Funny how the non-air '68's are harder to find now compaired to the a/c cars! Sorry, I am having to wipe drool off the keyboard! p
Nice car. I think more W46 A/C cars survived than the W45 non A/C cars. The W45's were pretty brutal and probably ragged out earlier in life. Nice to see one that's correct even down to the right brushed stainless trim rings (One year only) and argent silver painted openings in the wheels rather than the snap on bezels from 69 and newer. Thin strip G70 x 14's also are correct. I ran them on my Ramrod when my original radials were recalled.
Having sellers remorse...... Whew, that one is nicely done. I'm realizing even more that my car was pretty cool because, 1) It was not (and still is not) restored. 2) It is a non-A/C car. 3) It has the original engine. 4) Even though it still needed stuff, and the engine had been pulled out twice by others (with a hack job done to the wiring) it was still fun to race. 5) It has manual steering. 6) It was perhaps the only 68 Hurst to compete at the Pure Stocks. 7) Thank GOD I sold the car to my best friend! Can anyone confirm #6 above for me? Yep, I tried to paint the wheel openings of my 14x6 SSIIs by hand; a rush job that looks like a 3rd grader did it. Plus, the shade of gray I used is a shade too dark. Oh, well. My friend actually likes the wheels a little darker. It goes better with the faded and mis-matched paint! After seeing a different post about a F.A.S.T. class Olds, or lack thereof, it is something I considered doing with mine - but only after I maxed out in Purestock, which would have been 12.90s at 108. I was far from there - only 100 HP or so!
I feel for you dude..................now that I'm here in the left coast.................I don't seem to see any Oldsmobiles See my post elsewhere here in the "Other Guys" section..............
Erwin, So you finally left Edison eh? You're going to miss the first ever east coast FAST style race coming up on Nov.13th at E-Town. How do you like it in CA so far?
Thanks for asking Mike...............the people here on hte left coast are sure different Defintely not what I'm used to on the right coast, but other than that..............I'm settling in nicely.................its starting to get cold here...................a whole bone chilling 60 degrees ou:
Joe Z You had a 68 h/o at the purestock event?. I didn,t know that there was ever one there. What year? and how did run? Thants Noel
Seems to me there was another one there back in the late 90's also. I saw a pic of it in the staging lanes. Had to be before 99 as it was before we started running the Ramrod.
Looking through my archives :laugh: I see in the Feb/March 97 issue of MCR there is an article on the 96 PSMDR. There is was a 1968 H/O owned by a Joe Z. the ran a 1970 COPO Nova. Was that you Joe Z ? :Brow:
Yep! Yes, That would be me. I drove the car to both the 96 and 97 pure-stock events. In 96 I raced Jim Johnson with that dang LT1 Nova (I'm sick of Novas, even though the one I raced was 1 of 2 COPO LT1s built for Canada). I pushed the race to a 3rd round but he beat me on top end. 13.80s I think. 96 was not well attended due to nasty weather covering most of the eastern half of the country. I think there were under 30 cars! In 97 I raced a guy from OH with a high optioned 71 GS455 convertible. I won 2 out of 2, but it really wasn't fair. He ran great with the weight of car he had; I was in the 13.90s or 14.0s. MPH varied from 97 to just under 100 - or maybe I hit 100 once. Lots of reasons why the car didn't run better. In 2002 I trailered. It sounds like that I have been the only one! One would think with all of the H/O cars in the midwest that a few more 68s would turn up? o No: If the car was set up right, a I think a H/O should turn a similar time to what a test car did with headers and cheater slicks back in the day (Car Craft, summer of 68'.) The test car turned 12.97 at 108, on a rainy day at Milan. I would have taken that! Back to Novas - the ubiquitous car of bracket racing!
If memory serves, there was also a pesky F85 W-31, driven by some guy named Marks uzzled: , that was going 13.0's on that same rainy day. Just a touch under the H/O, but faster than the 4-4-2 that was there. :Brow: :beer
And the engine in the W31 was? ___ and the legal NHRA class was? ____ And the engine in the 4-4-2 was? __ and the legal NHRA class was? ____ And the engine in the Hurst was? ___ and the legal NHRA class was? ____ I rest my case. These cars were maxed out by the best. Believe me, they didn't leave anything on the table. Case: Weren't you just a preemptive sperm then?
I've been called a lot of things in my life .... some more glamorous than others .... but a preemptive sperm has to rank right up there ......... :shock:
