1984 Olds Cutlas Factory Drag Car?

[John Brown]

Aluminum hoods and trunk lids were actually quite common. No vin tag cars were sometimes given to schools for use in shop classes. Without proof of where it came from, it's pretty hard to tell.

[tom406]

I actually do remember reading about no-VIN Cutlasses sold to racers in the late 80s, here’s some more chat. I think they were more complete than body-in-whites, but not complete or street legal or registerable.

https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...ag-car-164838/

I think the first car in this video is one of them as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC3IweOk2fo

[R68GTO]

Thanks for the thread link Tom. Very interesting that in that thread they mention that car had a 1988 front end on it. My friends car is the same....1984 main body with a 1987 front end. I'll ask him if his has a similar sticker in the trunk.
BTW, the Cutlass in the video looks just like my friends.

[83hurstguy]

Olds provided quite a few of them to racers back in the 80s, and there were a handful of them still racing in stock eliminator/super stock a few years ago. You likely won't be able to find any factory records on what was provided. Another Olds forum that had a bunch of posts about them ~10 years ago is gone.

It's probably worth a post on classracer.com asking about them. The racing community tends to have a pretty good insight on this stuff. Names that come to mind are Jerry Ryan and Alan Warman, though Alan passed away a few years ago.