Hurst Performance

[vistacruiser67]

She really is pretty in this shot

[vistacruiser67]

VINTAGE ROADTEST OF 1968 HURST OLDS YOUTUBE VIDEO

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpmxaamNwhw"]1968 Hurst Olds - vintage road test - YouTube[/ame]


VINTAGE ROADTEST OF 1971 OLDS 442 W-30 WITH HURST 4 SPEED


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzBOsbcvOxk"]1971 Olds 442 W-30 4-speed Convertible - vintage road test - YouTube[/ame]

[vistacruiser67]

1968 FWD 442

1968 442 with a 455 with front wheel drive. It was purchased in 1970 from Guy Martin delarship in Woodland Park, California. The story is that only 3 of these cars manufactured as a special order from Hurst from Oldsmobile. This is the only one known to still be in existence. It is gold with a black stripe down the hood. The VIN is 344878M137975.

Originally Posted by bigsixman

vistacruiser67: That would be the car that was spoken of at the coffee table. I would sure appreciate any info and pictures that you may have to add to this thread.

[Hemi Moose]

VC, nice photos & articles on the Oldsmobile & Buicks that Hurst built...if you happen to come across any info on the '68 Hemi Darts & Hemi Barracuda's or the '69 AMX factory race cars, don't hesitate to add some of them as well.

[Lt1Mike]

Vista,

Do you happen to have any information on the Nova that was shown in the above photo? Just curious, did Hurst keep records of all of the Vin #'s of their cars?

Mike

[vistacruiser67]

Olds and Pontiac. I dont know that Hurst made any Buicks. I offered up the 70 Hurst Chrysler 300 (in recent post) as a burnt sacrifice of pleasant aroma to appease the Mopar gods.

Originally Posted by Hemi Moose

VC, nice photos & articles on the Oldsmobile & Buicks that Hurst built...if you happen to come across any info on the '68 Hemi Darts & Hemi Barracuda's or the '69 AMX factory race cars, don't hesitate to add some of them as well.

[vistacruiser67]

I noticed that Nova and marvelled but I dont know anything about it. I was desperately trying to post Mopars to balance my flood of Olds shots. Not sure about the VINS either. Just know a little about the 442s being shipped down the road to Demmer Tool and Die in Lansing for striping and the installation of Toronado 455 engines to make them Hurst Olds. At the time GM had a ban on intermediate A bodies of 400 cubic inches. Although the Chevy 396 was a 402. So the 455 engines had to be put in the Olds outside the GM plant. The ban was lifted in 1970 as we all know. Hurst seemed to make a variety of vehicles of different makes. Most I guess were one off vehicles.

Originally Posted by Lt1Mike

Vista,

Do you happen to have any information on the Nova that was shown in the above photo? Just curious, did Hurst keep records of all of the Vin #'s of their cars?

Mike

[vistacruiser67]

[Liteweight]

I'm really confused on the shot with the guys in the Hurst shirts hanging onto a hemi It looks like a 273,or 318 2 bbl. dangling over the engine compartment of a 65???? Barracuda, but then you have a couple guys trying to wrestle a race hemi into the interior of it. Was this the first wheelstander??

liteweight

[Hemi Moose]

Originally Posted by vistacruiser67

Olds and Pontiac. I dont know that Hurst made any Buicks. I offered up the 70 Hurst Chrysler 300 (in recent post) as a burnt sacrifice of pleasant aroma to appease the Mopar gods.

VC, I don't know why I was thinking Buick when looking at some of the photos you posted back on page one, it obviously was an '74 Hurst Olds W30, maybe the similar body styles that year threw me off, not to mention all the others that they built over the years such as Pontiac Chrysler Dodge Plymouth AMC/Jeep models back then or perhaps a few others that I don't recall at the moment...I am curious though how many '71 SSJ Grand Prix's did they make, because I didn't see to many of those around.