Hurst Engineered FWD '68 Olds 442 Uncovered

[bobbarry]

Neat story for the Olds folks emerges from a Corvette Forum...

Corvette forum member, in a thread about a Craigslist ad for a 1983 Corvette, to illustrate how some people don't know everything, mentions in passing his father-in-law's prototype front-wheel drive '68 442 with a 455. People nay-say and mock his claims:

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/1572263991-post10.html

Mention of his claim is made over on an Olds forum, where again his claim is dismisssed, and people say that this claim is worthless without pictures.

http://www.realoldspower.com/phpBB2/...d1a1e47f277c35

He posts pics.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-g...eel-drive.html

http://s665.photobucket.com/albums/vv19/81pilot/442/

Turns out this was not an unknown prototype, but actually a Hurst engineering project from 1968 that had been brought up independently before:

http://www.oldspower.com/vb/showthread.php?t=34178

Now we simply know that it still exists, and where it is. The below link has the copy of the March 1968 issue of Super Stock that has a detailed 4-page article on the car:

http://72.22.90.30/phpBB2/viewtopic....sc&start=0

Very cool that something like this comes to light.