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wesleywillis posted:That never stopped them from Killing Oldsmobile. Remember Oldsmobile? The car my father drove?
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Rhyno posted:The car my father drove? No, this was not your father's Oldsmobile, this is (was) the new generation, of Olds.
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Oct 25, 2018 17:18
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From memory, I think I can only come up with two Oldsmobile models - Delta 88 and Omega.
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Oct 25, 2018 17:21
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Cutlasses used to be p cool
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Oct 25, 2018 17:37
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GM still has too many brands. Buick could be a China only brand but that would upset it's brand equity in China so it won't happen. GMC's existence is questionable since it's the 97% same poo poo as Chevy trucks, so they could pull a Dodge/RAM easily and make GMC Trukkkkks. The brands made neat stuff in the 50s, 60s and 70s (and sorta the 80s, see T-Type/GN) but nobody has given a poo poo in a meaningful financial fashion in a long time about Pontiac or Oldsmobile. Let it die. Ford did the right thing by putting Mercury out to pasture. It was sad but it was just another pointless rebadging effort.
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Oct 25, 2018 17:40
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Has anyone ever built a project car where the accelerator is the same as an airplanes? Where you have to move the accelerator forwards and backwards. Seems like it would be pretty fun.
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Oct 25, 2018 17:48
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Dennis McClaren posted:Has anyone ever built a project car where the accelerator is the same as an airplanes? Where you have to move the accelerator forwards and backwards. Seems like it would be pretty fun. Seems like a good way to slam the brakes and slam the accelerator forward at the same time.
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Oct 25, 2018 17:51
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Well remember Olds had a lotta cool stuff... 1) First OHV V8 known as the Rocket. 2) J2 option in '57 which was the triple carb. 3) Instead of '2' on the trans indicator they would put a 'S' for Superdrive. 4) Turbo poo poo with the F85 Jetfire back in '62. Had a '72 Delta 88 as a first car. The lead sled. Sadly it only had the Rocket 350 with a 2bbl.
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Oct 25, 2018 17:52
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Dennis McClaren posted:Has anyone ever built a project car where the accelerator is the same as an airplanes? Where you have to move the accelerator forwards and backwards. Seems like it would be pretty fun. I wonder if Mercury (no the other Mercury) used that for their Mustang's throttle? It would be pretty appropriate. http://www.mercuryracing.com/mustang/
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Oct 25, 2018 17:55
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My uncle has what I consider the last real Oldsmobile. 1980 Delta 98. It's a black 2 door about 20 feet long with a tan leather interior. It's the last year for the old's rocket 350 and it has a 4bbl. I'm going to be working on it this fall so I'll get pictures. It's mega cool with white wall tires and spoked hubcaps. E: I forgot about the Aurora, that was a cool Olds. Overhead cam FWD V8. That's probably the last real one. They used to be cool experimental stuff like the Jetfire turbo. shy boy from chess club fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Oct 25, 2018 |
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Oct 25, 2018 17:56
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shy boy from chess club posted:My uncle has what I consider the last real Oldsmobile. 1980 Delta 98. It's a black 2 door about 20 feet long with a tan leather interior. It's the last year for the old's rocket 350 and it has a 4bbl. I'm going to be working on it this fall so I'll get pictures. It's mega cool with white wall tires and spoked hubcaps. Heh, that's awesome. My great aunt (who amazingly is still alive at around 86 years old) had a (I'm thinking probably a 72 or so) 98 with a 455. Green. Her sister had a 72 Pontiac Grand Prix with a 400. Man those doors were big. As a kid I thought the shifter was cool. Good times.
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Oct 25, 2018 18:04
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Entirety of my Oldsmobile experience was in the back of a custom cruiser, back in the days of "pshaw kids don't need no stupid seat belts" so me and my sisters bounced around in the huge cavern that was the rear end and somehow didn't die. It survived all the way to the late 90's and I even got to (had to) drive it a few times. Dad was a career mechanic so he took pretty good care of it but even then it was a sluggish spongy boat.
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Oct 25, 2018 18:04
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shy boy from chess club posted:My uncle has what I consider the last real Oldsmobile. 1980 Delta 98. It's a black 2 door about 20 feet long with a tan leather interior. It's the last year for the old's rocket 350 and it has a 4bbl. I'm going to be working on it this fall so I'll get pictures. It's mega cool with white wall tires and spoked hubcaps. Well the Aurora was cool, but was saddled by the Northstar. Although I think GM gave it the "baby" Northstar...which somehow is an awesome engine yet a pile of poo poo.
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Oct 25, 2018 18:05
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wesleywillis posted:Hamburg NY!! Right across the river from where I grew up! I think I have relatives that live there. We certainly have some... Interesting people here. At least you're on the hood side of the border.
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Oct 25, 2018 18:20
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Q_res posted:Buick was also like the only GM brand with a reputation for quality in the US. Thinking Pontiac should have survived over Buick simply doesn't reflect anything remotely resembling reality at the time.
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Oct 25, 2018 18:34
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shy boy from chess club posted:My uncle has what I consider the last real Oldsmobile. 1980 Delta 98. It's a black 2 door about 20 feet long with a tan leather interior. It's the last year for the old's rocket 350 and it has a 4bbl. I'm going to be working on it this fall so I'll get pictures. It's mega cool with white wall tires and spoked hubcaps. A case could be made that the 2001 4 cyl Alero was the last true Oldsmobile. It was assembled in Lansing and used the 2.4 L Twin Cam which was derived from the old Oldsmobile engineered Quad Four. Those kinda sucked though.
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Oct 25, 2018 18:54
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lol anyone else grow up in a diesel oldsmobile station wagon?
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Oct 25, 2018 18:54
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sandoz posted:lol anyone else grow up in a diesel oldsmobile station wagon? Minus the diesel, yes.
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Fornax Disaster posted:A case could be made that the 2001 4 cyl Alero was the last true Oldsmobile. It was assembled in Lansing and used the 2.4 L Twin Cam which was derived from the old Oldsmobile engineered Quad Four. I’m pretty sure the last new vehicle assembled with an Oldsmobile badge on it was an Alero. I remember a picture when they ceased production.
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Oct 25, 2018 19:09
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xzzy posted:Minus the diesel, yes. my dad did eventually have to put in a junkyard gas engine but the wagon lived on
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Oct 25, 2018 19:44
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sandoz posted:my dad did eventually have to put in a junkyard gas engine but the wagon lived on And hence the demise of my Delta 88. It was on its last legs but holy hell did they want the gasser to do swaps on the diesel and I took them up on the offer. Funny thing was many years later at some random junkyard I ran into it again. Sort of a Christine moment...one of those I should have bought a lottery ticket.
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Oct 25, 2018 19:50
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sandoz posted:my dad did eventually have to put in a junkyard gas engine but the wagon lived on Rust eventually killed ours. It got used to launch boats in salt water and the back end turned into flakes as if Thanos had snapped. At some point around 1990 dad got it painted, metallic green with chrome smoothie rims. It looked fantastic (for a station wagon).
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Oct 25, 2018 20:23
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Fornax Disaster posted:A case could be made that the 2001 4 cyl Alero was the last true Oldsmobile. It was assembled in Lansing and used the 2.4 L Twin Cam which was derived from the old Oldsmobile engineered Quad Four. Oh yea you're right but those things were enormous pieces of poo poo. The engine is ok but I remember driving those that were a couple years old when I did emissions and the interiors were falling apart and Windows and buttons wouldn't work. The saddest Oldsmobile.
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Oct 25, 2018 20:38
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tuo posted:Could have been worse Poor sprinkles thought of cars and died
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Oct 25, 2018 21:10
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 click for big. spotted by a friend of mine in Albuquerque.
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Oct 25, 2018 23:30
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Where is the terrifying part?
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BlackMK4 posted:Where is the terrifying part? The 3 seconds before death where you realize a homemade roll cage wasn't a good idea.
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Oct 25, 2018 23:43
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STR posted:Honestly pretty interesting seeing the difference in a loaded Vibe/Matrix vs GF's bare bones model Matrix. I think my favourite thing about the early run of the 1st gen matrix/vibe is that the digital odo stops at 299,999.
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Oct 25, 2018 23:50
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That Works posted:The 3 seconds before death where you realize a homemade roll cage wasn't a good idea. It is fairly clear it is a rock crawler and is used as such, I'm still not sure where the terrifying thing is unless this is just a trucks suck thing
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Oct 25, 2018 23:52
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Crustashio posted:I think my favourite thing about the early run of the 1st gen matrix/vibe is that the digital odo stops at 299,999. This is great. Hard coded?
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Oct 26, 2018 00:18
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BlackMK4 posted:It is fairly clear it is a rock crawler and is used as such, I'm still not sure where the terrifying thing is unless this is just a trucks suck thing Looks dumb, although to be fair to the guy these apparently have a real frame so it's probably not as floppy as I first assumed. I own a Ranger and a CJ-7 so I don't hate trucks, although I could take plenty of pictures of stupid mall crawlers here in town. I think Albuquerque has as many Jeeps per capita as anywhere else I've lived.
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Oct 26, 2018 00:29
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Pham Nuwen posted:
Points for creativity, although the roll cage could qualify as terrifying if it's one of those lovely homemade deals.
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Oct 26, 2018 01:43
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:This is great. Hard coded? It has to be, otherwise the max would roughly be a power of two.
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Oct 26, 2018 04:26
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drgitlin posted:Why do you care that the headlights are on? It will make the car more visible and therefore should decreased the chance of someone else not seeing it and driving into it, am dits not like having headlights on makes the car slower or less efficient. Every automatic feature (but especially lights) should have a manual override to turn it off. Someday, that light sensor or some other part of the electrical system may fail in such a way that the only way to make the lights go off is a physical switch. And you never know when you might have the President in your car and it's night and you are being chased by Russian mobsters down some dark country highway and you try to pull off the road and park in a barn to hide but they see your non-defeatable headlights shining through the rickety wooden slats and capture the President and force America to surrender all because you didn't have a manual light switch. Also, running your headlights does cause the alternator to work harder, reducing fuel economy and performance by an amount that's probably too small to measure. And running headlights all the time makes them burn out faster. Number_6 fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Oct 26, 2018 |
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Oct 26, 2018 04:47
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The manual override should not reset every time you turn the car off too.Number_6 posted:Also, running headlights all the time makes them burn out faster. I got 80,000 miles out of a car with full time DRL before one burned out, it's a total non issue.
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Oct 26, 2018 04:50
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Finger Prince posted:From memory, I think I can only come up with two Oldsmobile models - Delta 88 and Omega. Intrigue (aka Grand Prix with a much worse interior), Alero (aka Grand Am). The Aurora was a pretty nice car, but suffered from the same issues that plagued the Northstar engine family. drgitlin posted:Why do you care that the headlights are on? It will make the car more visible and therefore should decreased the chance of someone else not seeing it and driving into it, am dits not like having headlights on makes the car slower or less efficient. Mostly because, at least if I'm working and borrowing her car, I'll often have to park for a bit here and there on a slower day. It'd be nice to be able to turn off the lights without shutting the car off (and thus losing a/c, heat, and music). Having them on draws attention to the random courier parked under a tree. shy boy from chess club posted:E: I forgot about the Aurora, that was a cool Olds. Overhead cam FWD V8. That's probably the last real one. They used to be cool experimental stuff like the Jetfire turbo. It was a Cadillac Northstar 4.6 that got smaller bores, in a nutshell. Same stroke. different intake, different engine management system. The LX5 V6 is also (very) loosely based on the Northstar, and was used in V6 Auroras (Wikipedia also claims it was found in 99-02 Intrigues, but I know my mom's 99 had a 3800 in it). Though the Northstar was originally an Oldsmobile project; they started development in 1984. It was a pretty drat high tech engine for its day; I'd like to think it's the first successful commercial application of cylinder deactivation (I don't count Cadillac's early 80s V8-6-4 attempt successful), though in the Northstar's case, it turned into a 4 cylinder if it overheated (it was meant to kick in if coolant was lost, but I can attest to it kicking in after beating on one on a hot summer day in the desert - the theory being that the non-firing cylinders could be used as air cooling).
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xzzy posted:The manual override should not reset every time you turn the car off too. And I've had 15k before a DRL light burnt out so my anecdote supersedes yours. Take a look at how many GM cars are running along with just one DRL (more common is a GM car running with just one corner light, those fuckers must die every month). DiggityDoink fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Oct 26, 2018 |
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STR posted:(Wikipedia also claims it was found in 99-02 Intrigues, but I know my mom's 99 had a 3800 in it). The "Shortstar" was the up-option from the 3800.
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Oct 26, 2018 07:51
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Rather late to the 'what would I do with a Billion Dollars. But also do Dakar. But actually Paris to Dakar. Not the 2-bit Baja Rally that doesn't even go to the namesake.
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Humphreys posted:Rather late to the 'what would I do with a Billion Dollars. But also do Dakar. But actually Paris to Dakar. Not the 2-bit Baja Rally that doesn't even go to the namesake. Similarly I'd buy a bunch of Ferrari F40s and just travel the world with friends doing whatever we wanted whenever we wanted.
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