Originally an Arizona Oldsmobilewhose home is with me, in Southern California. My philosophy has, is and will keep her evolving. I believe that the true essence of this classic muscle car comes from the relationship between her intended purpose and my instinctual desire to let her succeed in that purpose. Now I know if you read that over a few times it might just make sense. I basically don't create any limitations or boundaries when it comes to making her conform to providing me with whatever it is I want her to do for me. This of course is not always and in fact hardly ever an easy, cheap or quick thing to do. Sometimes I get pretty frustrated but that doesn't seem to be enough to make me quit. The bright sunshine filled side of the frustration is reciprocated in numerous other ways though. For example: The exhilarating pump of endorphin driven adrenaline shooting through your overly perceptive senses while stretching ahead of some other performance road machine after tilting hats and snickering at a red light turning green., or when a goldenish year old man stops in his tracks to smile and attentively watch you drive by, or when there is a note on your car with a phone number explaining that "if you ever want to sell her to please call me", or even when you get to your 300th "what size engine is in there?". Its all good. Yep, this car has quite a few stories some of which will only be known and appreciated by me yet I try to share whatever I can to keep the Oldsmobile Enthusiast alive and cranking and is one of the purposes of this private website. I religiously fill her with 76 gasoline and never less than 91 octane. I prefer a special mixture of Leaded 110 Octane and Un-Leaded 100 Octane Nascar Fuel which can be purchased (even in 55 gallon drums) from Griffins Union 76 Encino. Make sure to take a look at the very informative ins and outs of fuel they have on their website. DON'T USE AVIATION GASOLINE for example... it is designed to burn most efficiently at the low rpm range of only 2000.

In my book there are only 2 reasons to trailer a ride like this, one of which is good and the other is bad. This picture just so happens to be the latter but as I tried explaining above: this just means that something gets to be better than before which happens to be a completely rebuilt and souped up "BulletProof" 200-4R transmission by A.C.T. Performance. It lets me cruise 85 in overdrive at a smooth and efficient 2500 rpms up and down the Interstate 5 between Santa Barbara and San Diego to visit various clients, friends, family and especially any "Cruize" type of gatherings in SoCal. 

A fellow Oldsmobiler ran into me at Bobs Big Boy and told me that he took a picture of me driving the car by his business almost a year earlier. I gave him one of my email addresses (ISawYou@oldsmobile.net) and sure enough the next day the picture below arrived. It is pretty kewl when you find you have paparazzi after ya!

Have you ever seen the movie "King of the Mountain" with Dennis Hopper who plays this crazy street car racer who plows along a street called Mullholland Drive? Well Mullholland Drive just happens to be a street I grew up driving on and for a short time throughout high school and my early 20's I knew like the back of my hand. This is a picture at the top of Mullholland in a spot which I remember we called "The Pit Stop" because thats where we would pit stop for various reasons like the one I was there for that night... to make out. One thing we used it for back then is something that I am very against today and that was to down a 40oz or smoke a joint. Don't get me wrong... a nice sack of kind herb is a great thing and catching a beer buzz can be quite fun too but either of those mixed with car keys is just fucking stupid. We did a lot of stupid things but when it comes down to it we are all simply lucky to still be here today. We affectionately called our "click" "M.H.C." which stands for MullHolland Crew...hahaha...whats up fellas! Sandman, Doug-E-Fresh, Ash, Moot, Braden, Pete, Dita, Trista, Nick, Ozare, Kim, Mathias, Shariar, Mellisa, and all the rest of you hoodlums... Maybe some day we will all still hook up when we are 40 at "resovoir" like we spoke about back then... I think that gives us less than 10 years. Damn how time flys... almost as fast as an Oldsmobile Rocket. Anyway, you know when you are watching a movie or tv show and they are showing a road with an overview of a city? Well that is Mullholland... almost every time... so here is a "real life" picture of Mullholland with a really kewl car.

Here is an obligitory photo of her "tail" to "end this page... Nice hips eh?!