Alan & Alan..
Wasn't the Starfire a GM 'B' (full-size) body Special based off of the
61-62 & 63-64 Olds Dynamic 88 with a High Compression Olds 394 ci
engine.....
AND
the Jetfire the First generation 61-63 GM 'A'(intermediate) body
F-85/Cutlass....with a 3.5 liter / 215 ci Iron-Sleeved Aluminum Buick engine
with a turbo? (The same design that Buick later(64?) sold to Rover for the
3500 sedan...the TR8 and the Range Rover) I also think that it developed 1
HP per Cubic Inch which made it sprightly in a 2800 pound car...They WERE a
nice sized small sedan...
The interesting part is that the Buick Special / Skylark 'A' body that
donated the 215 to the Pontiac Tempest / Lemans and Olds F-85 / Cutlass
NEVER had the Turbo option and didn't the Turbo require some special
water injection system with alcohol additive back then in 1963? Wasn't the
base Buick V-6 225ci a lopped-off version of the Buick V-8 and powered the
larger 'A' body Buick Special / Skylark beginning in 1964?
A little bit before my time to drive, I was 8 then.... How 'bout it
Phil Ethier???????
Alex Quirk
St Marys PA vquirk@penn.com
"enjoy what you drive and DRIVE IT WELL!!!"
>Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 08:09:42 EDT
>From: PbPied@aol.com
>Subject: Re: Blast from the Past
>The Oldsmobile with the turbo was labeled the "Jetfire", as has been said.
>The little alloy V-8 is still popular with some rodders and racers. Wasn't
>it also the TR8 motor?
>My brother had a V-8 Starfire (n/a) and the family had a Corvair (also
n/a),
>but one of my high school friends had the Jetfire. I may have been new to
>driving, and therefore impressionable, but... That car was FAST!
>A year or two ago someone offered one described as "original" for sale via
>a flyer on the local post office bulletin board. I should have gone and
>looked
>at it, but value domestic harmony too much to bring home another car.
Seems
>to me that particular version of the Olds must be quite uncommon now, and
the
>asking price was $6500, I think... Hmmm....
>Alan Sheidler
>(still have the '66 Corvair Dad traded the '64 for...)
>>Nope again :-). Buick never had a turbo back then. The other GM Turbo was
>>the Oldsmobile Starfire (same chassis as the F-85 however) with a
>>turbocharged Buick V-6. The Starfire came out in '62, same as the Corvair,
>>but was built for 2 years only before being dropped.
>> - Alan Dahl
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