Why on earth do I like old cars?

Charger

My 69 Charger is well option dealers car, perhaphs it spent time on the showroom showing the options you could get. 3834bbl, 727 auto, 3.23 gears in a 8 3/4 rear. Duals, PS, PDB,PW, A/C, Af/Fm rear speaker, cruise control, SE package- wood face dash board, hood turn signals, pedal dress up, light pkg, 3 spoke sport steering wheel, rocker moldings, 6 way manual driver seat, and of course the rare, 391 made, power sunroof. Here's some more pics MPJ
ps some of you might recognize some of the places the Charger is!

 

John, When were you at World Headquarters last summer? CEMA SHOW in June? or? Sweet ride BTW, Jer

 

Don't do that, I want it! I'm sick to death of the gutless 307 in my 88 Cutlass Supreme. I'd love a 455!

I'm just down in Austin and will gladly take that 98 off your hands!!

-Mike

 

My 2 cents:

In general old cars are easy but here's the rub:

1. Carbs do not like 10% ethanol in the fuel. The mixture automatically is off a bit. The ethanol fuel vaporizes a whole lot more than just gasoline to the tune of 40* lower temp thus the fuel tends to boil easily making poor hot starting. Just like vapor lock. Not the fuel in the hose but the fuel in the carb bowl. The shelf life on straight gasoline is about 6 months. Ethenol in the gas reduces that to about 3 months.

2. Old wireing and old switches. I'm surprised we don't burn more cars to the ground with aging wires.

3. Q-jets are actually great carbs but they take a loving touch.

My 19 year old Tbird just loves the ethenol fuel. Just old enough to be old but not old enough to miss the fuel injection technology. It runs great and gets 20 mpg in town. About 28 on the highway.

My former wagon (82 Cougar) hated the ethenol. Especially living at 2,400 feet the fuel vaporized even more than at sea level. It liked sea level but hates 2,400 feet. Now it lives in McKinney Texas and it's much happier there.

Everyone with a carbed car needs to consider the fuel and have somebody tune the carb to run on it better but you will NEVER solve the hot start issue. It may be worth the $400-$500 to put it on a dyno and have an expert with hot rod carb tuning expertise to rejet and adjust the carb to run better on ethenol gas. Also consider the 40 years or so old wireing especially under the hood. Is every contact clean, is every wire good, is every ground good etc, etc.

 

I was there for the Woodward Ave. Cruise, and it was fantastic!!

 

Nice Cutlass ,it deserves a lS1 upgrade!

That would make it fun again!

 

Naw, want to keep it stock looking and Olds powered. I've really been looking for an Olds 350 or 403 for it.

The car is a lot of fun as it is, but that 307 could not push it's way through a wet paper bag.

 

Hey Mike, I will definitely keep you in mind if I decide to sell it. But, even though I have been extremely frustrated with my 98, it is a nice, rust-free car, and I would hate to have it's engine ripped out of it.

I sure do like your Cutlass! It's beautiful! :2_thumbs_up_-_anima

David

 

David, keep us posted on what the mechanic comes up with. It might help some of us in the future should we have similar problems.

Every now and then my wagon will do something it is not supposed to. VERY frustrating. Particularly if I'm away from my shop and tools and thus under the gun to find someone who I trust to work on it.