Dusted!

[Merc-O-matic]

Had the big '97 Merc GM on the road yesterday
I-20 out side of Augusta, GA.
Came up behind a slow moving convertible...
turned out to be a 1973 Olds 88, so I jumped
on it and passed him by. He didn't like it!
so he jumped on his machine and low and
behold we were neck and neck I gave it everything
I had... but he pulled away from me at 90 MPH
Sad I was dusted by an old OLDS!

"Next time it's MARAUDER time"!:mad:

[TAF]

My father had (I think) a '73 or '74 Olds 88 H/O=Hurst tuning...I think it had a 455, white, convertable...it was SWEET.

maybe it was one of those...don't feel too bad if it was...I remember that thing would MOVE!

[RCSignals]

a '73? even if it has a 455 I'd guess it isn't stock.

[jgc61sr2002]

I have my fathers 73 Olds Toronado with a 455 and 27K miles. The car is quite fast and can spin the front tires on WOT.

[RedMM]

I owned an old 66 Olds Starfire when I was a senior in high school. I bought it from a relative who bought it new. It was a totally bone stock car with 65K miles on it when I got it. That car would spin the tires as long as you wanted to! It was freakish! I could leave black marks from my house to the stop sign about 12 houses down. It would throw pieces of tire all over the rear fenders and up the back bumper and tail lights. I've had many fast and powerful cars, but this one was the peel out champion of the world!! Sadly, I sold it to a friend who totalled ot shortly after he got it. It was a 425 4bbl quadra jet carb. All those qj carbs from that vintage had the predictable lag when you floored the pedal while the HUGH back barrels opened up. Once all 4 barrels opened and started dumping in the gas, you just held on and hoped for the best!!! Wish I had kept that car!!! :burnout: :burnout:

[UAW 588]

Originally posted by Merc-O-matic

Sad I was dusted by an old OLDS!

"Next time it's MARAUDER time"!:mad:


Well guys my MARAUDER time was last night. Went out last night to pick up a deep dish pizza for me and wife and guess what happen to me. On the way back home this guy pulls up at the light next to me with a brand new Grand Prix, and then proceeds to try and race me. Well lets just say I did a little dusting of my own. It was really sad, I could barelly see him in my rear view mirror behind me. Funny how people don't know what they are running up against. Same thing happend the other day with a Monte Carlo SS ( Super Slow ), people will never learn. Told the wife when I got home and she informed me that I'm just like a child. I told her yes but a very happy and satisfied one. Laughed all the way home. HA HA HA HA !!!!!!!!!



:burnout: :rock: :banana:

[martyo]

Originally posted by UAW 588
Went out last night to pick up a deep dish pizza for me and wife ....

And you didn't get us any??? In the future, I'll take mine with sausage, Mac likes pepperoni, and Todd, well, he'll take it anyway he can get it!

[UAW 588]

Originally posted by martyo
In the future, I'll take mine with sausage


Sorry. I'll have to remember next time. But you got to remember we are dealing with Chicago Deep Dish Pizza. Hope you can handle it.:cry:

[stumpy]

Oldsmobile practically invented the great American V8. They were so far ahead of the others with respect to building high power, high torque V8 brutes that they had the pre-muscle cars to beat in the 60s. (make that the early 60s)

I had a 71 Olds cutlas convertable with a rocket 350 and I can attest to the fact that it could spin the tires longer than any car I've ever had. Simply put they're torque monsters!

[SergntMac]

Connie's? Pizzeria Uno? Or the very best deep dish there is, Lou Malnati's...

[MM03MOK]

Originally posted by SergntMac
Or the very best deep dish there is, Lou Malnati's... This place was featured on TV Food Network's special on the best pizza around the world. I hope there's a visit in my future......hint.......hint... ....hint.....

Follow That Pizza!! (http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_fw/episode/0,1976,FOOD_9966_21860,00.html )

[Agent M79]

Originally posted by SergntMac
Connie's? Pizzeria Uno? Or the very best deep dish there is, Lou Malnati's...

I had to take a trip to Chicago for some training and stayed by myself at a hotel downtown. I ordered out for a pizza and got a deep dish from Uno (I believe) and it cost about $30 (which I about died when I heard that).

I ate that pizza for 3 days! It was massive. I almost dropped it when the guy handed it to me.

I don't remember the training, I only remember that pizza.

[RCSignals]

Who cares about Oldsmobiles, when you can have Pizza! :)

[dhawke98]

LOL You guys and the pizza. There's so much good food in Chicago. Whenever we go to visit friends there, I spend a day or two eating my way around downtown, the same as I did when I was stationed there. The pizza is good, but so are the burgers at the Cheese burgah cheese burgah place, can't remember the name. It's under the tribune building.

[bozobill]

dhawke: The Billy Goat Tavern made famous by the late, great John Belushi...and those cheez-burgahs!

Bill

[jparrie]

I was in Chicago in July 02, Ate at a place downtown called Harry Cary's (spelling may be wrong) What a meal!

Had a T-bone that would cut with a fork, Garlic Potato's etc. Tab came out to a little over $100.00 for two, but it was worth every penny.

I'll be back there in 05, any suggestions for comparable places to eat?

Jim

[RCSignals]

Originally posted by stumpy
Oldsmobile practically invented the great American V8. They were so far ahead of the others with respect to building high power, high torque V8 brutes that they had the pre-muscle cars to beat in the 60s. (make that the early 60s)



i know what you are saying, but the start of the great american V8, especially for us common folk, was the Ford Flathead.

The Olds and Buick V8s were indeed good engines, and it's too bad GM eventually dropped them in favour of the cheap (cheaply built) sbc

[bozobill]

Jim,

Harry (Holy Cow!!) Carey's is at 33 W. Kinzie. At 20 W. KInzie is one of the best steakhouses in Chi Town: Keefer's. Similar price range but better steaks IMHO. Plus make sure you order the potato croquettes. Fantastic!

Bill

[67435animal]

Originally posted by RCSignals
i know what you are saying, but the start of the great american V8, especially for us common folk, was the Ford Flathead.

The Olds and Buick V8s were indeed good engines, and it's too bad GM eventually dropped them in favour of the cheap (cheaply built) sbc

I have a 67 Olds 400 in the engine bay of my 442. That engine will spin the rear (radial) tires til the tread burns off. It is one heck of a fast car.

No MM should be embarrassed to be dusted by an old Olds. They made strong cars with even stronger engines in them.

If the MM delivered Olds-like torque off the line, BFG's profits would be up and we'd all be shareholders!

Bob

[jerrym3]

As an unemployed kid in the early 60's, I had a part time job driving cars from north Jersey to Auburn, NY, for a car dealer who was 1) moving his used car lot to NY, and 2) was too cheap to rent a car hauler.

So, I would take a car home at night, leave at the crack of dawn, and take a bus home from NY all for the grand total of $15 per trip CASH!!

Since it was winter and I had to catch a particular bus from Auburn to get home in the same day, nothing, snow nor rain, could slow me down. Very reckless and dangerous.

The cream of the cars was a 1962 full sized Olds, two door hardtop (looked like a Starfire without the trim and fancy interior) with a 4 barrel carb, and very, very rare three on the column.

At the time, my personal car was a 57 Chev Bel Air, 283 powerpack, Hurst three speed with 4:11 gears.

By seat of the pants, that Olds would have left my Chev in the dust. Car had an unbelievable sound as it wound up, but it was just about impossible to speed/power shift it; terrible linkage..

Oldsmobiles, back in those days, could run. Friend of mine still has a stored 73/74 Hurst Olds, 455/HO, bought new, with (I'm guessing) a few thousand miles on it.

Oldsmobile was once a very proud name, too proud to be killed.

[bryanknie]

At 17 years old I had a Olds 98 2 door with a Rocket 455, I could also burn the tires off of it. I could eat 350 Camaros alive once I was moving 10 mph.

[TAF]

Originally posted by jerrym3
Friend of mine still has a stored 73/74 Hurst Olds, 455/HO, bought new, with (I'm guessing) a few thousand miles on it.


THAT'S^^^what my dad had...would love to see a pic if possible.

[UAW 588]

Originally posted by jparrie


Had a T-bone that would cut with a fork, Garlic Potato's etc. Tab came out to a little over $100.00 for two, but it was worth every penny.

I'll be back there in 05, any suggestions for comparable places to eat?

Jim

If you like steak you have to go to Gibson's Steak House. Worth ever penny. Me and the wife went for our anniversary and got stuffed. I had her drive home I was so bloated; had to sit with my pants unbuttoned and my fly undone I ate so much. Gibsons is located at 1028 North Rush Street, corner of Bellevue and Rush. Happy eating.:beer:

[chapel1]

Jim, Gibson's is awsome make sure you get a table by the windows(patio)not as crowed.They bring out a plate of steaks so you have an idea how big they are.My wife ordered a 20oz lobster tail for $60.00 it was huge!She had a hard time eating half of it and the deserts are outstanding too.