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Yes, exactly. late 30's and early 40-41 series 90 was a real competitor to Cadillac, so what is the missing factor? Alfred Sloan and Big Bill Knudsen gave Harlow Curtis the chance to bring up an ailing Buick. When Harlow Curtis was president, he remembered this and picked Big Bill Knudsen's son Bunkie Knudsen to resurrect Pontiac in 1956. Curtis brought Buick out of the doldrums by undercutting mostly Oldsmobile Bunkie Knudsen brought Pontiac out of the doldrums by making an old man's car into a young man's car through marketing, styling and most importantly by going racing.

Alfred Sloan's 'Car for Every Purse and Purpose'. That was certainly Sloans idea of moving people into the higher elevation of GM ownership. You will see however that in the 40's and 50's that it was not the case. Buick in many of those years outsold Plymouth, Mercury, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Dodge and captured 3rd place in overall domestic sales. Buick didn't achieve this because their cars were better, Buick achieved this because they undercut their competitors. Look at GM pricing for example in the late 40's threw 1955, there are many years you will see that price leader Buicks cut below Oldsmobile and sometimes dipping into Pontiac price leading cars. This was totally against Sloans policy. It must have really infuriated the people at Olds and Pontiac seeing this happening. Example 1955 Buick Special 2 dr. sedan $2233, 1955 Olds 88 2 dr. sed. $2297. The pricing structure was supposed to look like this. The cheapest Buick would dip below the most expensive Oldsmobile, and so on down to Pontiac and from Pontiac to Chevrolet.

Carter AFB Model # 3300S (Yellow tag). For Bonneville and StarChief with Super Hydra-Matic Carter AFB Model # 3326S (Red tag). For Catalina and Grand Prix with Roto Hydra-Matic Carter AFB Model # 3123S (Black tag) For all stick shift cars. Except Tempest

Even the Body manual doesn't show it. This will help!

Apparently, Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small didn't get it as he ends up in a pile of manure while hand cranking his Rover. Around 42:18 in the episode A Dogs Life. All Creatures Great And Small S02E13 A Dog's Life - video ...

So, what has happened to all those brass era and prewar cars?

P4 Rover has a hand crank 1949 VW beetle last hand crank 1959 VW Bus last year hand crank

There was a BBC or Thames series called " Danger UXB" where the sergeant suspects some of his men doing the wrong thing and calls his corporal. You're the corporal in charge here, now get down in there and get it sorted. I've heard it where the pilot says to the flight engineer before a mission; I hope you've got this crate well sorted from the last time we went out. I've also heard it said in this context. I'm going to knock this guy's block off, that will sort him out.

What you got there is a 39 Pontiac. Now a lot of us Pontiac guys would tell the owner at a show "nice Chevy" And if you are going to modify a Pontiac, use a Pontiac engine. There are a few guys in my town that have Gassers, Henry J's and Willys and a 55 Chev 150, all of them Chevy powered. It's interesting that they say they are going for that nostalgia look but when my dad and I were drag racing in the 50-60's we would see plenty of 392 Hemi's and 394 Oldsmobile engines in gassers. That 39 Pontiac has a BBC; Ah, much better a real Pontiac!

No HWY but a lot of us we just call it the Road. And one of my favorite over the road songs. I had the CD on yesterday driving from Phoenix to home in Prescott. Up 17 and the big hill at 85. Rockin' Down the Highway (from Rockin' Down The Highway https://www.youtube.com › watch

Ventura HWY is in the title and all throughout the lyrics.

Prior to the car I'm working on, the last time I shot a car in lacquer was in 1992 and before that 1974. In 1974 I shot my 65 Sea Blue Beetle, http://www.pismoderelicts.com/photogallery/new format 834/images/img_0138_edited_1.jpg The Beetle was done in the usual way of shooting acrylic lacquer cars I had done in the past. This means shooting a couple of coats and then when I could get some free time like a week or two, wet sanding and another couple of coats and so on until the desired coats is reached. In 1992 I decided to shoot my 69 Pontiac LeMans. Because I'm the original owner and the miles were so low a body-off was a waste of time however the front clip was removed and the deck lid too. This new color was PPG black, and I would shoot the car over several months (like I did the beetle). When the car was finally ready for paint, I had the hood and deck lid on easels and painted them first for their first coats. The next day I wet sanded them, tacked them off and hit them again and the proceeded to go around and shoot the rest of the car. When I got back to the hood and decklid the paint on them had shriveled up like crinkle paint!😬. My neighbor across the street was a PPG rep. so I asked Jeff what's going on. Didn't you read the container instructions??? NO! I've been painting cars in lacquer for a donkey's age! Why would I want to read the label? Turned out with this new lacquer (1992) you will do the first coat and keep going round and round until the desired amount of coats are put down. So I had to re-strip and start over again! http://www.pismoderelicts.com/photogallery/new format 937/images/p1020752.jpg

Just curious, I wonder if anyone has had experience with a 2 X 4bbl spread bore intake running 2 Q jets? I suppose the real plus to this is you could never over carburate an engine that couldn't use it all. For the street it would be good for mileage/throttle response because of those high velocity primaries.

Well, No, I've got a car that's 1/4 done. It's all epoxy primed and have done some sanding primer, but I don't have enough. I've got two gallons of primer sealer and two gallons of color, and I have about 55 gallons of medium temp lacquer thinner. I'm just not ready yet because of other things ( just finished an engine that was unexpected) so I haven't hit the paint supply store to see what they can do. This looks promising though.

N/G?

Reminds me of an old 124 Kodak print.

1946 Chev or 40's Oldsmobile grille Dodgems

For me, not too many, just too many modified.

I wanted Rocketraders opinion on the 260 OldsV-8 because just like the short deck 301 and 265 Pontiac V-8's there are some internal structural differences on the Pontiac short deck from the 354, 400, and 456 Pontiac's. I was wondering about the internal differences between the short deck 330 and 350 Olds and the 260. When he said the 250 Chevy was a better pick I was thinking it was because of the 260's shortcomings.

No, I knew going in what it was. A little different than the guy who knows very little about cars and shows a friend his new Rocket V-8 only to find his friend calling him a dope saying it's a Chevy engine and you got hosed. At that time (1976) I needed a family car, America had just come out of an oil embargo (1973) and was about to go through another one, I needed a car I could tweak to get 30+MPG HWY mileage. I had also read that the 250 had this new mono head intake that helped the thermal and volumetric efficiency giving better torque at lower RPM and better fuel distribution. At that time, because there wasn't enough data and cars out with high mileage there that there was a problem with cylinder heads/exhaust manifolds cracking. It turned out for me the problem was mute because I warm up my engines before I drive my cars. That amounts to driving off just when the cold Temp light goes out at 114 degrees (I use an older G.M. dual hot cold temp sensor and also mechanical gauges). This allows the entire engine to expand more slowly and unlike others I haven't experienced a head manifold problem.

It's not like any Gen2 short deck? Which I really like. School me rocketraider in not so many words as to not bore the folks if you will.

I have this 1976 Omega brougham 4 dr. sed. I special ordered it and it has the 250" Chevrolet six, a truly great engine and smooth as can be with its seven main bearing. It's not fast, but at sea level over flat ground it will do an honest (GP READING) 100mph. After all these years 115,000+ it runs great. Sometimes I wish I ordered it with the 260" Olds V-8, and the reason I said 260 is in California is the 350" engine was Chevrolet. For about ten years until I moved to Arizona, I entered that car in OCA's Pacific/Southwest Zone meet which is a point judged show. The car was shown in the survivor class. The point I'm making is that at those shows (which allowed spectators from around the town always had a crowd around it looking at the engine. Of course, and understandably the Olds guys hardly looked at it. I understand and was raised with the attitude that the brand is the engine. While I'd like to add an Olds 350 or a 403, I just can't do it, I guess for originalities sake and a little bit of love for that little six banger that never let me down-and never had to make me change a timing chain (cause its gear to gear). Body paint, engine paint-engine bay paint and interior all original.

Ward Cleaver started with 57 Fords and ended up starting in 1959 with Plymouths.

Darn carburetors, I'm taking that carburetor back with me for evidenceWait, there is no carburetor! Trouble? having trouble? You should have used a carburetor!😉 Carburetors and cars with carburetor systems do catch fire, but most of the time you have time to smell it first and sometimes do something about it and if not get away from it, quite unlike a EFI system with a system under pressure of 40+PSI that develops a leak even ever so small and sprays all over the engine bay.

That group I put up there "Mitch and Mitch", can you get that on Comcast?