63 Buick Wildcat 401 nail head

[sprchvy]

Envision this....I am 16 and bustin tires at Midlothian Firestone. A regular customer brings by a red Wildcat with the dual quad "Super wildcat 401" for an oil change . To make a long story short, one test drive and one driveshaft later I was out about about a month's pay...very expensive oil change indeed. Great old memory.

[mockingbird812]

Better a driveshaft than an engine or a tranny or a rearend............ you got off "cheap" AND you have a neat story.

[Belair62]

I had a Super Wildcat 65 Riv in 1874..it was a 425 CI engineand I later found out it was one of a handful of non GS 2/4 Rivs...called an A8 car...those engines had shaft mounted aluminum rockers with a steel pad pressed into the valve tip end....I replaced quite a few of those crappy rockers when I hammered the valve end and ruined the steel insert...I just MAY have over revved it a few times....it was so cool though.

[SamLBInj]

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I had a Super Wildcat 65 Riv in 1874..

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1874? Sounds like your talking bout a roost with a real wild 65 year old broad back in the day.....You really are an old fart

[Belair62]

I really need to get some glasses !!

[JoeG]

Bob--Isn't that the car Sitting Bull used in the Battle of the Little Big Horn---Or was that a 1876 Riviera---

[Mr70]

That was really weak Joe.