- BODY: Dash Motorsports
- WHEELS & TIRES: Road Race Replicas
This was the 2nd body added to my collection made by Dash Motorsports, after my black ’68 Chevelle. It is definitely one of the best looking cars I own. At the time I bought it, it was the most expensive body I had ever purchased, and by a wide margin; I was so determined to get it that I got into a bidding war on ebay and by the time I saw the pink bar saying I’d won the auction, it had cost me $84.
There may have been a short period of buyer’s remorse, but once the body arrived in the mail the regrets ended. I have since looked at many other copies of this Olds body and even bought a couple, but I have never seen another one with the beautiful finish and detail this one has, leading me to think that the ebay seller I bought it from may have customized it. If I’m right, he did an incredible job; the finish is like glass, and it has also proven to be very durable, as a year of hard racing involving some pretty major crashes has not chipped or damaged it.
Those crashes have been caused by the car’s prodigious speed; when it arrived I was sure to fit it with the fastest chassis I had, and with its Road Race Replica wheels and low profile tires it is a screamer on the track, reaching speeds few of my other cars could achieve; it was so fast that it would sometimes fly off the banked section of my track and launch itself across the room. Using the cool “Turbo Boost” speed control terminal on my Tyco layout, I often had to “detune” this car just to keep it on the track, but even so it usually won every tournament it entered.
In the 8 months since then I have built several even faster cars, but this one remains in the top drawer and rubs elbows with the fastest of the fast. Since putting it together, I’ve never made a change to it; the chassis, wheels and tires are the same ones I first fitted to it, because you don’t mess with perfection; when a car looks and goes this well, the smartest thing to do is leave well enough alone!
As a GM fan, I love vintage Oldsmobiles and have always felt they are underrepresented in miniature, so Kudos to Dash for making a model of the ’70 Cutlass. I personally have a slight preference for the ’69 model, but any year from ’68-’72 were prime times for this marquee, and this gold one is the best example of this body I’ve yet seen. How cool that I also happen to own it!
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