anyone brave enough

[LightningVic]

to get a passenger to videotape in car a trillogy full throttle run through second gear?

[Bradley G]

Yes!

And I still haven't watched it.

[LightningVic]

Yes!

And I still haven't watched it.
SEND IT TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tallboy]

to get a passenger to videotape in car a trillogy full throttle run through second gear?

If we can hook up at one of the meets, I'll toss you my keys and you can expirience it for yourself! :burnout:

[RoyLPita]

If we can hook up at one of the meets, I'll toss you my keys and you can expirience it for yourself! :burnout:

Believe me, I've had that thrill ride before.

[STLR FN]

I gave a few people a thrill ride in the thrill ride(and a few not in the thrill ride.)
Believe me, I've had that thrill ride before.

[RoyLPita]

I gave a few people a thrill ride in the thrill ride(and a few not in the thrill ride.)

And a possible heart attack to the owner of that thrill ride. :D

[DEW34]

And a possible heart attack to the owner of that thrill ride. :D LOL i was thinking the same thing Brian :laugh:

[Bradley G]

Not afraid to take the vid, a little wary of sending copies of it.

Four grown men giggling like kids is a little hard to share.:o


SEND IT TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bradley G]

That is a generous and sincere offer Big Guy!:beer:
If we can hook up at one of the meets, I'll toss you my keys and you can expirience it for yourself! :burnout:

[the_pack_rat]

I've got a friend back in NJ ...

That once leaned out the passengers window as far as he possibly could w/o actually climbing(ok FALL) out .... as I was making a RH turn from a standstill ... so he could watch the RF tire go up in a violent smokey cry of protest.

Yes you read correctly ... the right FRONT tire(it was a 75 Toronado).

"Holy (insert expletive here) ..... I thought the (insert another expletive here) tire was gonna literally burn off the (insert yet another expletive here) rim".

And people say there is no fun to be had in a FWD car .....

:P

[ts-pa]

Yeah Eric, those Olds 425 CID were torque monsters! Forged internals if my memory serves correctly. Must have been a fun car.



I've got a friend back in NJ ...

That once leaned out the passengers window as far as he possibly could w/o actually climbing(ok FALL) out .... as I was making a RH turn from a standstill ... so he could watch the RF tire go up in a violent smokey cry of protest.

Yes you read correctly ... the right FRONT tire(it was a 75 Toronado).

"Holy (insert expletive here) ..... I thought the (insert another expletive here) tire was gonna literally burn off the (insert yet another expletive here) rim".

And people say there is no fun to be had in a FWD car .....

:P

[Mike M]

A 1975 should be a 455 not a 425...425...way old school.

[the_pack_rat]

A 1975 should be a 455 not a 425...425...way old school. Yea 455.

66-67 Toros were 425's
68-76 were 455's

For such a heavy car, with a smogger era motor having the poorest flowing heads(J) there ever were for a 455 .... it ran pretty good.

I'd take the 66-67 Toro 425(or ANY 65-67 Olds 425 for that matter) w/the switch pitch trans ... ANY day over any "J" headed 455.

The 425's never really got the hype & attention that the 455's did ..... even tho they were just as deserving. Other than lacking @ 25-35 less ft pounds of torque ... the 425 put out about the same horsepower. A free flowing exhaust - the right carb rebuild & re-curving the distributor should close the torque gap right up. Now you have the torque of the larger 455 ..... but you gain the benefit of the 425's shorter stroke(wind up the RPM's quicker). Rebuild the 425 for even more smiles per mile ....... a more modern/efficient yet still perfectly streetable cam - ported Edlebrock aluminum heads(power & weight savings) - aluminum pistons with the right rings for less resistance/easier revs - balance & blueprint etc etc. That 425 would eat & spit out the most powerful factory "W" spec 455's all day long ..... 442's(W30) - Cutlass SX's(W32) - Delta 88's(W33) & Toronados(W34).

Talking about it has me wishing I had one(& the money) to build right now.

Hmmmm .....

67 or 68 Delmont 88 + built 425 + built 200R4 + 3.73/4.10 ish type gearing =

Super Sleeper Rocket 88 Tire Fryer Extraordinaire.

Mmmmmmmmmm

Oh sorry ...

As you were.

lol

[wsmylie]

Geeze...a 425 Delmont 88, that was Old's police package platform back then as I recall....a real screamer too. A true "sleeper" to all but the trained eye. Didn't really see too many of them though.
Just came to me...Olds called that the "Apprehender Package".

[the_pack_rat]

Geeze...a 425 Delmont 88, that was Old's police package platform back then as I recall....a real screamer too. A true "sleeper" to all but the trained eye. Didn't really see too many of them though.
Just came to me...Olds called that the "Apprehender Package". Yea they did up some Delmont 88's as well as some Cutlass'es.

The 425 could be had as an option on it's own in the 67 Delmont 88 in a few different varieties ..... 2bbl low compresion - 2bbl high compression & a couple high compression 4bbl's. All 425 equipped Delmonts had a "425" badge under the Delmont 88 script on the side. See attached photo - hard to see but it's the small rectangle under the "88".

The 425 was standard on the Delta 88 - 98 & the Toro(no 425 badging on any of these, only 425 Delmont optioned cars had them. I'm sure most 67 88's put into police duty were Delmonts(1 level below a Delta on the Olds food chain like an Impala was to a Caprice). I don't believe there were too many depts that used them for police duty, or ordered as such for the general public. A Feb 68' road test I have of Police "Apprehender" Delmont ... states that only California & Missouri were using them at the time.

[wsmylie]

Thanks Pack Rat for that great photo of a clean, CHP trimmed Delmont. Especially liked the shiny black steelies with the "dog dish" caps. There was a southeast suburb of Cleveland (Solon, Ohio) that had these for a year or two back then; really the only ones I've ever seen up close. The cops there thought they were pretty quick at the time. The Delmonts were considered a little "odd ball" however, in an area where most departments were using Ford, Chevy and Mopar. Although I think another Cleveland Burb (Shaker Hgts maybe?) was using a fleet of Pontiac Catalinas and some kind of Buick sedans about that same time. I guess just about every North American marque with the exception of Caddy, Lincoln and Imperial was fielding some kinda police package back then.

[ts-pa]

Thanks for the correction. BTW, Sorry to cause the post to stray off course.:o
You can tell that we love all cars (American;) ) that go fast!