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I think emission controls had something to do with it. I believe it was more difficult to get a car with a standard transmission to pass smog
Anything can be made fun to drive. I guarantee there is an aftermarket setup you can put on there that will make for very competent handling.
My buddy looked at doing his 1970 Cutlass. Edelbrock makes a cam/intake/heads setup that is good 300 horsepower. You can put big brakes and tubular upper and lower control arms that are plenty beefy, pretty sure you can replace the front subframe with one that is all pretty welds and steel tubing. Olds used coil springs, no leaf back there, but solid rear end. Very large sway bars fore and aft. He is going to retire in a few years, and will probably succumb to peer pressure when he has to start taking required minimum distributions
Corvette and early Tempest only IRS cars Both his cars are automatics, but you can swap in a 5 speed pretty easily
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