Who started it all, which really broke the mold to make motor performance one of the most addicting things a man or women could do? Who set the stage for an aftermarket industry to produce car parts? Who gave you that long bench seat that you used for other then intended purposes in high school? Well some may argue that it was Honda after the production of the Civic of 1979, but let’s look further back then when our older brother or sister first popped out your mother.
That’s right I’m talking early 60s and 50s, talking about SS Camaro, and matching number GTOS, were talking about those motors that made your heart jump out of your chest when they lopped at the line. Those motors that could mistake a stock car for a massage parlor as each stroke of the pistons and rod sent shock waves through the air that could be felt outside the car.
From North Augusta, SC Scott Weaver brings us a nasty mix with his bagged thumper, a Fully restored Oldsmobile with a bored out 455 breathing on Edelbrock aluminum heads and sitting on clouds with a dual tank Air ride system. What better way to display then to lay frame knowing your sitting on 450 horses of pure American muscle being transferred through a 2speed power glide that’s snapping at a 3.73 ratio dif. The sound that leaves the Flow master tips funneled from the Hooker headers is as graceful as a heavy metal jam but there is some sort of piece that one finds listening to each lope.
Scott tells us that he was fortunate to have come across this car last year after meeting Mick Howard at extreme Auto gallery in Marshall, MO. A big shout out to Howard coming from a small race shop in Wichita, KS for the nice laundry lists for the build of this motor. Scott’s car is a part of history, not because of it being his car but what it stands for what came out the development of car of its time.
