Well I thought I'd join the 90's era and buy a scanner. Boy, is this fun.

Anyhow, I went into the archives and found a shot of my 1968 Oldsmobile Delmont 88,my first ride!

The car came with a 455 and a two barrel. Lift the hood and the air cleaner and it was like looking at a straw instead of a carb. Anyhow, it was replaced with a Carter 4 bbl. That car had so much bottom end torque, spinning the tires was an easy event.

A few of my buddies and I would take the beast out on Jack Fish Lake west of Edmonton during the dead of winter. We would start off ice fishing, but boredom would soon set in, jam Uriah Heep or Boston into the Craig Power Play 8 track, roll down the windows, and see what the old girl would do. It was nothing to get close to highway speed on the frozen lake, jam on the e-brake and put the massive 2 door into a 4 wheel drift, alot of times, out of control.  Hence the crumple on the left rear corner. The interior would get a good shot of snow/ice spray when a good drift was produced, hence the term "Snow-Oldsmobiling" was invented.

The car was traded off for an even larger, heavier two door Chrysler to which I'll share a shot with you on a later thread.

In the mean time, "Snow-Oldsmobiling" only needs to be mentioned with any of those guys that would ride shot gun back then, and they remember what a hi-speed facefull of snow felt like. Ah, to be young (get away with it) again!