Life Amongst A 1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon
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Hang on a minute! It’s non fifty-fifty the automobile I wanted. I wanted a '74 Grand Prix SJ or a '75 Grand Prix LJ. She simply sort of came along too followed me home. Now she’s made a nest here. What tin I do? I checked the curt listing too the long listing must-own cars too almost industrial plant life her there. I did detect a seventies Colonnade vogue Cutlass. It was a 1977 Olds 442 inwards burgundy amongst silvery trim. This automobile is almost that. Being a Salon model, it has a bring upwardly sway bar too very, very, comfy, reclining bucket seats. Checking the Salon selection box also got yous a means cool flooring shifter, reminding yous of 442 days gone by.
I telephone yell upwardly my Olds Nanny Dean
— Ron Kidd, junkyardlife.com
I telephone yell upwardly my Olds Nanny Dean
I acquire to function stupid early. Probably the coldest purpose of the entire clock, and I am out in that place yell for a 350 Olds engine to come upwardly to life. I must say, Nanny Dean (her name) is non happy almost this. She is a piffling grouchy too lethargic. With almost an 1/8-of-a-mile of correct human foot persuasion, she comes completely to life too idles too shifts similar it’s an 80 flat twenty-four hours outside. The non-rim style, fat, padded steering bike feels super practiced inwards my hands, too did I advert how incredibly bully those seats feel?
Living amongst a 36-year-old car
So, I decided to reckon what it would go similar to alive day-to-day amongst a 1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon. It would go my master copy automobile for a week. "Why not?," I thought. Jody had a 1976 Buick Century that was an everyday automobile until it nearly met its demise nether a metropolis bus. Anthony has a fabulous 1979 Grand Prix that has taken him everywhere lately. Was Nanny Dean upwardly to the task? Could she grip some town errands equally good equally daily commuting? What almost traveling? Dare I? Also, could I grip it? One calendar week without the spacious room of my SUV or my wagon? Can a body supersede cavernous cubic feet of hauling capability? What almost a automobile trip? That traveling matter I mentioned? Ron Kidd is a brave man.
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| Ron pulled over for a photograph of his 1976 Cutlass Salon on the means to a car show inwards Lineville, Alabama. |
More than a handful
Nanny Dean has no loving cup holder. She’s a Salon, non a saloon. This does appear to brand it the way. I receive got learned to remainder a fast nutrient potable on the console. Speaking of that, in that place is non one, but iii within storage compartments. Unfortunately, the middle console door doesn’t desire to remain down. It volition tardily opened upwardly itself too yous volition casually relaxation your paw inwards the midst of receipts, pens too Tic Tacs. As far equally luxury accents are concerned, the radio won’t pick upwardly FM channels, but it has a nifty Sony automobile stereo that somebody installed inwards the 1980’s. Anyone think cassette tapes? Out from the depths of my stone too curlicue cupboard a massive pile of cassettes! I don’t heed some of the cool retro tunes I collected dorsum inwards the day. I acquire out on playing Dire Straits “Heavy Fuel” too Tom Petty amongst Stevie Nicks doing a alive encompass of “Needles too Pins.” It’s all I tin hear to yesteryear force.
A pigment chore yous tin alive with
Maneuvering downwards the route amongst a large physician Pepper on the console can exam my tight rope-like, balancing abilities, but I don’t heed sitting the potable on the pigment patch I fumble to unload. This sort of outrageous activeness is unheard of on my Trans Am. I don’t fifty-fifty allow bugs striking that car. However, amongst this one, I tin lean against it all I want. You tin too, because the pigment is terrible. It’s all 1 color amongst the remnants of the mill pivot stripes
Bright ideas
So hither is what I got too what I don’t got... I got a body light. It works great! No losing anything inwards there. I had a deer acquire caught inwards that lite once. I don’t receive got a dome light. I don’t demand one. I receive got what GM called "opera lights" inwards the bring upwardly interior panels too lights nether both sides of the dash. I fifty-fifty receive got a map lite on the dash. They thought of all kinds of things inwards 1976! As crude oil equally this beater’s interior is, amongst a rip cutting hither too a split upwardly identify there, I yet don’t swallow inwards it. That’s weird, I know. Roll upwardly windows
Nanny Dean doesn't receive got might windows. I sort of similar that. When the Cutlass got caught exterior inwards the rain, I raised the window without having to apply the ignition key. But too hence again, if yous receive got might windows, yous tin curlicue them both upwardly at the same time. So I gauge that’s a wash. Peppy but scout your whoa!
I experience somewhat extra cool when I acquire to position that 442-style, musculus car-era, flooring shifter into gear. Nanny Dean moves amongst authorization too shifts accordingly. I receive got a witness that she smacked 2nd gear amongst a trace of piece of job solid chirping of the bring upwardly tires. You tin actually experience it answer yesteryear the spot of your pants when I give it simply a piffling to a greater extent than pedal than necessary. I don’t know what to compare it to? It simply feels similar a much to a greater extent than powerful automobile nether all circumstances I receive got encountered. I ever appear to run out of route earlier I run out of motor or gearing. When the inevitable happened too I had to acquire downwards on the brakes, she stopped similar a much lighter automobile amongst the absence of whatever pulling to either side. I would experience similar I withheld data on yous if I didn’t advert the cornering pleasance the bring upwardly sway bar offers. I am non proverb it’s cook for the Tail of the Dragon inwards Tennessee, but it actually surpasses my expectations of a mid seventies mid size sedan.
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| Nanny Dean, a 1976 Olds Cutlass, rolls on white walls to an out-of-town automobile show. Her 350-V8 purrs similar a kitten. |
Road tripping inwards the Cutlass
We striking the route to an out-of-town automobile show. Not incredibly far, exclusively almost 2 hours each way. I filled the body amongst a cooler too 2 lawn chairs equally good equally the park tool kit. Yes, a tool kit, because I am brave, but non stupid. Interstate, state highways too dorsum county roads too fifty-fifty sitting inwards traffic, Nanny Dean performed similar a champ. I got bully gas mileage, too. I am non going say simply how much, exclusively because I don’t know. I am yet cruising on that same tank of gas. She may non go a Prius, but I volition compare it to most SUVs out there. It’s actually non bad. The whole trip went swimmingly, without a hiccup too was actually comfortable. Living happy '76 style
So Life amongst a '76 Cutlass Salon? It was great! Despite the rather bland color, it’s spicy too fun. I acquire a lot of compliments too stories on similar cars that were a purpose of people’s lives. At Junkyard Life, nosotros actually dig stories similar that. Road trip? Done. Cold mornings? No problem. Gas mileage? Decent, if non downright good. Errands? Fun. Sitting yet inwards drive-thrus too tiresome traffic congestion? It doesn’t heed a bit. Life amongst a '76 Cutlass is non bad. I would fifty-fifty acquire equally far equally proverb life is actually good.— Ron Kidd, junkyardlife.com
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