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Muscle cars vs pony cars?

Not of the same caliber but I had a friend who inherited his Grandmas 1970 Nova in late 70's. I do not remember exactly how it was optioned but what I do is
1970 Nova HiPo 350, 4 speed, bench seat, 4 door, hunter green, he beat a lot of cars back in the day. I ran into him at my Dads burial 2017, he is a grave digger, he still has the car all original.
 
I'm an Olds guy if you can't tell. LOL
I have seen this car driving nearby where I live, but haven't met up with him yet. It's giving me project ideas for my 72 Polara.....


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The 65 442 Rochester 4 jet was a special carburetor. It had removeable plugs in the front of the carb so the jets could be changed without taking the air horn off. A very hard unit to find.
I bought the car in 1988 it was literally in a barn. I knew the guy who owned it, he bought it from a college student who had straight water in it and the block froze and cracked. He put a 1971 Olds 350 with a Quadrajet in it and had it in pretty good mechanical shape. The interior was in the trunk, still had bias ply tires and the top was bad. About 5 yrs. later I bought a 65 442 400 engine out of a hardtop along with the 2-spd auto trans and the original 442 air cleaner that fit the Rochester 4 jet which of course was missing from the engine. Flash forward to today the 71 350 is still in the car with the original 2-spd auto but it does have a new interior, convertible top, paint and radial tires among lots of other things. Maybe someday it will be a semi original numbers not matching car....
 
I bought the car in 1988 it was literally in a barn. I knew the guy who owned it, he bought it from a college student who had straight water in it and the block froze and cracked. He put a 1971 Olds 350 with a Quadrajet in it and had it in pretty good mechanical shape. The interior was in the trunk, still had bias ply tires and the top was bad. About 5 yrs. later I bought a 65 442 400 engine out of a hardtop along with the 2-spd auto trans and the original 442 air cleaner that fit the Rochester 4 jet which of course was missing from the engine. Flash forward to today the 71 350 is still in the car with the original 2-spd auto but it does have a new interior, convertible top, paint and radial tires among lots of other things. Maybe someday it will be a semi original numbers not matching car....
There's absolutely nothing wrong with preserving such a car matching numbers or not. The only way you can have a matching number car before 1968 is to have the protecto-plate or other documents with the engine ID number on them. Olds didn't put the car vin # on the engine till 1968. Finish it and enjoy it.
 

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