Has anybody considered building a Hurst Hairy Olds replica?
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Has anybody considered building a Hurst Hairy Olds replica?
I've been kicking the idea around since I bought the die cast model of it several years ago. I think I know where there're a couple of basket case 442's in a junkyard that have floors and trunk gone, but fairly decent exterior sheet metal. Toranoda baskete cases seem to be fairly common, so outside of some basic fab work, why hasn't somebody done one?
I don't think I'd want to go the full blower route, but a pair of 425's or 455's fore and aft would make for a cool car show cruiser.
Opinions?
I don't think I'd want to go the full blower route, but a pair of 425's or 455's fore and aft would make for a cool car show cruiser.
Opinions?
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Everything pertaining to old cars is expensive. Try doing a big block Corvette or even Chevelle to current standards. I didn't read the entire link posted above yet but it looks more like a resto than a replica.
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I believe a restoration is taking a car back to the way it was originally manufactured. The Hurst Hairy Olds did not come off the showroom floor. This replica was built from scratch. I admire anybody doing an accurate restoration on any car but I don't see how that compares to actually building a replica of a very complicated car like the Hairy Olds.
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I believe a restoration is taking a car back to the way it was originally manufactured. The Hurst Hairy Olds did not come off the showroom floor. This replica was built from scratch. I admire anybody doing an accurate restoration on any car but I don't see how that compares to actually building a replica of a very complicated car like the Hairy Olds.
It's not at all hard to spend $100K or more restoring a rare muscle car to original condition, especially rarer ones with expensive low volume pieces. My point was/is, that I believe a dual engine '66 442 somewhat resembling the HHO could be build for a lot less money, especially if dead accuracy wasn't the priority, but rather getting something relatively in the same ballpark with toronado power front and rear, 4 slicks and a gold and black paint scheme.
Last edited by Solid Lifters; August 3rd, 2013 at 07:54 PM.
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In the last race of the original car, one of the engines failed and the car was impossible to control and crashed and almost crashed into a crowd. The original car was then destroyed. The original car had twin blown Olds engines and was quite an engineering feat. I don't think there is any way you could duplicate the car for $100,000. No question you can blow through $100,000 on a muscle car restoration especially if you have to buy the car. All you have to do is price stuff like some of the rare air cleaners, distributors and other parts.
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