Looking at this 442 to much or good price?

[Longroof79]

If I'm not mistaken, the '83 model not only doesn't have an 8.5 rear, but it doesn't have an overdrive trans...probably a 3-spd with a lockup converter like an '83 Monte SS.

 

[oldsmobile joe]

If I'm not mistaken, the '83 model not only doesn't have an 8.5 rear, but it doesn't have an overdrive trans...probably a 3-spd with a lockup converter like an '83 Monte SS.

no, they have the 200-4r auto with overdrive. that is what the lightning rod shifter is for. but you are right about the rear axle. only came with a 7.5" rear.
joe

 

[zdeckich]

no, they have the 200-4r auto with overdrive. that is what the lightning rod shifter is for. but you are right about the rear axle. only came with a 7.5" rear.
joe

Yea has a open 7.5 ;(

 

[HAFROD]

84 was 8.5 I believe. An 83 or 84 is on my list of needed G bodys for me. Also want a 79 or 80 Hurst olds

 

[ck80]

I spent too many years up north, before moving down south... I'm of two minds on that car.

The rust belt me says that isn't bad. It also supposedly was a virginia car, which is better than the northeast.

Southern me says too many busted knuckles on that crusty underside. I bet it needs full brake and fuel lines... heck fuel system front to back.

I think it's be a cool car to put a flat clearcoat over the patina, get running reliably, and drive it as it is.

 

[UNGN]

84 was 8.5 I believe. An 83 or 84 is on my list of needed G bodys for me. Also want a 79 or 80 Hurst olds

Noted. If its a nice one will you paint the jams, too?

I was up in Maine last fall and there was a rust free '79 HO I was going to look at, but my wife came with so that was not going to happen.

If I'm buying something to swap for a paint job on a car I already own, my wife will probably let me buy it.

 

[UNGN]

Yea has a open 7.5 ;(

Go to Goodguys and then Pate. There was a rust free/complete running '84 HO at Pate last spring and cash would have talked.

 

[pagrunt]

Looks like it might be a coastal car, explains the surface rust on the hood & trunk, steering wheel. Salty sea water & air is just as bad as road salt.

 

[zdeckich]

Go to Goodguys and then Pate. There was a rust free/complete running '84 HO at Pate last spring and cash would have talked.

Ill be at both. I registered for Good guys the other day so ill be there in the Wagon. Also plan on going to pate.

 

[fleming442]

The frame doesn't look awful in the pics. It is a legit H/O, and the shifter alone is worth a G. I'm just not into restos.