrong but I had to do it, and the Toronado blue sticker bothered me because it clashed with the aqua motor paint. I know, I have issues, and I am dealing with them the best I can.

The stickers can also be reversed.

Funny, no OCA score sheet ever mentioned any of this

 

I knew it. Nothing gets past me, except nearly everything!

This is funny but not surprising. Nobody can know everything about a car and what it should exactly look like. And there's nothing more natural and correct-looking than that the word "Rocket" on the engine of an Oldsmobile. I've helped in judging at the Mid-Ohio chapter show back about 10 years ago, and you'll get jumped all over if you have the wrong hose clamps, because everybody knows what those should look like.

 

I should have learned my lesson years ago when I put power windows in the 74 Salon. I'm better, nothing gets cut anymore (well almost nothing) everything can be undone.

But I have to laugh at the scoresheets, comparing year to year.

A little inconsistent (I judged 1 year - never again) and @ this point, show only is the way I am going.

I have breezed through not only OCA shows but AACA and no one has ever mentioned this





doing everything I can not to use these as CHMSL or whatever they're called

 

I guess Sandy is outside with the lighting people and hair and makeup getting the 72 ready - oh! it's ready!!

I don't know, looks a lot like a brochure pic if ya ask me

 

Nice engines but I dont think were on the same page!!!!!!

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Jeffrey..... you have to give me time!! I had to see what pics I had on photobucket already!

Before Bluevista and Redgoat got their hands on her

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And After

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Isn't she just beautiful!!!!

 

I think I'm gonna have Don paint the core support and all those bolts! It will look much better.

Wow BigJerr.... That is a fancy looking engine! I like the color. I also like that Rocket on the alternator! Did it come on there, or is it a decal??

 

wow Sandy are you sure that was the right before picture??? It looks like Allen spent time gilding the lilly if you ask me - seems his time would have been better spent on some charity case that needed help - yours looked good to start with (now wait where are my glasses - oh! now I see

I kinda miss the red hoses - like from the yard

don't you???

very nice very very nice

$%^&*

 

hey sandy I thought you were gonna get a new 710 cap? You could at least paint it as now it sticks out.

 

heres mine. not stock bye any means but i like it.

 

wow that's nice highlander

 

wow, a lot of nicely detailed engines there. heres my before and after, i got to admit i like the brake drum over the carb pic! can you see the mustard bottle where the washer bottle should be?


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Stan that is beautiful! Mustard, Optikleen, same difference

 

Yes, I do miss her red hoses, LOL!! I don't want a new filler cap, but I would like to shine this one up some. I just don't know what to use on it. It's original and supposed to look kind of old. Jeffrey's still looks kind of old on the 88 pic.... I like that!

 

WOW Stan... that is beautiful! And your hood hinges match too! Very shiny!!!

 

I think that's called bling now dear

 

Ooops.... my age is showing! I like that kind of bling!!

 

perhaps it's time for a word-of-the-day email set yourself up here

 

our cars seem to clean up pretty good for their age, how come most of us dont???

 

I look great in the right light (dim)

 

They all look so good you could almost hear them runing. WoW--

 

Very nice shots from beautyful engines...

Here are some shots from my 71 supreme ...

Torsten

 

Very beautiful, Torsten!!

 

wow Torsten very cool

 

very nice torsten, can the cad colour on your brake booster be duplicated? or is yours just new? i like the virtual hood pic

 

Thanks for the compliments, i just can throw it back!!!!

You all have beautyful cars!!!!

The brake booster color was some simply rust prevent in gold... thats it

I like that clear hood picture, too....
Sean (blukangoo) did it with a tripod and some skillz on his photoshop...

Thanks again

Torsten

 

70 Cutlass

 

 

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Wow 442garage,

that is some sweet looking engine compartment!!!!
Awesome

 

Thank you very much! cutlasssupreme71, a lot of new people on the board, so it's good to bring out the pictures, every once in a while.

Les

 

talk about bling that is sick