This car was given to me by my Mom, who's owned it from new! YEP! right off the showroom floor. It started life, as a demonstrator car for "Guy Martin" Oldsmobile. When my mom took a ride in it, it went home with her!! When she moved to the high dessert, [Victorville, Ca.] in 1988, she pretty much "parked the car" and drove a Ford F-150 Pick-up for everything. In 1991 she called me and said the dessert was eating the car alive, and would I mind taking over ownership!!!! Being the gearhead in the family, she knew her baby was in good hands. Basically the car is a one repaint survivor, with performance mods, done to my liking. the car is fully numbers matching, and fully documented!! Mom was a stickler for keeping every reciept for maintenence and repairs. I even found the intact build sheet under the package deck insert!
My wife and I show the car at local car shows, and it's won several sponsorship trophys, and blue ribbons, in car cruises. If you enlarge the car show photo by clicking on it, you will see I even have the original license plates. Mom wanted something unique when she first registered her baby, so "GOT U" was born! Getting the car to Oregon, the DMV reported that the same plate was available! WHO HOO! "GOT U" rides again! Mom got a big kick out of that when I told her!
Two Months after seeing the car in pictures, restored, and winning it's first awards, Mom passed on from cancer. But not before seeing her baby, her much loved "grocery Getter", restored to It's Original glory, by her loving son!
As any Oldsmobile owner of a 455 cu.in. 442 will testify, these motors make MONSTER torque! even the low perf. 455's. I once unintentionally launched the car into a gap that opened up in tight rush hour traffic, totally smoking the tires! no preloading the torque converter, or anything. MAN! that really suprised me! and everyone around me too! the engine code,"UB" indicated the motor was a 275 hp.edition. After pumping up the engine with the "mods" indicated in my cars bio, I would guesstimate an increase of, at the very least, an extra 150hp. After the rebuild and break-in, I regeared the rear end to 3.73s. It already had positraction, and Whoa!!! that was a mistake! 3rd. gear just past the intersection?? I reinstalled the 2.73s because launching the car is NOT A PROBLEM!! These motors like to live below 5500rpm, because of the large main and rod journals! So, even if the tach. goes to 7000,[top upper red line limit on stock tach.] stock oiling systems cant keep up. I recommend a high volume oil pump like a "Mellings" unit, like I use and "Cleveite 77" berings. Another irritant I noticed was the stock tach, is too hard to view when racing! I mounted a Monster tach to the bottom of the dash, [above the center console] looking up at me with a "shift light" set at ..you guessed it, 5500rpm. All that, along with the stage 2 shift kit, B&M 2400 stall Torque Converter, and you have a LIVABLE SCREAMER!!!! Oldsmobile...Truly, like it's said, IS "the Gentleman's hotrod"
Oldsmobile club of America members... Denis & Evelyn Kinsner 1-541-840-0327
