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jkuch77

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Hi all! I just purchased a 1983 Hurst/Olds a couple months ago. The body is in great shape, engine is very clean, transmission seems to be fine, but it seems it is missing some things under the hood. I plan on getting everything back to stock. When I was a teenager I had a 1983 Cutlass Supreme w/ 3.8L V6. I loved that car, but being young and stupid I let me friend drive it one day and he totaled it. Ever since them I wanted to get my car back. I was searching the interwebs for a 1983 Cutlass and saw the Hust/Olds and immediately wanted it. So I drove to South Dakota to pick it up and drove it all the way back to PA. Now it is sitting in my Garage for the winter months and I'm working on starting to get it back to stock under the hold and fixing a few issues. Starting by rebuilding the carburetor as there are various issues with gasoline smell, hard cold start, bad TPS, etc. When looking at the car closer I found pretty much all vacuum lines were missing and ports on carb plugged off. Also speedometer not accurate at all, bigger tires are on it than should be, dual exhaust was taken down to single, missing converter dust shield, doesn't have the dual snorkel air cleaner and all cruise control components are missing except for the servo. May need some help from you all to get this thing back to the way it is supposed to be. I purchased a chassis service manual and electrical troubleshooting manual also to help me out identifying parts, etc. from the suggestions on here. I attached some pics.
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TURNA

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Very nice welcome to the site
 
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Longroof79

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Welcome aboard! Thanks for sharing the pics and giving us a little history about your fine Hurst/ Olds.
Sweeet! I'm sure driving it home from South Dakota to Pa. was a cool experience.
 

jkuch77

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Oct 27, 2019
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Welcome aboard! Thanks for sharing the pics and giving us a little history about your fine Hurst/ Olds.
Sweeet! I'm sure driving it home from South Dakota to Pa. was a cool experience.

Thanks! Yes, it was a great experience!
 

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CONGRATULATIONS!! BEAUTIFUL car and great story too!!
 
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88AZSS

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Welcome from AZ. Always was a fan of those, especially with the Lightning Rods.
 
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