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    Arky-X is offline Just Too Addicted Arm chair racerJust too addicted
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    I've heard the Olds 455 mentioned on this thread more than once. My brother ran one in a dirt track car for a few years. I remember him talking about building it to W30 specs which meant torque, torque and more torque. Funny thing was how it could handle the RPM too which I didn't expect out of a big block. It really shined on the bigger 3/8 and 1/2 mile tracks.

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    The 455 was a monster motor, still a very much a sought after motor. I have a olds 425 motor punched .30 over sitting in the shop, something I’ve been hoping to go thru for way to many years.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DAM shop View Post
    The 455 was a monster motor, still a very much a sought after motor. I have a olds 425 motor punched .30 over sitting in the shop, something I’ve been hoping to go thru for way to many years.
    If I recall, the Buick and Olds 455's both had high 4's to low 500's ft/lb of torque and I believe they were both more than the Ford 460.

    Someone correct me if that's not true while I go look it up

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    Quote Originally Posted by ironchop View Post
    If I recall, the Buick and Olds 455's both had high 4's to low 500's ft/lb of torque and I believe they were both more than the Ford 460.

    Someone correct me if that's not true while I go look it up

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    480 ft pounds for the high output 455
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    1974 original 90 X 2

    1974 Original 70.

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    I love the fact that all of the olds v8s are pretty much directly interchangeable, you get bored with the 307 or 350 and you can drop in a 455 without much trouble and it doesn't change the appearance much. And a lot of those early 80s gm cars are a set of motor mounts away from being able to run whatever you want.
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    A few el's I've been looking at on-line

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ID:	260485 66 with a 350 + new 700R4 auto trans with overdrive.. 8g
    90 nickolson Bored and Stroked "The Good"

    Big Bore 110 Pauter frame "The Bad"

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    110 JSC frame Bored and Stroked
    flat track build. “Shop trike”

    1974 original 90 X 2

    1974 Original 70.

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    I'd go for the '65.

    That's my own dislike for the forward slant nose on the later 60's Chevy cars. Same as how I prefer the early 60's Nova's over the later 60's ones. The later ones look bloated and hunched up like a Hot Wheels muscle car, whereas the early ones look unassuming, yet still stylish.

    I've always preferred more of a sleeper car and confess I've never been much of a testicular bromance car enthusiast. Even as a teenager, I gravitated towards the big ones that could haul the mail.

    A couple of videos I've like for years.

    I had this car as a Chevy, just with at 400 small block. Notice it's a four door hard top. Pretty rare and very slick.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10i1y2ZFFT4

    This is like the current car I have with a 455. A two door LeSabre from the early 80's. Pretty hard to come by and very difficult to get out of in modern parking spaces when it has 5' long doors.
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    I'm still partial to the 68/69 chevelle here's a pic of my 69 Pontiac Beaumont Canadian made chevelle had it since I was 16 also have another 69 chevelle that's been sitting under a tarp for the last 20years and am hoping when life slows down I can start working on that one just to leaving the stock body and interior but put in a twin turbo 6.0... I have to say the aussie chevelle is bad ass!!Click image for larger version. 

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    Bad Ass!Click image for larger version. 

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    for the most bang for the bucks. I'd go with a 60s el camino. nice as a chevelle and you can haul your trikes in back. ( hunt up some of my old posts to see my 68 loaded with atc's). since you said your on a budget, stay away fr the LS type stuff, just a old school chevy V8, cheap! dependable and easy to work on
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    I see there is a 68 Pontiac Beaumont for sale on one of my watch groups. It’s in Canada so maybe it one of the members car. I’ve heard of the Beaumont before but didn’t know a whole lot about them. Most important fact is that it was made and sold in Canada only and the other interesting fact is the mix and match of style and motors that it used. Didn’t think the asking price of 19,000 was a terrible price.
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    flat track build. “Shop trike”

    1974 original 90 X 2

    1974 Original 70.

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    Canada isn’t a good place for cars to age, everything rusts up there unless it was religiously parked from October to April every year of its life. Take a good look at the underside of anything you find up there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by El Camexican View Post
    Canada isn’t a good place for cars to age, everything rusts up there unless it was religiously parked from October to April every year of its life. Take a good look at the underside of anything you find up there.
    True to a point El Cam. Cars from the southern parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba had a fighting chance due to the dry climate and super cold winters where salt is ineffective for ice control. Sand and gravel we're the traction aid of choice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by coolpool View Post
    True to a point El Cam. Cars from the southern parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba had a fighting chance due to the dry climate and super cold winters where salt is ineffective for ice control. Sand and gravel we're the traction aid of choice.
    True, most of the stuff I’ve seen that was driven West of MB was decent, but the stuff east of there is rotten.

    My grandfathers last pickup, a 1970 F100 that never saw salt is still pretty rusty from what I assume was y’all the sandblasting of the gravel roads.

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