The car duly arrived here in NZ, and
Stan drove it up until last year and
decided to give the car a repaint in its
original colour ‘Willow Gold’ but left the
door shuts and entire trunk area alone as
it still had the original stickers in perfect
condition. On that subject, it has the
original build sheet, owner’s manual and
protector plate. The body was perfect
with no rust or dents anywhere; it had
never been in an accident its whole life.
It was decided to replate all the chrome
at this stage. The interior still had the
plastic on the seats, Stan’s car has bench
seats while Egan’s is a bucket seat car.
Stan has been a regular entrant at
Muscle Car Madness at until the house
and business moved to Sefton he lived
right across the road from the first burn
out pad. The past few years Stan and his
other half, Jennine have taken the Olds to
Kerikeri to visit relations and also take in
the ‘Beach Hop.’ Last year’s month-long
roadie clocked up 4,000kms and now
that low mileage car reads nearly 90,000
and he loves every minute of driving it.
The car can be seen at most south island
car shows and is always immaculate.
20 > NZ HOT ROD AUGUST 2019
F E AT U R E S & S PEC I F I C ATI O N SENGINE: 1968 Hi-performance 455 cubic inch
Oldsmobile, 10.5 compression, forged pistons,
Lunati cam, roller rockers Proform 850 cfm
carb on an alloy Airgapper intake manifold.
E XH AU ST: Custom-made headers through
to a 3” stainless system, ‘Adrenalin’ mufflers.
TRANSMISSION: Turbo 400
with a 2500 stall converter.
REAR END: Factory 9-3/4” ring
gear 2.78 ratio, positraction and all
untouched from new. Air shocks.
FRONT END: Rebuilt stock with
KYB adjustable shocks.
BODY/PAINT: All original, painted factory
Willow Gold in water-based paint.
INTERIOR: All factory
original. It is not redone.
WHEELS/TYRES: 17”x9” Boyd Coddington
wheels wearing Maxis 235/50/17” up front
and Nitto 275/50/17” on the rears with
the original spare tyre in the trunk.
WEIGHT: 4226 lbs
QUARTER MILE TIME: From factory
15.8 seconds and now 14 seconds dead!
FUEL CONSUMPTION: Yes, it certainly does!!