The Olds Polycast wheel - a.k.a. the Super Stock IV. I think they look great! I've attached a picture. Here's a link: http://oldsjunction.classicoldsmobile.com/ssiv.html Dave - just what did some of those cop cars have? Coming back from Martin, I got fed up with a Nissan Murano and an Infinity FX45 tailing me. The right lane was open (this is perhaps the 2nd time in my life I passed cars at this speed) and got my 9C1 up to 131 on I94. Battery is dying in the laptop - gotta go!
We'll let you flip yours over too so it will be fair....:bla: "More fun than a mow mow convention on a Saturday night!".....:bglasses: :laugh:
Joe Z, yep, those are the wheels I was thinking of. I think they look pretty cool. Reading the write up in your Olds link, it looks like a supplier called "Motor Wheel" produced the wheel for Olds in 71-72. Based on the wheel's polycast construction, Motor Wheel must have been the GM supplier, and they probably did the 71-76 Pontiac Honeycomb rims as well. Unfortunately, the Olds and Pontiac "polycast" rims are not aluminum or magnesium, so they are heavy. In fact, the 71-76 Pontiac Honeycomb wheels are the heaviest wheel ever hung on a Pontiac (over 45 lbs each).
Good ol' Bud. Bud doesn't need to apologize for not being politically correct or for speaking in "everyday" language... even though everyday language back then may, or may not, necessarily be "cool" today. He calls the GTX the "gittix". Why not talk in a manner that you would talk to your buddies while hosting a tv show? Maybe it is cool. It's different than what you'd hear on tv today. That's what makes it cool. It's not sterilized for our consumption. Reminds me of the Mikes Hard Lemonade commercials... "We Don't Do Soy". Don't be afraid to be who you are. Stand up for what you want to be. The effeminate guy with the "double caffe soy lemonade" can be who he is... just do it somewhere else. Live and let live, but don't forget to live, dammit. This is why I'd like to see the new show on Speed with the guy who drives the 100 cars "you must drive" or whatever the title is... "look ma, I'm a yuppie!", he says in one of the trailers for the show while driving a car that is defininetly not his style. Good stuff. I wanna hear what this guy has to say about the rest of them...
Check out the "J-turn" in the AMX segment! When was the last time you saw that as part of a new car test? LOL, then they do a close-up describing the tires... and they have the sidewalls all scuffed up from the J-turn! Pure Genius!
:laugh: "Ring the Bell, Kasimoto!" ...then they do a clip with some off-roading in the AMX. After watching this, I'm going right out and getting a restored AMX and TOTALY BEAT THE S#!T OUT OF IT!!! It sure looks like that's what it was made for! :grin: :grin: Honestly, that looks like fun.
I think all Pure Stock racers should be required to talk like Bud Lindemann during their Pure Stock events.
I'm not up to speed on what the cop cars had that could be bought, know there were two distinct versions, a quick pursuit car and a high speed one that sounds like your 9C1. The ones loaned to the Lansing police force and Ingham County Sheriff's could have about anything Olds had in them. Not all were bonzai high performance ones, but some sure were. They used them as test beds for any one of many things that maybe they didn't want the other divisions to know about. There was tremendous competition between the car divisions and central office on emissions development. Great way to get some quick miles. Even in modern times, Ford used fleets (mostly out West) to test and develop just about any and everything. Heat protection and high temp durability were very high on the list. The ones in the Engineering garage that I saw the most was in 1966 when I was in that building (66). Tripowers, Weber setups, all kinds of strange stuff under the hoods of plain Jane F85/base Cutlass sedans. All I saw was A bodies then. Don't recall seeing any A body cop cars from 68 on, all B bodies. I bought a copy of a magazine article that kinda made you think there were 400 cube A body 4 door cop cars back then, but once again, I think that was marketing hype. Article came out at the end of the model year, so if they planned to do that, why not use the latest model? I think it was an engineering mule. The B bodies were awesome. I never got a chance to look under the hoods, but numerous times saw one making a lap of Townsend and Olds Ave in a very big hurry with an engineer driving, not a cop. One thing for sure, if one's after you, stop. You can't get away even if he doesn't use his radio. Lots of times, they just laughed and let us go with a warning. Generating funds to meet budgets by writing traffic tickets is a recent phenomenon.
Just added tests of a 1971 AMC Javelin SST 401 and a 1971 Dodge Charger SE 440. Never knew that you could get optional headlight washers on the Charger. uzzled: Javelin : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u_8tTV_J2E Charger : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSx4jqVIJlo Mike
There's nothing "cool" about the Bud or the show. I feel like I'm watching John Wayne talk about cars . . . what a snoozer! And that recording in the background? I can only suspect they went into some Otis elevator at the GM Building, taped some music, and played it on the show. Then the writers tried to come up with some metaphors to describe how the massive torque of these cars made them feel . . . surprised they didn't try the "stuck the dollar bill on the dashboard and tried to grab it on a bonzai run" cliche! By 1971, the youth movement had already picked up speed and was on cruise control, but the people producing the show were still a bunch of squares, Daddy-O.p
That's what makes it cool... we're all here for the love of Buicks, aren't we? How many young kids back in the day thought driving a Buick was cool? Probably not many. What are we celebrating when we triumph the Centurion and the Duece and a Quarter... or the Riviera. I imagine Bud would have drove a Buick on his way to work. We should embrace the quirky nature of Bud and the loose/finicky definition/nature of cool. That's what we are all here for, right? The general public doesn't necessarily agree with us, right? I had a couple of punks on skateboards tell me my Boattail was cool the other day... To be honest, I didn't think there was anything cool about Boattails when I was a kid in the 70s. They were just kinda wierd. Now, I think the brash and quirky styling is what makes it cool. You'd better agree with me, dammit. (insert smilie with a shaking fist here)
I don't reall care what is or isn't cool - I just like the cars, and it's nice to see an original road test on video. What is apparent, however, is how the coolness of the cars don't match the commentary, which sounds so dated that it reminds me that my parents used to go to Pat Boone concerts when they were courting. Now that's uncool! I get the sense that you feel uncool these days?
I get the sense that you feel uncool these days? weird. i get the sense that some busybody is missing a perfectly good opportunity to whine about copyright violators. ain't it cool?
Oh, Bob, welcome to the Pure Stock room. You'll find a nice bunch of Brand X people here who run the living piss out of their cars yet get trophies for being the nicest cars in the show. Ladies and Gentleman, Bob's from Florida, but we know that some PS participants come from Louisiana, so there's no excuse for Bob for not coming up to the next PS race. And that counts for you too, Mr. Illinoize, Mike Noun!
