Bobthebeard Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 How's your Mercury? Did the fault get sorted in the end?It'd be interesting to have both in use together and a good old GM v Ford comparison of the two similar cars.The speedo/transmission fault is now sorted. Was a worn VSS drive gear in the transmission. Normal speedometer and shifting now. The only fault code remaining is something fuel pump related. Brings on the 'check engine' light every time after a mile or two. "Secondary fuel pump circuit has no or bad ground (earth)" or similar. Runs well enough though. Will investigate! A previous owner (before Eddy) had removed the 'check engine' light bulb, so am assuming this fault code has been going on for a while. danthecapriman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobthebeard Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 .... shirley, OLD leaves an 'auto$hite shaped' space to insert 'M''A''N', made of other cars badge letters - then finished off with a badge from a husqvarna 'SNOWMOBILE'. TSA photoshop of the OLDS bit, together with a MAN truck badge and a SNOWMOBILE? tooSavvy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hauserplenty Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Me coat? Why?? I'm not leaving yet..."This is not your father's Oldsmobile!" ...in a bit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobthebeard Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Lost me there chap.....Eh ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 A photoshop of the OLDS bit, together with a MAN truck badge and a SNOWMOBILE? ..... some humour in the old U.S of A, then.... no photojobbying in the real world, M8 TS Cavcraft and Bobthebeard 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hauserplenty Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 "Not your father's Oldsmobile" was an ad slogan. I remember hearing it as a young lad. The "sport" badge strikes me as a marketing ploy to shake off the stodgy image of GM's top 3 divisions at the time. I don't think it worked, in Oldsmobile's case.Of course there was a time when I didn't see the need for power seats; now I won't drive a car without 'em! C-bodies are a favorite of mine. A 3.1 is a bit underpowered for the weight of the car where I live, but it should prove to be a comfortable place to be once you fix that ATF leak, which is usually the gasket since they all do that, sir. Even the Cadillacs... Bobthebeard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 I actually thought it went bloody well considering. ^^ Excellent drawing! LOL. Unsure of the significance of the bed, but jolly good! The clue is in the title of the picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaMIRO Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Forget the insipid "Not your father's Oldsmobile" ads. What you want is the "Special Feel" campaign from the mid-80s. Go on. Tell me it doesn't stick in your head. Lacquer Peel and andrew e 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hauserplenty Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 ...special in a..."Yeah but it's still not a Cadillac"...kind of way.It's stuck in my head. Like the music of...who could it be now......well isn't that special... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaMIRO Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 I find that theme (and some of GM's '80s marketing in general) rather more grand than what you see now. Stuff like Heartbeat of America (Chevrolet) and The Great American Road Belongs to Buick used powerful imagery quite effectively. The irony, of course, is that they invested more in marketing minor differences than they did in creating differences between the actual products. Still, for a short while, like the Jaguar X-Type, it worked. Like a Rock (Chevy trucks) was pretty good, too, but that was cheating in the sense that the song was around before the products it was used to advertise. It's astounding to me that they hired an agency to produce what you might term "Oldsmobile music." From about 1984 through 1988 (or thereabouts), the Olds buyer was given a tape with that theme on it. Every so often, you come across someone on a forum asking whether anyone knows what it was. The story is always the same; their parents had an Olds and from the back seat the poster, now an adult, kept asking for the tape to be played back, over and over again. I've even seen someone admitting to tearing up when they heard it again, for the first time in twenty years. Quite poignant (made just before the car was junked, apparently): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5dEF11QZ7k The instrumental version is even better: The best bit is that, in the case of There is a Special Feel and The Great American Road, they did variations on the theme: jazz, slower, faster, Christmas, etc. Listen to the first three minutes of this: I find myself wanting to isolate and fix the (warped) audio (I've tried... sadly, no go). Asimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted December 6, 2015 Author Share Posted December 6, 2015 Sounds like all of the the 80's action type programmes all cobbled together somehow and then fitted to an Oldsmobile. Odd but strangely endearing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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