1972 remlinger olds
 

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no

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sorry the pics did not upload

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Sammy.....talk to Jeff, I believe he has a handle on the pic thingy.

RJ

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thanks R J i can't get my computer to resize the photo's i guess i will have to get my 8 yr old grandson to fix it LOL!!

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Isn't that the same car that Jerry Dover later owned?

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Is this it?

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Lets try this again

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yes it is the red convert that jim wheeler had that dover sr and jr drove.i own it now it has been in storage for about 28 years and has 39 street miles on it i am going to try to get the pics to come up.i put it on my facebook page but i can't get it downsized to put on class racer.

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I remember that car!!

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Sammy, I see you successfully uploaded the Oldsmobile photo of your old car...;)

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moose i got it by the hardest thanks for your help now i will try to upload a current pic from my computer.

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Watched the car make some passes at Magnolia Drag Strip back in the old days

Hammer

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I took that picture, on my honeymoon... At the '72 U.S. Nats in Indy..... We are still together, and I still have the original (along with many others) picture.

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i own that car it sit's in my man cave next to my 71 W30 442.it still has the old roll bar sun tach heater all the stock inter.it was in storage for 28 years in 2007 jerry jr bought it back from the owner that jim wheeler sold it to in 1974. it still had the stock elem motor in it no trans or drive shaft.jerry still had a W30 engine in the crate that came from olds in 1972 we took the engine apart honed it and put new rings the cyls were rusted from sitting for all of those years.jerry had no place to keep it. so i bought it.in 1974 i towed the car for wheeler to the gatornatlonals behind my ramp truck.and as they say the rest is history.i have pics of it on my facebook page.i still can't get the pics to come up on the class racer page.

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Here are the pictures of Sammy's 72 Olds Convertible from his Facebook page.

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thanks tony i tried to pull up the pics from my pics but i have to down size them but i can't do it thanks again.i tried everthing that moose told me but it did not work.i guess it is time to get the computer geek to come over lol!

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Great looking Olds convertible. It looks like the pattern on the hood matched the other 4-4-2's that Dover used to own as well, the brown '70 and the white '72 hardtops.

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I remember this car , and Wheeler was a good guy to talk to .

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yes he was a great guy a lot of fun to be with.i will never forget the 1974 gators i had ronnie sox in the third round and i was getting ready for that round dover was my boss at that time and jerry was running around helping me get ready and wheeler said let them get your car ready let's go walk around and calm down and don't let sox rattle you.i was 24 years old at the time and had ice water running through my vaines i said i can't beat the great ronny sox so i just wen't up to the line and killed the tree and when i got it in high gear i was looking in the mirror and i said to myself sox i think your in trouble.and he was i ran 09 under he ran 12 under.and the next round i broke third gear and wen't to high but it wasen't enough.

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The Remlinger Olds in action...

http://classracer.com/classforum/att...4&d=1354296901

http://classracer.com/classforum/att...7&d=1354296901

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Jim Wheeler was at the 1971 SuperNationals--Ontario Calif .

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Great story Sam and glad you were able to save a couple of the old cars as they were. :)

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Is that 15.99 on the door glass the ET on this car? Never seen that car before!!

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thanks guy's i don't have the heart to cut it up and make it to race specs of today. i will strip and repaint it and try to keep it like it is.when i worked for dover i started with him in 1971 when my 71 car was owned by fornof old's caddy.in 1972 when the car whent back to the dealer and we got the 72 car. i became friends with the guy that bought my 71 car i raced it for him in pure stock while i raced my ss/r 66 belair.i won my first ever nhra points meet in the 71 olds in 1974 at laplace dragway.in 1975 my friend sold it to another friend frank butler.in 1978 frank sold the car to jimmy gaidry i bought the car from gaidry in 79.and as they say the rest is history.i allways liked the red convert when wheeler had it.and for years i tryed to buy it from the guy that wheeler sold it to.when he died the car whent in a mini storage for about 28 years and one day his wife called me to buy the car. jerry jr was working with me at the time so he bought it. we kept it at my shop for a couple years and i bought it from jr.i wanted to keep it in the family. so as long as i am breathing the two cars have a home.i hope everyone enjoyed the story of my two old's.

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Top pic: Gentleman Jack Mullins, far lane.

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Ed, I looked at that pic too, but I don't think Jack's car ever had the red top.

Sammy - Seems I remember seeing that Olds with Jerry Dover Jr. driving it at LaPlace in1975.

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dwight jerry jr drove it for sure in 1976. and jack mullins car did not have a red top when he owned it a man named stewert pitre bought it from jack and painted it with a red top.he also owned jack's olds and painted it with a red top also.

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Thats not the blue 71 Supreme repainted is it? This white car is a different car?
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no it is not the blue 71 car this is a different car.i don't remember who wheeler sold the blue car to.

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Cruiser------The blue Robinson ( Bill Robinson 1970 green Auto Buying Service unfortunately now deceased ) And Michaels ( Jim Michaels Seven Corners Shell Arlington Va. still living and selling Olds parts in N.C. )Supreme hardtop ( photo in #34 ) was aquired from Ron Garey in around 1971. It was repainted multicolored and raced for a short period of time in northern Va. then stored. About 5-6 years ago Glen Myers Manassas Va. purchased the car from Jim , I did a motor for it and he raced it for a couple of years until he had health issues. The car went back to Jim and is once again resting in his garage ( the car is pristene ).

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Great info. Thanks. Was the 71 Supreme a 455 car? And do you know what happened to Robinson's green 70 442?


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I wasnt talking about the blue 71 Remlinger ragtop by the way but the 71 Supreme formerly raced by Ron Garey which appears to have been a Remlinger car briefly. I wasnt sure if you were speaking of the ragtop or the hardtop. Sorry I mixed up some other race cars in this thread. Great thread you started here.

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I was just wondering, is this the same Olds convertible or a different one...

http://wildaboutcarsonline.com/membe...lingerolds.jpg

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It is not the same car. I once thought it was but the author of this thread and owner of the red Remlinger convertible said it was not.
He may be addressing this in post number 31 above. Although it was common for 71 Cutlasses to be converted to 72s courtesy of Oldsmobile's Dale Smith sending the racers grilles, headlights bezels, and taillights. That Cooper Speed Shop Al Seger convertible in my signature picture below is and example of a 71
later converted to a White 72. The chrome strip along the lower body(also on the blue Remlinger convertible) is incorrect for 72 and you will notice on the white 72 converted car below they left this 71 molding in place. It would take some bodywork to switch out the molding- filling in holes and making new holes and if the blue and red Remlinger convertible was the same car it would have been a painstaking conversion but not impossible. But per the current owner we know they are not the same car. On the red Remlinger convertible you see a thin bodyside molding that is correct for 72 and the chrome rocker panel molding along the very bottom. 70 and 71 Supremes had the wide chrome molding that you see on the black and white pictures below but in 72 they moved to a thin strip like the red Remlinger car below. Too much information Im sure.

http://wildaboutcarsonline.com/membe...0428379789.jpg

http://classracer.com/classforum/pic...pictureid=7052
Two cars above are same car. Cutlass SX 455 were rare cars
and convertible SXs are even more rare. Correct me if Im wrong
Ive heard this car was sold with an incorrect 350 engine installed and
the 72 changes intact? Al Seger then moved to the 72 Go Shop
Cutlass Cruiser flat top wagon in 1973 that he must have raced until
he got a white 76-77 Cutlass? and then a 78-79 98 Regency?





[quote=Hemi Moose;359493]I was just wondering, is this the same Olds convertible or a different one...

http://wildaboutcarsonline.com/membe...lingerolds.jpg
Different cars

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I believe Jack's Olds had a red top. Bill Godwin and I helped him wrench that car at the Dallas Springnationals in 1970 and I remember the red top. Somewhere I have a couple of pictures from that race . . .

Was 1976 the year that Dover Jr and S.E. Were in a points battle up to the last race? I remember there almost being a fight between Kuntz and Dover Jr at the Jackson points race. Jim was such a hothead in those days.

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dwight you are correct on the fight in jackson mississippi.jim was a tempered young man and shoved jerry jr who at the time was 16 years old.jerry sr and joe teuton sr jumped in and as they say the rest was history.jim would not wan't to try that today jerry jr weights about 210 and bench presses around 350 lbs. and danny the red and blue convert were two different cars. the red convert was a 455 250 hp from the factory it had a collum shift and a bench seat that dover converted it to buckets and a w30 car.jr and i installed a out the crate w30 that was left over from the dale smith days. my black 71 is origonaly a W30 car with 07 miles on it and the red convert has 38 miles on it

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VC, thanks for the additional info...now I know.

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Cool photos and interesting stories. I was told that Dover's '70 hardtop (brown) was sold about a year ago up in Kentucky. The older gentleman (can't recall his name offhand) that owned had passed away, but had previously raced it at the Bowling Green races some years ago. Was it an original 4-4-2 or a clone made from a Cutlass? I wondered because I recall it having a standard (non cut-out) rear bumper.