Driving a '55 Olds with skinny cross plys, factory drum brakes and that garbage can lid sized steering wheel at 90mph on a public street sounds pretty brave to me.

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Quote from: 68PONY link=topic=3032.msg17596#msg17596Welcome col good to see you joined up, your wait is nearly over , mine just begining, so soon to have 2 bad ass olds in the club...... well maybe not sharons but it was bad ass in 1955
cheers chris

Thanks for pointing me in this direction Chris. I'm looking forward to being part of the club.
I reckon you'll get a shock just how quick "your wife's" Olds will be. The old Rocket engines are legendary. You won't be holding up traffic that's for sure..... even if it is an 84 year old dentist's car:zip:

Sorry col but he was ..............89yo, get it right
Hey he told me how good it goes , he had her up to 90mph! on the freeway he did ,BLOODY HOOLIGAN DENTIST!

Yeah but dont forget they have good roads over there where 90mph is nothing, compared to 90mph on our goat tracks we have here! I'd be scared doing 90 on any of our roads! (unless of course its a vette, then I could do 190mph!)

Quote from: bonnevista link=topic=3032.msg17621#msg17621Driving a '55 Olds with skinny cross plys, factory drum brakes and that garbage can lid sized steering wheel at 90mph on a public street sounds pretty brave to me.

Yes but they are power factory drum brakes

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Quote from: bonnevista link=topic=3032.msg17621#msg17621Driving a '55 Olds with skinny cross plys, factory drum brakes and that garbage can lid sized steering wheel at 90mph on a public street sounds pretty brave to me.

Yes but they are power factory drum brakes

It'll pull up fine. My last Olds had power drums and it stopped like a disc brake car. Unlike my old Road Runner.....
While I'm a great Mopar fan, their drum brakes were woeful.
Take the 1970 Indy 500 Pace Car crash for example....
If the link doesn't work, google videos for 1971 Indy pace car crash. Mopar drums at their best. (FYI...1970 & 1972 Pace Cars were Oldsmobile Convertibles.....they didn't crash)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTNDPmIO4Lw



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