1968 Oldsmobile Cutlass - Custom restoration/rebuild that's fast and fun

1968 Oldsmobile Cutlass custom Description

Up for auction is my 1968 Oldsmobile Cutlass 350. This Olds has had performance and convenience additions during a father and son complete frame-off rebuild in 2004. She has had light use up to recently witha refresh service, clean, and tune up just recently finished. Under 10,000 milesare on the carsince resto-rebuild. A few parking lot dings were repaired and the whole car has been buffed-out. It looks great, runs great, and drives great and will not disappoint.

She is clean and a very fast and fun-to-drive muscle car that gets a lot of attention without being garish.

There is a full list of upgrades and work done below, but the highlights are:

• Attractive 1968 Hurst Olds 'themed' finish, including black and silver paint scheme, under-bumper Ram air intakes, W-30 red front wheel wells, and new reproduction interior

• Machine-balanced Oldsmobile 350 small block, with aftermarket cam, manifold, roller rockers, carburetor, headers and exhaust, and ignition. Shaved heads to make 11:1 compression

• Modern 6-speed overdrive transmission along with a 4:33 posi-traction rear-end make it quick and fast

• 4-wheel disc brakes and best-option retrofit control arms and sway bars all around make it composed and pretty darn fun around the corners. Car can’t decide if it is Pro-touring or Pro-street

More detailed List of upgrade parts/ work done:

• ‘Hurst Olds themed’ black and silver paint job

• ‘68 Hurst Olds OEM under-bumper ram air intakes and air filter housing

• Red W-30 OEM fender wells

• Olds 350 cubic inch small block- believe it was originally a'70

• Machine shop balanced block and crank

• Mondelo cam shaft with mild aggressive timing improvement

• Original heads upgraded with W-31 sized valves hardened and shaved for higher compression ratio of 11:1

• Harland Sharp roller rockers

• Edlebrock aluminum manifold

• High performance aftermarket Holly carburetor flow bench calibrated

• OEM Hurst Olds air cleaner and ducts for Ram air intake

• Doug Thorley nickel-plated headers

• 3" 'X' cross-over exhaust into 2.5" mufflers

• Aftermarket exhaust mufflers

• MSD Superconductor ignition

• Aftermarket 'walnut & rivets' steering wheel

• POR-15 rust-proofing paint coat on the whole of the underbody, chassis, and suspension

• Upgraded OEM sway bars

• Global West suspension front control arms (upper & lower)

• Global West rear upper control arms (adjustable)

• Global West sway bar bushings. All bushings except for front sway bar are stock style. Front sway bar bushings are competition poly

• Olds Performance Products rear lower control-arm adapters for launching

• 4.33:1 OEM posi rear end

• Trans Am rear disk brakes

• 1LE front disc brakes, tall spindle swap

• 'New' complete black reproduction interior

• Aftermarket Sony speakers - 6"x9" rear, 5.5" front; under dash CD stereo unit

• Transmission modification: modern Tremec (T56) 6-speed transmission (with bell housing adapter plate, transmission tunnel modification, new driveline, electric drive speedometer, and transmission cross bar mods)

• Custom Hurst shift lever/handle with 6 speed shift pattern

• New battery

• Later model OEM 15 x 7 rally rims

Non-ideals:

• OEM radio doesn't work but brand new under-dash CD stereo does

• Clutch linkage gives some noise, though was investigated and hasn't caused any problems

• Original Tick Tach Tock not functioning

Please note thatthe car is for sale locally and auction may end early.