Turbo Rocket-Oldsmobile COPO?

[olredalert]

----Greg,,,There is one other Jetfire out there with less than 10,000 miles. Turquoise with a white gut, auto. I owned it way back in 79/80 time period. Should have kept it but had house payments back then. They are great little cars and yours hs turned out fantastic. Congrats!!!!......Bill S

[69SSZL1]

Oldsmobile only made these 2 years, 1962-63, a few thousand were made. They were very expensive, base price was $3,048.00. In 1965, Oldsmobile offered to remove the Turbo if you did not want it. People were not re-filling the Turbo Rocket Fluid tank (<span style="font-style: italic">Turbo Rocket Fluid</span> available at your <span style="font-style: italic">Oldsmobile</span> dealer) and performance would suffer. The fluid is just methanol and distilled water, and is injected into the air stream after the carb to stop detonation (engine is 10.25:1 compression, boost is 5-7 psi). When the fluid runs out, the Turbo waste gate opens to prevent engine damage, so you lost your extra power. There is no Turbo lag due to this design. All detonation control was done mechanically. The more boost, the more fluid injected. The methanol added a little extra kick.
After the Turbos were removed, the cars would change hands, and the history was lost and forgotten. Many were rusted out, crushed, and lost as people did not know they were anything special. Now only a handfull exist.
Jetfire Commercial

[olredalert]

----Back in the day everyone that knew anything about these rare little cars called the methanol/water mix &quot;Moose Milk&quot; as it was sort of milky in the GM bottle, I guess.......Bill S

[Stefano]

Kool Car.

[69SSZL1]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: black69</div><div class="ubbcode-body">That is one amazing ride. Outside of the obvious rarity of it, is that power bucket factory? I had a 65 chevelle convert with power buckets, and they only made <span style="font-style: italic">20</span> of those power buckets on that car, so had to ask. </div></div>

Power seat was an option, but was added by the original owner. He said he found a complete assembly in a junk yard back in the day. I have been in contact with him and he has told me a lot about the car. He was taking his 1957 Buick to the dealer to fix a steering leak and saw this car in the showroom that had just arrived. He bought it right off the showroom floor. He owned it from 1962-2003. He took it to the dealer in 1965 and they removed the Turbo and put on a 4bbl. He kept the Turbo stuff.

[69SSZL1]

Turbo is not really as complex as it looks, carb is a Rochester model RC, side draft, large bore, single barrel. The methanol injector valve is right behind the fuel filter bowl. The waste gate is safety wired with a lead seal to prevent tampering. People were known to wedge it closed to bring in more boost.

[The Dude]

Explain the process of how they took a convertible body and welded on a Buick roof. It doesnt make sense to me, but I dont know much about these cars. What I do know is GM quarter panels extend to the top of the C pillar with roof skins welded over the inner roof structure. Everything was welded together on a jig. Why would Olds weld together a complete vert body THEN add a roof? Id think Fisher body already had the capacity to build the car, so why was it removed from the regular line to add a roof? Im just trying to understand the process, thanks.

[earntaz]

Are there any performance fiqures? 1/4 mile, top end, etc. ? TAZ

[69SSZL1]

Good question.
The 1962-63 GM Y body quarter panels did not go into the roof at all. You can see the roof seam extend below the top on the quarter panel when you look in the trunk. That is the purpose of the chrome molding along the bottom of the roof on all Skylarks, Cutlass, etc GM Y bodies from those years, is to hide the seam.
It would make sense that it was pulled off the Fisher assembly line, since Fisher did the bodies. The body number for these cars is 3147 is on the trim tag.

[The Dude]

Cool. Know something now that I didnt yesterday. Is much known in the differences in assembly from Southgate to Lansing? Southgate made Buick Skylarks so Id guess they had the capacity to build the Jetfire better than Lansing, which didnt build Skylarks.