<VV> Olds were found to have Chevy engines

[Tom Berg]

Years ago my wife and I had a '79 Buick Riveria that had an Olds 350 V-8. I wouldn't have known it but a mechanic at an independent repair shop mentioned it while we had it for for service. He said the difference in the engines was in the heads. 
 
Except that Oldsmobile, Buick, etc., were upscale automobiles and cost more, I doubt that any customers who got other divisions' engines in their cars were really harmed. Then again, maybe resale values of the more costly cars suffered when they were found to have Chevy engines. Anyone have info on that?
 
--Tom in Ohio
 

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 From: Tony Underwood <tony.underwood at cox.net>
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org 
Sent: Monday, September 3, 2012 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Olds were found to have Chevy engines
  
At 03:24 PM 9/3/2012, Sethracer at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 9/3/2012 8:06:40 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>chaz at properproper.com writes:
>
>What is  the percentage of owners who would know what it was if they did
>open
>the  hood, and did GM rely on them knowing, or not knowing by "just
>looking"?
>What is the percentage of owners who would even open the  hood?
>They probably would not know the code either,  though.CL
>
>I heard that what really cooked GM's goose on the engine swapping,
>(Legal-wise) was when a number of 307 Chevy motors were installed 
>in  Oldsmobiles -
>and had the air filter housing topped with a "Oldsmobile Rocket  V8"
>sticker on the top. Uh, not really!
>
>Corvair Content? No Corvair engines were ever installed into other GM cars?
>  At least as production cars. And my Corvair engines always ingested
>"Turbo-Air".  -Seth



For what it's worth, the General was stuffing a few Chevy engines 
into BOPs along the way on a fairly regular basis.  I knew of a 
"loaded" early 70s vintage Pontiac station wagon fitted with a 
bigblock Chevy engine painted "Poncho" blue and was even sporting 455 
stickers on its valve covers.  It was in a service shop getting some 
tuneup work, asked about the odd combo, was told they'd seen more 
than one done up like that.

Of course there's all those more modern GM products all running 
bowtie engines these days.  Still find it odd to see a bowtie in a 
Caddy out of the box.



tony..  
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