Best Oldsmobile Super Stock Of All Time?

[Dwight Southerland]

Originally Posted by Carl Weisinger

The Ingersoll Olds did belong to Jimmy Waibel before. Jimmy ran it in SS/O. I believe
Buddy took the car to Indy in 1976 knowing the HP had been hit for the 1971 Olds engine in his car. As I recall the story Ingersol had changed the trim to a 72 model and the same engine used a slightly smaller valve, which he had installed. So, even after the hit on the 71 he would have still been able to run SS/O. I think they put HP on the 72 combination on the spot in tech and told him he had to run SS/N. Now all of these "facts" could be out of whack since it was 35 years ago. But, maybe someone else may know something about that deal.

You are correct. I was standing in the sidelines when Farmer told the tech guy (Xakellis IIRC) that the '72 Olds now had the same hp as the '71. Buddy had kind of smarted off to Farmer and Farmer never liked a smarta$$.