1984 Oldsmobile Hurst Olds: Regular Car Reviews
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The official car of “I wanted a GNX but this will do.”
"Eh at least it's still R E C T A N G L E C A R"
The GNX only existed in 1987.
The regular Grand National existed in 1984, and made significantly more power. That would make this Hurst/Olds the official car of 'there's no replacement for displacement'.
No it was the official car of I wanted a cutlass ciera but the ciera GT wasn’t out yet the trans am wasn’t good enough
@@dafirnz the 87 GNX had a faster 0-60 time than the corvette @ 4.7 sec (Car n driver 87). That turbo v6 made a good amount of torque 360ftlbs.
GNX is way cooler, everybody say it together "BOOST". Class dismissed...
The official car of "press analyze to begin".
I was trying to figure out why I was seeing this but I didn't have Premiere Pro open 🤣🤣
I really hope it was intentional. Only makes it that much better.
Let's do the warp stabilize again.
"Yo dawg, I heard you like gear levers , so I put a gear lever on your gear lever, so you can gear lever while you gear lever..."
Lmafo classic 🤣🤣🤣👌👌
Great, now I'm starting to feel nostalgic for Pimp My Ride.
😂😂😂
"It had a 307 making 140hp."
Yeah, it was pathetic.
"This one has a 403 in it"
Nice!
"...making 185hp."
_(indescribable facial contortions)_
I had an ‘84 Delta 88 coupe with the 307. Not a bad engine; better than the 440/460/455s I’d been shoving unspeakable gallons of gas into since I sold my Corvair.
Yeah I was hoping he was going to at 200bhp, but nah. It was the 80's!
@@charlesjames1442 I have the same car, I'm gonna chime in a little about the their performance: when you get on the highway, you need the WHOLE onramp. (although my kickdown is hit or miss, so that might have a little to do with it)
The 84 Hurst Olds had a 180 horsepower version of the 307, not the base 140 horsepower.
The 5 horsepower difference doesn't tell the story of what an improvement the 403 is. The 307 was still terrible.
My '87 Regal came stock with an Oldsmobile 307. The base version with 140hp/~200ft lbs. Very slow engine. 12-13 second 0-60 when I got it in 2008. BUT. It was as reliable as the rising sun.
Oldsmobile cutlass the official car of "Sir could you please step out of the vehicle?"
Accurate!
My dad got pulled over like 3x in one. My mom drove it once. Cop just looked at her and shook his head. Your just asking for trouble
@@devinbender8428 when my older brother left on appointment he asked me if I wanted his, My Mon was like "absolutely not."
Wish I had a cutlass ngl.
@Dave K cutlasses were for a few years the most stolen car in America. Combine that with popular at the time looks and you'd end up finding them driven by unsavory types who may have bought or stolen the car though unsavory means.
@Dave K just like he said in the video. “It’s the car for the guy who like to think he’s a race car driver” that’s why my dad bought it.
Before trading it in for a Monte Carlo SS. Which was even more of a Cop Magnet because “Race Car”
The 84 Hurst/olds. If the makers of Guitar Hero made a "race car".
Haha, clever comment and excelent analogy
Wow, this totally nails the sentiment!
Now I'm frightened to see what the Dragonforce version of this car would be.
“We’re always looking back to the past because the future gives no clear indication of promise.”
One of the best lines ever.
Only things this Cutlass is missing:
- Viper Alarm stickers on the front windows
- The Club stretched across the steering wheel
It had a viper alarm when I got it. Got gremliny
"Protected by Viper. Stand Back!"
"bad boy club" sticker on the back window too
Maybe Ziebart logos in the quarter windows.
"Transmission Theater" is a good name for a band.
Dream Theater when they sell-out and start making songs short enough and marketable enough for radio
Yeah when ZZ Top starts a variety show at their retirement home. "Transmission Theater".
It's a weird prog band that does Joy Division covers.
@@marmite8959 They tried that already with songs like You Not Me; it didn't stick, and now they're old farts.
@@stereoroid 👍😜👍
That gauge cluster says manly and “I piss with the door open”
you don't?
Whoop whoop
Old habit from when your PO had to watch.
As corny as it sounds, I have a thing for malaise era “performance” cars. They are all stuck in the shadow of the more iconic cars that we all know and cherish. It’s like uncovering a lost treasure trove of forgotten history from a bygone era.
The craziest thing is just how many are gone now.
Back in the late 70's and early 80's the Oldsmobile Cutlass was the most popular car in america, but how many do you see on the road today?
@@CrapeCraft that's true but when i do see one of the cutlasses or any of the 70s colonnade's....i always smile and think good on you man. 👏
A couple hundred dollars in parts would make them scalding fast to match the name...
I have a 53 Chevy gasser that I’ve had since I was a kid, but I daily a 76 Monte Carlo..
the malaise era cars RULE.. they are still cheap, they have the last gasps of American style in the auto industry.. their only downfall is that their (kinda) slow and they get shit gas mileage.. both of those can be fixed..
Just enough horsepower to get them into the crusher and onto store shelves in the form of pop cans.
Goddamn Mr. Regular, I didn't need that whole time travel to the past speech.... Now I'm in an existential crisis again
Isn't it weird how that *keeps* happening when we come back this channel?
The official car of "Hey look at me everyone, my automatic transmission is so poor, I have to shift for it. Whats that? Get a Manual you say? But I only have two feet."
Those shifters made street racing that car much easier back then.
@@lawnmowermanlawnmowerman9930 Admittedly GM column shifters felt like party favor puzzles about to snap under your hand and probably 'miss shifts' to the extent it matters in one of those autos. :) (And if those hold gears for you it's not useless, I guess. Manual would just be happier for me though. )
In a car with a semi-manual valve body transmission, or at least a snappy shift kit, these shifters were useful for drag racing. In this car, it's just a novelty.
That’s any column shift, period.
@@OllamhDrab I agree on the manual since my truck is a 5 speed
Olds are so old now that later models are considered as 'classic'.
Honestly, I think they kind of deserve to be. I like the styling on that last decade of Oldsmobiles.
I’m not going to claim that they were groundbreaking, but they had simple, clean lines not unlike the Lexus and Acura models they were emulating.
@ TBustah
They weren’t emulating anyone. Aside from the Integra and maybe the SC400 and of course the NSC-coupes that were far more cutting edge, Lexus and Acura were bastions of conservatism.
The Legend was sporty but in a late 80s sports car kind of way (944, Prelude, etc) and their sedans like the LS400 and Vigor or TL were just more luxurious versions of their plebeian Honda and Toyota stablemates from a style perspective.
Look at the Aurora from which the Intrigue and Alero derived their looks from. It looked like nothing else on the road, yet it wasn’t offensive like the over the top Ford Taurus or just plain weird like the Infinity J30.
They took Oldsmobile from their old man car image and IMHO succeeded in making cars for the 21st century.
And that’s where you’ll always kind the innovation-with the underdogs. Honda and Toyota were resting on their laurels in the 90s. They didn’t need to make exciting cars because boring and reliable sold well.
But as the 2000s and 2010s went on, they were being outcompeted not only by resurgent domestic manufacturers, but by Korean ones who were once considered a joke.
Now you see the loud styling in Honda and Toyota. Now you see them offering leases to move cars, or sending them to rental lots and taxi fleets.
But Oldsmobile was redundant. Like Saturn, its sales successes (you still see a ton of Aleros on the road) displaced other GM products rather than making inroads into the market. Someone had to go, and it wasn’t going to be the “excitement” division or the one the Chinese were all flocking to.
*NSX
@@Bartonovich52 I didn’t mean that they were emulating the STYLING of Lexus and Acura, per se, but more the CONCEPT behind those brands: quality and luxury at a reasonable price. It was not a new idea, but it was what was in vogue at the time. Oldsmobile also happened to have clean lines like Lexus and Acura, but I wasn’t suggesting that they were copying their style.
Not gonna lie, the Cutlass still catch my attention.
The Mexican "Eurosport" variant is so cool!!
"Its slow. All it does is make noise."-exactly how I feel about econo boxes with fart cannons.
The sad thing is those econoboxes are probably still making just as much power with half the engine and half the weight
@@QuakeGamerROTMG And also half the fuel.
Fuck it, a quarter of the fuel.
- yours truly, 6-speed honda fit owner, currently redlining in 2nd then shifting to 6th.
jeep grand cherokee 97' with a 5.2L is about 220 😂
A ten year old 1.8 civic has 140 horsepower with a 6 speed manual is lighter and faster than this olds
If this is a muscle car then my BMW e46 330d is a muscle car😂😂😂...
I'm the original owner of an '87 442. You can ridicule these cars all you want, but I assure you in the 35 years I have had my 442, so many people have wanted to buy the car and everywhere I go I get compliments and lots of turned heads. My car is a one respray T-top survivor with 122,000 miles. It gets respect for its looks and condition, not how fast it runs the 1/4 mile. These cars were never marketed as race cars and the 2400 people who bought '87 442s, or the people who bought the '84 Hurst option that year knew what they were getting. It's a '80s personal luxury car with a little more HP, a transmission with different shift points, stiffer suspension and a 3:73 rear with an 8.5 ring gear over a Cutlass Supreme, which by the way was the best selling car in America for several years in the '80s. Speaking for myself, I never bought the car to drag race idiots down public streets. I bought the car 35 years ago out of an Oldsmobile showroom with six miles on it to enjoy it for the rest of my life and have done a good job of that to this point. Guys stopped buying new Oldsmobiles to race in 1971.
All those turned heads are because it’s old, not because it’s a good car
The pothole splash at 9:28. You can see Mr. REGULAR apologize, and the driver wave it off. Nice.
That scene was something out of a commercial or a movie!
I think that may be the Roman, but either way. Class act!
@@TheSlipperyBrick I see him there now too.
Roman.
Both guys are very respectful and not intentionally abusive of the cars. Solid folk.
Superbly written. Love your stuff as always guys!
Josh what are you doing here?
@@ThePoodleStrudel Looking at a video on a 1984 Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds I think.
Like #69... Nice.
Never expected to find you here!
"when worlds collide"
Man the philosophy of nostalgia hit hard on this one. Nail on head.
This Gen Xer is still into current indie music, but Lithium Deep Tracks is like a security blanket of flashback laden nostalgia.
1984 Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds: Because you want the world to know you have a name-brand transmission but you don’t want the world to know it’s automatic.
imagine letting this guy review the car you love and listening to him rip it apart
I couldn't agree with you more I have a G-Body Chevy Malibu with RPO f41 sport suspension sway bar package and in stock form with 14 inch tires that point 84 on the skidpad that's pretty good for a vehicle between 1978 and 88 I agree with you 100% G bodies are awesome
I'm pretty sure he warns them that they may not like what he has to say. All you have to do is watch a few of his videos to know that. Besides, If all he did is sing praises it woulden't be a review, it would be a circlejerk. You woulden't listen to a film critic that always gives 10/10 reviews or the food critic that always rates restaurants 5 stars, now would you?
My problem is he has a blind spot for certain *terrible* cars that his hipster proclivities will absolutely not let him be objective about. Much like a rotten tomatoes critic giving an awful film a great score when the audiences love it.
@@TeaInTheMorning-we2kh have u
Had a g body or a friend that
Has 1ive had mine 4 21 years
@@jonpaulschafer1871 no
I can smell that headliner peeling off 😅
As someone around the same age as Mr. Regular, I knew it would be late 90's Hondas, holy shit. Also, whenever he gets existential about the past it fucks me up. Good job, sir.
Damn RCR you went and did it, you hit me right in the high school with this car. And you even walked me through it. Thanks guys. Edit: I wanted this car in 84, and I STILL want it. See how it works....
Idk I'd happily drive that car. It seems cool AF even if that transmission pissed him off. It's an interesting concept and best of all if you don't want to deal with it you can just throw it in D and it will drive like normal
The past is always hot summers and cloudless skies. Dads new car was the finest thing on the road no matter what it was and life was uncomplicated. I used to live there around 1972 but that place and pretty much everything in it are long gone.
Yep, It's always the summer of 1980 for me.
Thanks Obama 😞
Man I will _never_ sigh wistfully for my dad’s ‘81 Escort L wagon. Fuck that noise. I have more nostalgia for the ‘74 Civic my parents had, and that goddamn heap gave me a trauma phobia of blue cars for a year after we got in a wreck with it.
i'm slowly transitioning from 2005 to 2014
@@brosefmcman8264 Fuck Obama! 🤣
I'll keep my freedoms guns and money and he can keep the " change "
I'm all set with Socialism
My head Hurst for trying to figure out that transmission.
Hahahaha very funny dork. Jk jk
Dad jokes 🙂
Buud dom tssssss!!
A three-handled slot machine that never pays off? Caesar's Entertainment might be interested....
Not really for me although 4th gear and Overdrive have stumped me
That last 5 min was a eloquently written monologue of what nostalgia is and will become in the current day. I can't lie my owning an 88 Supercharged MR2 and loving the 80s to bits even though it is older than me by 12 years is an interesting phenomenon. It's almost as if I'm trying to live the life my parents had in the 80s telling myself it was a better time.
1995-2005 nostalgia cars are going to be interesting because of all the new electronics and regulations since then and the rapid changes in manufacturing during that period.
Mr. Regular nails it again on many points, most crucial of which is how companies are marketing on our collective sense of nostalgia. But also on the car itself.
I was there in 1983. I was 17 and my best friend got a 1983 Hurst Olds with 3000 miles on it. They had 180hp, not 140, but were dog slow. However, in 1983 all the cars were dog slow compared to today or the even cars from a few years after this was new. I’m not defending the Hurst Olds. I’m giving perspective from having lived through the malaise era and everything since.
What this video and vehicle bring back for me are good memories of my friend. He was killed by a drunk driver on December 4th, 1984. He wasn’t in the Olds. He was driving a different car. He was a good friend and I still miss him. He would’ve loved RCR. We’d have laughed and talked about all the cars on this channel. That was our connection, cars.
Thank you, Mr. Regular and Roman and the owner of the Olds for this nostalgic trip down memory lane.
"Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds. If you bought little, solar-powered, LED lights to shove into the dirt by your walkway... here's your damn car."
Fucking genius.
meh.
Absolute genius.
I thought owners of small effective japaneese cars had these lights. Prius, Hondas.
I felt that
That has got to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard. The narrator is clearly an idiot and probably wasn't even born when this car was produced
*Click analyze to begin.*
Yeah, Mr. Regular is analyzing us all.
I still want a 1987 442. It reminds me of my parents 1984 2 door Cutlass. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug
I couldn't click analyze, did it begin?
It never stopped beginning, friend.
It is kind of what this channel is about. Cars are just a "vehicle" for the analysis.
The camera shot at 6:40 is really nice. Kinda looks like a 3rd-person camera, following the player on a game
11:55 is similar. Really well done i have to say.
That mode I use in GTA when I want to just listen to the music and I'm playing with the camera mode, not on a mission.
That's called a rear 3/4 shot, buddy
Agreed. Love that angle
I'm surprised Doug DeMuro hasn't reviewed this. The quirkiness is off the charts.
His hoity toity ass would shit all over it! Doug should stick to BMWs and Maseratis.
@ Ryan Gallager
You just can’t handle the truth.
Pretty much everything he says is spot on. Like.. what were they thinking?
@@Bartonovich52 You just mad
@@RyanGallager I mean, you can't deny that 80's american cars were hot garbage (except for a handful of cars). Other than that, he has many words of praise for modern american offerings.
@@bombardier6033 Competitive for its time, in its era -- everything was low horsepower, low compression and slow within this time frame unfortunately.
The bottled nostalgia definitely explains all the video game HD remasters of the past 6 years.
"I'm remembering the good ol days!"
Mr. Regular
"There has never been a more succinct lie in the history of childhood than 'Vacation Bible School.'"
👏👏👏💯💯💯
I enjoyed VBS growing up, but there was nothing vacation about it!
Or "Hey! This summer camp is awesome! We get super soaker day! We field tripped to the aquarium! Now we can end the day with... religion homework"
Those nuns really knew how to break your will, boy.
Hey, I was getting play at VBS lol
This is the official car of being angry at Sunoco for not carrying Lucky Strikes.
Come on, any other brand was roughly as proficient at bringing people closer to the afterlife. :)
I was a happy child in 1984. Peak 80's was easily a great time to be alive in America.
Came for the car review, stayed for the PSYC 101. Thank you. Hit me right where I needed it.
Some of your best work yet. This piece took me on a mental journey to yesteryear. I forgot you were reviewing a car when you gave your soliloquy about nostalgia. You had me thinking back to my care free high school days as a junior and senior in 1998-2000.
Some things don’t change even though we do.
I love G body’s so much 😭😂
Ehh in my eyes G bodies are just cheesy Hollywood remakes of 68-72 A bodies but to each their own.
And everybody else according to some of these resale prices.
Factory 84 Hurst Olds came with a 307 HO (high output) motor with 180 horsepower. GM did the same with the Monte Carlo SS with its 305 HO motor which also had 180 horsepower.
Both shit motors!
The official car of Big Daddy Snake demanding road head, but that finding the best shifter configuration for it was more like playing Myst than romance
Nostalgia is why toyota brought back the supra name tag. 90's kids are in their 30's now, and have a bit more disposable income.
"90's kids are in their 30s now"
Damn...I feel old.
@@hippiebits2071 "...and have more disposable income." Haha, yeah right! What world does this guy live in?
The people in the 90s who were in their 30s couldn’t afford a Supra either. People forget that the last few years of the Supra the sticker price was $50k. The people who loved them couldn’t afford them and the people who could afford them had better options.
Always so impressed with the quality of these reviews and the almost poetic nature of the writing of these.
The writing absolutely shines here.
"And it's gonna happen to us...", chilling and all too truthful.
It already has. The Radwood effect is in full swing and people from our generation are paying out the nose for low mile,mint condition examples of remarkably mediocre cars.
Capitolized nostalgia is already happening with all the jdm classics that are getting modern revivals, actually it's not even just jdm, Fords doing it with the bronco
Ford has been doing it since 2005 when they simultaneously launched the retro-bodied Mustang and the first Ford GT since 1968. Kinda stole Chrysler's move after seeing the success of the PT Cruiser.
It feels like American automakers latch onto nostalgia harder than others, probably because Asian and German automakers are quicker to claim the future.
@@kevinmiller6693 and with launch of that car, muscle car designs were never "unique" again...
@ Johnalogue
Asian manufacturers are pretty conservative. Except until very recently... the design of cars like the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord didn’t really change in 25 years. You walk up to one.. is that a 1997? 2007? 2017?
And with the exception of the Chris Bangle BMWs.. German automakers are the same or even more traditional. Audi and VW have been making the same clean jelly bean designs since 1999 where you couldn’t tell a $100,000 Phaeton from a $17,000 City Jetta. Mercedes doubled down on the retro-futuristic look starting with the 1995 E Class. BMWs were over a decade behind, style wise with cars like a 1993 E30 resembling a 1979 Toyota Corolla.
@@kevinmiller6693 you could go back a few more years to that Thunderbird they made for all the people who think the jitterbug errs on the side of too risqué
Oh god and remember that SSR abortion that Chevy dragged out?
Here's my shifter
Here's my other shifter
Heres my other other shifter
*Darryl-Approved*
What you said about nostalgia really speaks to me. In 2001 in high school I wanted a Camaro SS SLP with t-tops. When I had the money in 2015 I saw one for sale and felt 16 again. But I didn't buy it because it was an old car now with likely leaky t-tops and an aged interior. And as much as I wanted that feeling of finally getting one, sometimes the past is best left in the past.
Every so often I reconnect with a buddy from high school over Facebook and he has a whole bunch of "remember when" stories about when we were awkward 14-15 year olds. And I just can't do it. I gotta move forward.
I had no nostalgia for 4th Gen Camaros, I just wanted a cool car preferably with an LS of some sort. I got a 02 Camaro Z28, not an SS, but the previous owner put all the SLP mods on it. Very fun car nostalgia or no nostalgia.
I loved seeing it hit a Philadelphia pot hole and all the water hit the exhaust and made a big smoke cloud.
Man, that point about yearning for the past hit way too hard on a rainy Monday morning.
yeah man I almost started crying
So damn true, and it's raining in my neck of the woods as well.
@@ebincd2362 I put my phone down and looked outside onto the gray and rainy day. Pondering how i got here and why am i here...
Sigh...
Everyone east of Michigan, and over 30 years of age, who watched this today probably feels the same.
@@dongately2817 or in Michigan... Lol
I don’t care what you say, wrap it in a G-Body and I’ll love it. Like how most people are about ranch dressing.
It didn’t take much to put these things over 300 horse. Thats what everyone trashing them forgets. Nobody I knew who had a G Body left it stock.
"Your memories are a commodity". This is fantastic. It's gotta be the deepest episode yet.
I was hoping for a gnx but couldn't afford it so i settled for my 84 hurst and i love it. T tops, lightnings work well. Just a great care to cruise in.
of everything here, I'm the most impressed how well the panels line up and the gaps, that front nose long shot looked clean.
Thanks
These were actually nice and solidly built cars for the era. The Monte Carlo/Grand Prix/Regal/Cutlass were quiet and comfortable cars (in stock form), unlike economy imports of the time. Some people ask why anybody bought these at the time when imports were "so much better," but the thing is, imports weren't better, just a different set of compromises. Imports other than Mercedes were so lightly built they made you feel like you were driving a tin roller-skate. Some found them "fun to drive," some didn't. The GM G-Body cars were well insulated, the seats were soft and comfortable, you could still hear the radio at 70 MPH, and the AC was cold. Relatively speaking, these were like riding inside a cloud. It was a time when you couldn't "have it all" in one car like you can today, so you had to choose your priorities.
This video has one of the best summation segments ever written
And yet, I still want this car. I’m 17, but something about this old man chainsmoker retired insurance agent car really appeals to me.
Guilty! Vaporwave and chill wave 🌊 all the time between my ears.
These cars were popular for a lot more reasons than nostalgia. This was a popular and competent platform in its day, even Brock Yates mentioned it in his book on the American Automobile Industry. In 1983, the rebirth of performance was just getting underway. The Mustang GT had 175 hp, the F Bodies had about that much and even the Corvette was not much over 200. Just a few years earlier performance had died completely, and these cars were the first steps out of the malaise era.
You really have to put yourself back in this era to understand, in the same way that the original Rocket 88 in ‘49 was exciting to people but would be the slowest car on the road today.
The Lightning Rods were gimmicky, but the rest of the car hit the mark (for its time). It wasn’t a sad look back.
Also, I’m pretty sure that the 307 used in this model had a unique cam and tune and put out 180 hp. 0-60 was under 9 seconds which people took notice of in ‘83/‘84.
Yeah, everywhere I read, the stock 307 had 180. Also my mom's 77 Trans Am had the Olds 403 which had 185. Not competitive now, competitive for its day.
Under 10 seconds is super fast
@@stephenmoutafis5587 it sure was back then.
@UC9N65CTOsSzQx6OnRAzTBSw I have that issue too! The cover had all 3 on the cover at night.
Olds: always looking to the past, because the future has no clear indication of promise.....great line
There is promise problem is the future never delivers, see flying cars
Electric cars.
The future is delivering. Far to quickly for a lot of people.
Wow, the 80s was a dark automotive era. It left us early 90s high schoolers with extremely few palatable used car options.
Same for us early 2000's high schoolers. Part of the reason so many kids in my generation resorted to 90's 120hp Honda hatchbacks and such, the other reason being that was around the time the first "Fast and the Furious" movie came out which taught every 15-20 year old with a Honda, Mitsubishi, ect that they were one oversized wing, fart can, and cheap nitrous oxide kit away from owning race car.
Much better than what we mid 80's high schoolers had to choose from.
A 74 dodge dart with a slant six and rotted out floors? Where do I sign up?!
Yes that's why he had no right to shit all over this somewhat cool and legit American car from the 80s. These G bodies, the Camaro/Firebird, and the Fox Body Mustang and the T-bird are all we had for "desirable" domestic 80s cars and there he is berating it for not having some blip blip short throw evenly spaced manual gearbox like some Civic
@ M Scuba
What was the problem with putting a short throw evenly spaced manual gearbox on it? It’s not like no cars of the era had one.
The real reason was that GM still thought it was the 60s. Where the 400 gross horsepower big block V8 only put 100 actual horsepower to the ground after going through a high stall torque converter, two speed slush box, 4.10 gears, and bias ply tires not realizing that it was like 50 horsepower now for these small block emissions choked tall geared cars.
@@Bartonovich52 have you ever driven a car with a high performance automatic with a real high performance torque converter?? Judging from your comments, I’m guessing not.
Check out your local dragstrip, I’m betting 98%are auto. The other 2% are evenly split between the guys with clutch problems or other mechanical failures, and the ones who can actually drive a manual competitively.
There is a reason the fastest cars on the track are autos. A performance auto can shift far faster than a manual. Even Ronnie Sox (Mr 4 speed) said towards the end of his racing career the advantages of a manual trans were gone with the advancement of the performance torque converters.
If you don’t know who Ronnie Sox is, turn off the fast and furious movie and do a little research.
I built out an olds 403 motor for my 85 Cutlass back in 1990. Spec's, we're based on a Dave Smith Oldsmobile setup. 9 to 1 compression, pump gas it was supposed to make about 410 horsepower and 440 foot-pounds of torque. My Cutlass weighed over 3,800 lbs, and I was able to get it to run 12.7 in the quarter mile. When I wanted to go faster, instead of sending the heads back to Dave Smith, I used a local guy who then proceeded to break everything. I loved that freaking car. I did manage to convert my vhs tapes we filmed at the track over to video. I used a TCI transmission mount kit to mate a 700 R4 to the engine, 7.5" 342 rear end, which I broke a couple times, along with the transmission. I was able to pull 1.6 second 60-foot times with that combination. I initially was using the computer-controlled Quadrajet Carburetor, that was modified by the carb shop. I later switch things up a little bit.
3:45 because he’s so good looking and charming that you can’t be the one who tells him that he ain’t gonna make it.
... and he didn’t make it.
8:15 it was exactly this moment that my PC unironically froze for 5 seconds
Username checks out
(yes, I know this is not reddit)
@@artbk thank you this really cracked me up
My pc ironically froze, you're lucky
"...memories riddled with people you miss like a klutz misses the winning free throw..." holy crap, that just pierced my soul.
The writing and delivery of RCR always blows me away. Thank you
Hurst Olds: The official car of “my place is the third trailer on the right, just past the dumpster.”
nah, that distinction belongs to El Camino owners
@@harveylong5878 Nope. They’re back of the trailer park, next to the porta pots.
Yep. They have to roll past Mr IROC-Z’s double wide thats next to Mrs Milligan’s prized begonias and Mr James’s manicured lawn because HE’S the King of the Trailer Park.
💖IT!!
Americans: manuals are too complicated and not comfortable for driving!
Also Americans: *this car*
We don’t think they’re too complicated, but most American car buyers are looking for a smoother and more optimized shift (which is where an automatic or CVT comes into play). I still prefer a standard transmission (with the exception of off-road vehicles since an automatic is going to do way better off road), but not everybody here really needs excitement when driving, they just want something to get them around.
Yeah no, so many GM cars came in manuals in '84 and for the next several years. Including the Cutlass Calais, '88 FWD Cutlass Supreme and others.
My favorite year for these was 1983, in black with the 15th anniversary graphics -- I wanted one of these really badly, I loved the look, they were cool for their time period. In a way, there's a part of me that would still love to have one of these.
that transmission seems so easy to learn. i think the owner explained it really well. i love it
Thanks
Even now, as a 24 year old, my nostalgia is being capitalized on as we re enter the manual transmission renaissance
Wow manual
It's certainly a sign of the times when manual transmissions are nostalgic.
no there isn't a renaissance they are quickly disappearing.
MT Renaissance? Are you kidding?
It’s on life support. Try and find a MT car (one with a clutch pedal) that isn’t a sports car.
@@Bartonovich52 there are people whining that the Civic Si isn’t offered with an auto. Shameful.
8:12 "Click Analyse to begin." Yeah, that's why I clicked on this video.
This is an iconic body style from gm. The regal/ gnx and the Monty Carlo
One of your most well written pieces in a while, love this one!!
That thing is higher off the ground than my XC70.
I love it !
The Hurst Olds was the greatest crossover Oldsmobile ever made! 😯
same. Cars are too low to the ground today. Would love this car with a better engine in it.
@@povilasmarveloustv3810 There's no shortage of cars upcoming or current that reject "low to the ground" design, though? Everything is an SUV now.
Odds are they put HD springs up front for the 455 and then had to do the same for the rear . They do not sit that high originally.
Nice to see one that Dr Crunk Juice didn't slap 26s on and fk up the whole situation 😂
Goddammit man!!!!!!! DR DRUNK JUICE IS THE BEST FUCKIN THING I'VE EVER HEARD!!!!!!!!! I laughed so hard I dropped my bowl. You sir are a true genius 👏🙌🙏
How you know i was gonna do the same ... Except 28s 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😅
@@jermainec2462 Ah yes, because "I want this car that already rides rough, because leaf springs, to ride even worse! Steering, suspension travel? Pfft, dunno what that is!"
@@NaruSanavai and all this is tru ... I'll have to swap them out with air suspension because them GM leaf springs gon tear yo ass up 😂😂🤣...
Man. This is the best you’ve done. Amazing
I love how well written are the existencial crises on your videos, they blend perfectly with a car.
That ending of “whoever makes a car that captures the nostalgia of late 90’s Honda rules the streets”, is probably gonna be accurate. I was born in ‘96 but I’ve got friends that have owned those Hondas and Acuras. I don’t think it’s possible to truly capture the raw feelings those cars gave (and probably still give) people, but it’d be interesting to see a manufacturer try. On that note though, I wonder if there’s any chance of something like that happening for 2000’s or 2010’s cars? Like, nostalgia is a cycle like mr. regular said. Yet, I feel like we’ve moved so far forward with technology and safety and such that at some point, wouldn’t chasing what you had in the past just be chasing what you already have now? If that makes any sense (and ignoring the obvious like self driving cars)
Me personally I was only four years old when my car that I own was originally sold. I love that thing. It was a simpler time it was modern technology in a car with abs and four wheel disk brakes and traction control and has a sunroof and heated seats. But it also isn't too many electronics to go wrong. Not really sure how I can be nostalgic for a time I don't remember but I somehow am. I really see it as "that's when they really knew how to make a car". It was everything you needed and nothing else. You didn't need collision warning systems because you weren't distracted by your phone. You didn't need parking sensors and blind spot monitors because the car had good visibility. I can't ever really see myself in a new vehicle in a way I see them as a step backwards not forwards and I think if a lot of people took the time to go back and drive a car from 15-25 years ago and daily it and work on it themselves, they'd feel the same way.
damn this is the earliest ive ever been to an rcr video, all it took was an all night gaming session
Late night gym sesh + insomnia for me 😂
Overnight work as a grocery stocker over here
9.5 hr shift at 8 am, there is time for rcr
Same
Regular religiously drops vids at 4-5 am. Dont know how that afftects the algorithm.
Wasn't expecting a life lesson or two from the latest RCR, but goddamn am I glad I stopped by. Nice work!
Here’s some nostalgia. In 1978 I bought a ‘75 W30 Hurst Olds Cutlass Supreme equipped with a 455 and the dual gate shifter.
I acquired this car from a Doctor, he bought it for his son. His boy received more speeding tickets than dad liked. Black with gold stripes and T-tops. It was really fast and every girl wanted to ride in my car. Thanks for the video.
Herburgle Winga Dinga.
You nailed it! As a 90's Honda kid, now in my late 40's rapidly closing in on 50, I'm not ashamed to admit I'm still lusting for Honda to do a modern take on the CRX. And no, that pathetic attempt with the hybrid CRZ DID NOT count!
"...bodies that don't ache"
i felt that in my soul
Wow. Every time I watch one of these you just. Hit it outta the park.
5:00
That is actually a really good tape deck.
Some modern speakers and even a Wal-Mart amp and sub and its damn decent. Plus it's not 1987 anymore. no one steals tape decks.
Dude listening to the Vice City soundtrack and retro new wave out of it sounds amazing
All 80s-90s Delco tape decks were good... except when the tape deck stopped working. You just went to a wrecker and got another one for $20.
I had people ask if I had a subwoofer on stock 1986 speakers. Fidelity definitely wasn’t there, but power was.
@@Bartonovich52 it's the EQ unit. I swapped from the standard tape deck to that and it was 2x louder on its own, no sub.
I like it when you went “Oooooooh” when shifting gears, felt like I was shifting 😂
Beautiful said. It is not about the car. It is about wanting what was. Magnificent piece. I cried. Not about the car, about remembering.
Once again, very well written and executed. Excellent work
when you realise a 1986 Renault 5 GT with a 1.4 Turbo can burn this thing off the road in both 0-60 and quarter-mile.
Is this why Dalton drove a Mercedes in Roadhouse and not a "Detroit car"?
~ 10 years ago I was cruising up the East Coast in an ‘88 Lincoln Town Car; two tons of the finest 60s inspired styling Detroit had to offer, powered by 302 cubic inches of iron. The girl sitting next to me asked, “Is it fast?”
I chuckled to myself, and answered:
“Lord no.”
Don´t say "Renault" in the comment section of an American UA-cam channel, you´ll atract the Boomers and start with the "But reliability, Le Crap, slow...bla bla bla"
haha it was a cheeky comment, but true tho :)
Only if you brought your Hurst Olds to France.
Sagging headliner! Ahhhhh Classic GM! Love it. 👍😊👍
Bruh, it's a 35 year old car.
My 7 year old Range Rover had a sagging headliner too.
@@ChevyCamaroIsBetter Yeah. I get THAT, but my 1977 Buick Electra Limited had a VERY similar degree of "fall-out" in ---- 1984!
@@Jowurel it yearns for the earth where it belongs, tired of all the repairs and mundane hassle.
My '94 Park Avenue continued that sagging headliner. I used a stapler and stapled it back up and it looked like a buttoned ceiling.
Person: "Hey can you review my car? I really like it"
Mr. R: "Sure"
*Roasts your car for almost 15 minutes*
I mean part of them reviewing your car is to hear their roasts.
If I wanted a back rubbing "hell yea brutha" circle jerk, I'd go to a car show at the the local hosey.
While it wasnt a hurst olds... i spent the early days of my existence in an 84’ Olds cutlass with the exact same interior. I can still remember flipping tapes for my parents as they drove and hearing the click of the cassette and hiss of the tape as i would pick the chrome peeling off the trim on the doors Thank you for the nostalgia today Mr. Regular
Man I love those BF Goodrich Radial TAs lol
White letter tires are the shit
@@cosmo4698 без разницы! 😄 Кому-то нравится, кому-то нет.
@@MyOleg1969 I think something got lost in translation for you pal, "the shit" is something cool/stylish/hip, while just "shit" means bad/garbage/crap.
Does anybody realize how good this channel is? Brilliant. Insightful.
The Nr. 1 source to the REAL America, beyond Manhattan and Hollywood.
I think your the one late to the party😂
Yes
@@nyaheh5878 couldn’t have said it better myself. I had no idea what I was missing. The sarcasm is off the charts, and awesome.
@@GrotrianSeiler my friend showed me rcr back in 2018-2019 with the LS Winnebago and I was hooked from then on!
With that ground clearance, modern car journalists would insist this was an SUV.
My grandparents on both sides had Cutlass Supremes. I could smell the plastic and velour the whole time I watched this video. You successfully capitalized on my nostalgia