Craigslist 83' Hurst Olds?

[565bbchevy]

This is a nice car but he is asking $30,000 and says he has $48,000 invested and also states it is a southern car with 18,000 miles yet he somehow spent $20,000 on a full exterior restoration?
He says he has receipts so I am guessing most of them are for labor.
http://detroit.craigslist.org/mcb/cto/5423295225.html

 

[1bad79]

30000.00 grand for a hacked up olds with a smallblock chevy

 

[Texas82GP]

What a shame. He ruined it. If it's not black and silver with the full sticker package it's not an 83 H/O. That's the car that made me a G-Body lover. My step-dad had one that was nearly new when he got with my mom. I thought that was the coolest car. It was what I really wanted when I bought my GP. I had passed on a nice survivor car because I didn't want a 307 or an automatic but didn't have the heart to buy a nice clean survivor and cut it up. That's just a nice custom Cutlass which I can dig but it's no H/O without the paint and the decals IMO.

 

[MrSony]

Yeah he destroyed it. Just another cutlass with a SBC. That's like those idiots who take a perfectly good GN or murder out their regal and stab in a v8 and demand 20k+ for it. It's not a GN if it has a V8, and it's not an H/O without the decals. Engine isn't as important with the H/Os imo. As long as it's oldsmobile powered.

 

[565bbchevy]

It's not a SBC in there I think it might be a Pontiac 400.

 

[MrSony]

It's not a SBC in there I think it might be a Pontiac 400.

It says 400 big block, but that doesn't make any sense since both the Chevy 400 (not a very good engine imo. Decent, but not the best SBC) AND the Pontiac 400 are small blocks.So I think this guy is just an idiot in general who has no real idea what he did. Prolly just slapped down a check and said "make it look cool".

 

[565bbchevy]

It says 400 big block, but that doesn't make any sense since both the Chevy 400 (not a very good engine imo. Decent, but not the best SBC) AND the Pontiac 400 are small blocks.So I think this guy is just an idiot in general who has no real idea what he did. Prolly just slapped down a check and said "make it look cool".

Pontiac 400 would be considered a big block ever since the introduction of the 301 which would be considered the small block and is not interchangeable with a 350,400 or 455.

 

[MrSony]

I can't really tell from that angle and that just being the one picture. And to be fair, he does specifically say it's not a stock H/O. As if one couldn't tell.

 

[MrSony]

Pontiac 400 would be considered a big block ever since the introduction of the 301 which would be considered the small block and is not interchangeable with a 350,400 or 455.

The 301 is a little oddball for sure, but in a traditional sense, pontiac never really made a physically big big block ala Chevy. They for the most part had nearly the saem outer dimensions. Pontiac made engines big on the inside with big bore and/or stroke.
http://www.pontiacengines.com/Bigblock.htm

 

[565bbchevy]

No argument there they became big blocks by default not by design and I think the 301 is physically still the same size externally.