Re: Blast from the Past

[bruce haden <bhaden@ucsd.edu>]

>>NOPE. Buick had a turbo F-85 (?) in the late 50s. It even had
>>factory water injection.
>
>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.

I stand corrected. You're right, it was Olds. I was only 10 or so at the
time so
my memory is clouded with Turbo-Buick memories of modern times.