well, i am new to this site and old cars....So i thought i would show off my first classic in my first post here. hope i am doing this right. I have spent quite a few years on snowmobile forums and and riding the great state of michigan. but the wife and kids wanted me home more (in the garage at least). it started with a simple tun up and now All i have left to do (to get it running) is get this thing timed right. I bought the car back in august. It was from northern california and has the original protecto plate and dealership paper work. I have put new ignition,water pump,powersteering pump, timeing chain/cover, fuel pump,edelbrock intake,holley street avenger 670, pertronics ignition/coil, stone shield grills, paint.....this is a addictive little hobbie! let me know what you think.

P.S. its a solid driver, the 442 stuff is for fun...

 

Nice car and you are fortunate to have all the original paperwork and P-o-p. It gives you some history of the car that most of us Olds owners don't have from back that far. This is a great site, especially if any problems develop as you can pick the brains of some of the best mechanics and Olds detail people that are here. I know it's helped me a lot! Welcome aboard!
Randy C.

 

NICE... welcome to the site

 

Welcome to the site! Yes, good looking car!! John

 

Hi welcome to the site. Cool car.

 

nice looking ride...welcome

 

Welcome aboard

Nice ride.

Would you ming coming down and cleaning up my garage? Yours is way to neat.

 

Welcome to CO.

 

Welcome, I moved to NC from Novi 8 years ago, Borned and raised in Detroit, Use to spend every weekend in Houghton Lake snowmobiling. Till the body got older and didn't like the cold as much. Do miss the snow at times, but here, I can drive my Olds all year long.

 

Very nice ride! Welcome to CO!

 

Welcome to our site!! Very nice Olds... the hobby is very addictive!! It's soooo cool that you have the original paperwork!

 

Thanks for the welcome! The car was a little dusty in the pics now that i look at them. I plan on having the rearend redone. What gear set would be fun to drive and still get 9 miles to the gallon or more lol? I am not sure what it has in it right now, but the car is faster between 45 and 80 then it in 0-45mph. It is not a posi.

 

you can see the project in the back ground i gave up on. Who said german engineering was good?

 

Nice ride highlander hey were did you get the grills to repace the screen on top of firewall

 

"Nice ride highlander hey were did you get the grills to repace the screen on top of firewall"

I got them at year one. They are for a 1972 chevelle. but they fit cutlass and tempest ect. any A body

 

Nice ride, you can come clean my garage too

 

What is that thing?

 

You win the prize

 

Someone had to say it

 

bingo...give that man a prize....Want a thing? lol

 

well, got it timed right, cant wait to go for a ride. It sounds goooood. still a little nasty around here to go for a rip. It should be a little more fun: new edelbrock intake(liking the electric choke!), holley street avenger 670, new electric ignition, headers, flowmasters. it was a two barrel stock exhuast with points. Sunday should be in the 50's and sunny so mabey then.........

 

hope the weather holds so you can get it out. nothing like a ride in the Olds to make you feel good about life

 

Nice car...welcome, from another new guy on this forum.

 

hello ,

welcome to the forum great car love the 442 's

belgium greetz

marc

 

Yep that looks like a nice car!! I am new here too but I cannot figure out how to post/upload pics yet, I was going to ask about the grilles also as I need them for my '71 "S".
I moved to Ohio from Ypsilanti about 12 yrs. ago, I miss the snow toys as well!!
Welcome to the site!!

 

Great looking ride. Welcome to the site. Enjoy.

 

I got those grills at brothers automotive parts. They are a very nice repo part. Thanks for the compliment's Let me know if i can help with any questions as i might have already been-there-done-that with my car.

 

Ok, here goes, when I got my Olds, the headliner had been replaced, but there was only one shoulder belt on the pass. side mounted to the roof with the clips that hold the belt when not in use, but there is no buckle.
I have been looking for the buckles on-line, and I have found the other shoulder belt, but no luck with the buckle ends...yet.
Could you tell me where the buckle end mounts in the car? I don't know if it mounts along with the lap belt buckle or not...and since I do not have the buckle ends, I do not know how the lap belt and the shoulder belt fit on the occupant of the car!!
I guess that you could wear them separately, one OR the other, since the shoulder belt end is a little larger than the seat belt end, it has to be a separate buckle as both will not fit into the seat belt buckle!!
I think that I have confused my self!! If you figure it all out let me know...Thanks

 

Welcome to the site, love that grill!

 

I'll have to go out and look, i dont wear seat belts ever. So i ill get back to you on that!

 

I finnally got some seat time in the car. First i am lost a little on the upper belt buckel as well, not sure where to plug it in either. Now, the car "ran" much better. smother, responsive ect. I will say i thought it would have gotten quicker though. I need some advise on what to do to perform better. It is a dog out of the hole!. I am sure that a rear ent gear change would help, but is that the solution? the car just barly will peel them out. The compression is up near where it should be carb is tuned pretty good, ect. Let me hear what you you guy think i should do next as i would like a little more fun factor out of this car. It turns heads and sounds great!

 

The lap belt and the shoulder belt are separate, they have their own buckles in which to clip.

 

What tranny do you have? A small stall converter will help things and a set of gears .
I have a th 350 with a large tank converter from a caddy that was cheap and has a 2000
stall i it .

 

i have the stock th350 trans.

 

I know your feeling highlander, my 71 is slow off the line also. once it is rolling it moves pretty good, I think the biggest thing is the rear ratio, I havn't got under mine to get the numbers off the housing yet, but I'm sure it a 2 something, on the highway, at 65 it is only turning 2000 rpms, and around here most of the roads are 55 and up so I anin't going to change it. Plus I am running 255/35ZR/20 tires. The lap and the shoulder belts do have their own buckles as 1969W3155 stated.

 

i am thing 3:42, little bit best of both worlds maybe have a stall coverter change aswell. money provided that is