Re: Melling/Olds oil pump adapter kit update

Posted by BH On 2009/9/7 20:09:41

The move to Youngstown was supposed to permit expansion to produce the sedan and even a limousine (if you can picture the latter), but they only built coupes and convertible there for the first three years. For 1990, the company curtailed production of those two models and put all their effort on production of the sedan, which was a flop. Worse yet, the first 25 cars had to be rebodied due to all sorts of problems with the initial design.

The company tried to take what they learned from building sedans and apply that to a redesign of the convertible. I had left by then, but what rolled off the end of the line looked ungainly. I think only a dozen or so of those convertibles were built, but they were titled with whatever year it was that the car was sold.

In later years, the Avanti became little more than a skin job done on Camaros and Firebirds. The next step was based on the Mustang, but there's a litle problem with a Federal investigation of a Ponzi scheme.

That's all the more I wanna get into that.

I now return you to Packards.