Re: Blast from the Past

[Don Miller <turbospl311@yahoo.com>]

F-85 was Oldsmobile. in 62-63 they ran the buick 215
aluminum v-8 turboed. It has since become the Rover
v-8. Was going to put one in the roadster but did the
v-6 nissan turbo instead.

Don Miller TLS #8
#32 68 Datsun Roadster Turbo V-6

--- BPS Administrator <mhood@busprod.com> wrote:
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> > At 12:25 AM 9/29/99 -0500, Phil Ethier wrote:
> > >From: Hottvr@aol.com <Hottvr@aol.com>
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> > >
> > >>The next year he bought a really
> > >>radical car.
> > >>It was a 1963 Corvair "Syder" a supercharged
> model
> > >
> > >It was turbo-supercharged.  I believe the Corvair
> Monza Spyder was the
> first
> > >mass-produced car to use a turbo.
> >
> > NOPE. Buick had a turbo F-85 (?) in the late 50s.
> It even had
> > factory water injection.
> 
> I thought the F-85 was an Oldsmobile?
> 
> Mike Hood
> DSP Vw GTi 8v
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