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  1. When you look at the Oldsmobile Limited you have segments for the cars. The 1909 Model Z and the 1910 Limited have a 130 inch wheelbase and used a 500 CID 6 cylinder engine rated at 60hp a 3 speed gearbox and the 43X5 tires. The 1911 and 1912 cars were increased in size. These later cars had a 138 inch wheelbase, a 707 CID 6 cylinder engine also rated at 60 hp, a 4 speed gearbox and the 43X5 tires.  

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  2. This type of fuel system in not a Gravity feed system, this is a pressurized system. To start the car you would pump air pressure into the tank by means a hand air pump. Usually 1.5 to 2.0 psi, there should be a air gauge on the dash. Once the car is running there is usually a air pump off the exhaust or a pump that runs off the valve spring to maintain the air pressure. Because of the CID of the motor a gravity system could not keep up with fuel supply and the engine would stumble and die out.

    An electric pump would work fine as long as the pump pressure is not to much to sink the float in the carburetor. This is why a pressure regulator is added to the system. 

     

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  3. I have done this with my 74 Olds Delta 88 convertible, if you are small enough you can cut the top well material and go over the back seat and get in the trunk. Once over the seat you end up on the spare tire so you dont have a lot of room to move.

    The back of the back seat will come out but the metal support bracing behind the seat will not allow access into the trunk. Cut the well at the back so when it drops it leaves you an opening to the trunk, if you cut the front (behind the seat) you will have to fight your way around this material to get in the trunk. You will then have to get the top well fixed. Good Luck.

     

    Ray

  4. That Olds can still draw a crowd.

    Those pictures of the Oldsmobile were taken in 1947 when the previous owner took the Limited on a cross country trip from Ohio out to the East coast, then to the West coast and back, He lived in Cleveland area drive the car for the entire trip.

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