NC-car-guy Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 This one is probably even rougher than it looks especially with that giant hole in the roof. Wrong grill too. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/379047557694684/?mibextid=dXMIcH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smartin Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 ah ye olde 455 rocket. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B Jake Moran Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 (edited) 22 hours ago, Smartin said: ah ye olde 455 rocket. And a Stage 1 Rocket motor. I would stay far far away from that seller. I like how he says they made only 110,500 of them in 3 years. Well yes, but maybe only show how many convertibles they made to create a better idea of scarcity. LoL. Edited December 30, 2022 by B Jake Moran (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Conley Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Why are they always "Rockets"? I hate that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smartin Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 People blindly thinking that all BOP engines are the same, and since Olds had the Rocket name, it stuck in peoples' heads. Grooooooan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmTee Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 I thought he was referring to these... 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y-JobFan Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 71 front end on it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Conley Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 On 12/30/2022 at 5:12 PM, Smartin said: People blindly thinking that all BOP engines are the same, and since Olds had the Rocket name, it stuck in peoples' heads. Grooooooan. Oh, I know. Still hate it. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketraider Posted January 15, 2023 Share Posted January 15, 2023 We Olds guys get our share of indignity inflicted on us too. Examples: my Starfires are invariably called Impalas, my Ninety Eight a Cadillac, and my Toronado a Riviera. The Hurst/Olds usually gets "ain't never seen no hearse like thet". I guess I should count myself lucky they recognize them as GM products.🙄 We also get a lot of "y'ought put a Chivverlay motor innat. Them Rocket ingins ain't much good." That's when they get their feelings hurt.🙂 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y-JobFan Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 6 hours ago, rocketraider said: We Olds guys get our share of indignity inflicted on us too. Examples: my Starfires are invariably called Impalas, my Ninety Eight a Cadillac, and my Toronado a Riviera. The Hurst/Olds usually gets "ain't never seen no hearse like thet". I guess I should count myself lucky they recognize them as GM products.🙄 We also get a lot of "y'ought put a Chivverlay motor innat. Them Rocket ingins ain't much good." That's when they get their feelings hurt.🙂 I would think you would take it as a compliment having your Toro called a Riv, that's a step up in the world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smartin Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 Shots fired! 🤣 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmTee Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Is this where the CLC guy chimes in...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketraider Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 At least most people, even automotively ignorant people, can identify a Cadillac. The LaSalle part not so much. On 1/16/2023 at 9:24 AM, Smartin said: Shots fired! 🤣 And we have Rocket launchers!😏 Riviera are nice cars, no doubt. But they were for the personal luxury market who wasn't quite ready to step over the edge into the advanced engineering of Oldsmobile's radical for the time front wheel drive. I like 67-70 Eldorado too, but their market was the guy who was going to have the latest-and-greatest-cost-be-damned car he could buy short of going across the Atlantic. Then came 1971.🙄 Toronado stayed closer to the GM personal luxury styling mold and it was Riviera's turn for radical. I call 1971-78 Eldorado's pimp years. Then Toronado got bloated in 74, and Riviera became the best-styled of the 70s E-bodies. Shame the bottom fell out from under their market. The love-it-or-hate-it Boattail was a hard act to follow. There have been Buicks in the family, just never a Riviera. There have been six 66-85 Toronados, including one 66 that I'm not sure its owner ever realized it was front wheel drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B Jake Moran Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 21 hours ago, EmTee said: Is this where the CLC guy chimes in...? Funny. Have owned them all. In those years each division was unique enough that this should not be an issue. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y-JobFan Posted January 20, 2023 Share Posted January 20, 2023 (edited) On 1/17/2023 at 6:11 PM, rocketraider said: At least most people, even automotively ignorant people, can identify a Cadillac. The LaSalle part not so much. And we have Rocket launchers!😏 Riviera are nice cars, no doubt. But they were for the personal luxury market who wasn't quite ready to step over the edge into the advanced engineering of Oldsmobile's radical for the time front wheel drive. I like 67-70 Eldorado too, but their market was the guy who was going to have the latest-and-greatest-cost-be-damned car he could buy short of going across the Atlantic. Then came 1971.🙄 Toronado stayed closer to the GM personal luxury styling mold and it was Riviera's turn for radical. I call 1971-78 Eldorado's pimp years. Then Toronado got bloated in 74, and Riviera became the best-styled of the 70s E-bodies. Shame the bottom fell out from under their market. The love-it-or-hate-it Boattail was a hard act to follow. There have been Buicks in the family, just never a Riviera. There have been six 66-85 Tornadoes, including one 66 that I'm not sure its owner ever realized it was front wheel drive. Regardless what each portrayed at a specific time they were both marketed in the exact same class, they personal luxury class. They both offered something a little different but if you want sporting personal luxury I would put a Riv GS up against the Toro any day of the week and twice on Sunday. But there is one fact that is set in stone, the Buick was a step up from an Olds in the GM hierarchy Edited January 20, 2023 by Y-JobFan (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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