Motion Oldsmobiles

[Fhakya]

Interesting you bring that up..hehe. I'm guessing I'm kind of a 'pup' here at 28. But, I had a '69 Olds Toronado (courtesy of grandma) for a winter car my 2nd and 3rd year of college. Being a die hard gear head, I looked up the specs on the motor of my beast and found that the engine was strikingly similar to the W-30 of the same year (cam profile etc.). It did have a forged crank and would turn some serious smoke from the front tires from a stop sign.....God...the looks on the peoples faces! This particular car had such a serious case of cancer that you could see through the trunk (from outside the car) and a radiator that could've aided the hoover dam in production. But be damned If I could get it stuck in a MN winter! I got it high-centered one time but that was on a huge snow drift in S. St. Paul on a dare.....I thought I could clear it (70 series tires measuring at darn near 29"). Much to my stupidity, I let it slip out of my hands to some towing company when I didn't have the funds to move it (college) when it finally died (cooling sys, not engine).
Uggh! ...type 'C' heads!

-Mark