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Originally Posted by 'ol Pinion head
The GP driveshaft is the same, right down to color bands.GP engine sets way back. The rubber isolated driveshafts, first ever ran across them were short ones out of '69 Birds. For some reason Olds started using them a lot around '71-72. Have pulled them out of quite a few Cutlass I was parting. My bet, the rubber isolated driveshaft you have Dennis has to have come out of a longer wheelbase Abody, then was shortened on one end
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Roger, Thanks for the schooling on the GP driveshaft length being the same as the A-body. I forgot about the engine setback with the deeeep fan extension on the radiator shroud.
Dan recently bought a true survivor 1970 F-85 Olds with 39k miles and 100% original. It is a factory 310 hp 350/TH350/3.23 high altitude gear car. It is totally rust free high dessert car (SW Colorado). The paint is tired but the interior is mint (Olds version of Bermuda blue with optional blue vinyl guts), the point is it has the same rubber isolated driveshaft and has the correct stripe code colors for Olds. Soooo, I'm thinking it may have come from another F85/Cutlass. I wonder if Buick Skylarks had the same shaft....?
Dennis