(In the Late 80's Early 90's) 87 GN W/Plate "Id Win"

[BlackoutDrunk]

I was telling someone a story over the weekend about how I became interested in GN's. I was still in high school, so I'm guessing the year was either 89, 90 or 91 and my buddies and I were in my car (my first car by the way a 79 Olds Delta 88) and we were talking about guys in school who had fast cars. As we pulled up to the stop light there was a black Buick in front of us and his license plate said "ID WIN". I thought that was pretty cocky and one of my buddies was like "no way man I see those cars beat the crap out of mustangs and Irocs all the time" and I started to look into them more and more.

My interested was really cemented when another friend of mine got a designer series T and took me for a ride in it. I've been in love since and finally last year was able to get a GN of my very own.

Just curious if any board member here lived on the south side of Chicago in the Westlawn area (late 80's early 90's) and had a GN with that plate? I remember the exact street, heading south on Kostner crossing 63rd St.

 

[DIAZ 87]

my love of the gn came yes in 85 when my big brother friend came over with
a gn and drove us to the store and the rest was history,in high school in 88 my best friend mom brought an 86 gn which we use to street race all the time and that is were we ran in ken barton from ans performance in melrose park and then all hell broke lose.we ended up having ans work on the gn and it was a sick feeling that how crazy fast the gn became after 1000 dollars into it:biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:

 

[57loboy]

One of my first cars was a '79 Delta 88 2-door... Not my first, but still while in HS and first year or 2 of college. I put a full Caprice 9C1 suspension in it, WS6 steering box and front sway bar from a B-body wagon in it (bigger then the cop version) with gas shocks. Never ceased to amaze people with how well that thing cornered with those mods...all were direct bolt on too. When I sold the '79, I re-did the project on an '84 Custom Cruiser that I pulled all the woodgrain off and tinted out the windows - all long before today's ghetto tinting was the rage. I love those Olds V8s - lots of torque, bulletproof reliability. As a matter of fact, I've got my eye on a white/blue int Custom Cruiser from '89 or so locally that has the scarce turbine rims. Have always wanted to trick up one again - they're so much fun!

 

[BlackoutDrunk]

I don't think my delta didn't even have an olds engine in it. It had a 301 (stock my grandfather ordered it from olds) in it which I think was a pontiac motor. I guess for a few years GM was using motors from other divisions on multiple platforms. That engine ran and ran and ran. After a couple years with me (and it being my first car ) it looked like hell and my friends called it the Memphis Delta cause it just kept going. I sold that car in 92 with 130k on it and it was spotted around my old neighborhood for about 5 years after that. I never had one bit of mechanical trouble with that car no oil leaks, no trans problems and it got pretty good gas mileage too.

The best thing about that car was the extremely spacious interior, I lost my virginity in that car.

 

[BlackoutDrunk]

back then, in my mind, my delta could do this!!!!! :biggrin:

ah the memories!!!!

 

[57loboy]

I love the '77 Pace Car Delta 88... My fresh/soph year in college I actually knew of two of those within 10 miles of each other... One was a daily driver for someone that worked at the campus health clinic, the other was sitting in the weeds in the back of someone's house. Left a note on the front door of the derelict one and never heard anthing. Stopped by one day a few weeks later and house was cleaned out and car was gone. There's sweet one on ebay right now...

The 301 was a Pontiac - they did use all sorts of engines at the time which led to the lawsuit that resulted in the (in)famous disclaimer in the GM ads/literature that stated something along the lines of the cars are made of components from a number of sources/etc etc...

 

["Turbo-T"]

I don't think my delta didn't even have an olds engine in it. It had a 301 (stock my grandfather ordered it from olds) in it which I think was a pontiac motor. I guess for a few years GM was using motors from other divisions on multiple platforms.

Yep, starting in 1977 GM was putting Pontiac engines in Oldsmobiles....they were also putting Chevy engines in Pontiacs, Buick engines in Oldsmobiles, Oldsmobile engines in Buicks, etc. I still recall my mother had a 79 Cutlass with a 3.8 n/a engine and two of my friends had 82 and 86 Grand Prix's with the same engine.

I even heard at one time GM was sued by people complaining they had started bastardizing all the cars by putting other makes engines in them. Which was nothing new considering they started that in '71 when they were putting the inline Chevy six in Pontiac Venturas and Firebirds, and then in Olds and Buicks when the Omega and Apollo came out in '73. But as mentioned the swapping didn't really take off until '77.

I myself had an '81 Olds Delta 88 2 door, medium brown metallic with cream cloth interior, had power windows and a nice stereo in it. It had the tire smoking 307 with 200-4R auto. Got it for free and fixed the carb and drove it a year before joining the service. Very solid car. Had 175k on it and was still running strong when my dad sold it. It was sort of ugly and big but if I still had it today I'd probably fix it up, redo the exhaust, pull the 307 and drop a bigger engine it.

 

[BlackoutDrunk]

Actually just thinking about it today, I was looking around online to see if I could find a 79 Delta 88 two door. I would even want the same crappy light blue color that my car used to be. Not many out there and yeah it wasn't pretty but it would bring back the glory days and make me feel like a kid again.

 

[57loboy]

Not sure if it's a real Holiday 88 coupe as there aren't shots of the interior, but the color is exactly what you're wishing for. Are the rims on your wish list too?:wink:
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[BlackoutDrunk]

that's the color and the car except I didn't have the chrome, white leather or rims. Yeah those rims aren't my style. Nice find.

 

[turbofish38]

Here are a couple of pics I took awhile back from one of my boneyard tours. I don't know what the Holiday package or option consisted of but this 1979 Delta had the buckets and floorshift and a Holiday nameplate on the dash. No other external markings. I dont look in every Olds but this is the only Holiday I've seen as far as the 77-85 B-bodies go. 85 was the last year for the big coupes anyway.

 

[turbofish38]

Did anybody notice that the wheelstanding Pace Car has the wrong mirrors? Those look like the 86-90 Caprice mirrors. Those are Chevy mirrors anyway. Way too ugly and look out of place on the B and G bodies IMO. What was Chevy thinking?

 

[BlackoutDrunk]

That interior looks pretty cool. My car was not a holiday88. I had luxurious velour and a bench seat. The "magic" I mentioned earlier went down in the front seat, didn't even have to move to the back. Man I miss big luxury cars.

I didn't notice the mirrors I was too busy thinking how cool it was that a big heavy car could put some air under the front tires!

 

[57loboy]

Turbofish - that is exactly the interior for the Holiday 88s... I've always liked those buckets and the console in the B-body. Just try to find any of those parts now! I recall that HotRod magazine had profiled a Caprice coupe (notchback style) where they put the buckets and console in with the Vette TPI engine and IROC rims...looked cool!

 

[kenny]

I had a small block El Camino in high school. It got worn out HARD by a GN. I bought a T shortly after.