1968 Oldsmobile Cutlass - Custom restoration/rebuild that's fast and fun
1968 Oldsmobile Cutlass custom
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.
- Make: Oldsmobile
- Model: Cutlass
- Trim: custom
- Year: 1968
- Mileage: 10,000
- Color: Silver/Black
- Engine size: 350 cubic inch
- Number of cylinders: 8
- Fuel: Gasoline
- Transmission: Manual
- Drive type: RWD
- Interior color: Black
- Vehicle Title: Clear Want to buy? Contact seller!