1984 Oldsmobile Hurst Olds Lighting Rod Shifters

[@EmbracingElevation]

That burgundy on burgundy with the wood paneling, CLEAN!

[@garysmith1863]

I can smell that interior through my screen 👃🏻

[@SonnyGTA]

Might just be your moms crotch. This interior is clean!

[@wowcarter15]

Like sweet Saturdays and iced bourbon

[@post-leftluddite]

Lol, I know EXACTLY what you're talking about

[@turfguy420]

I remember those cars new spinning on the carousel..... Nice ride bro! 👍🏁

[@user-sd6sw4zr5k]

My dad had the same back in the day n later understand why he loved it so much!!

[@JackF99]

Better hold onto ALL of those shifters when those 180 horses kick in.

[@philtripi9937]

We get it, it didn’t have a 455ci with 360hp. Hilarious. In the era these were cool and still are.

[@robertmceuen3630]

Too bad it's got a 400 out of a 67 442. Built of course. So ya, he'll be holding onto those shifters.

[@johnnyringo35]

Yawn....give me a Buick 455 or Ford 427 SOHC.....wait I own both 😁

[@TurboGTO288]

​@@robertmceuen3630So, your saying it makes 195 horses instead of the 180.

[@chiefshortingbull2958]

I know people make fun of the horsepower (or lack thereof!) but the younger people need to understand that in 1983 engineers had not yet worked out how to get big horsepower out of a car with all those emission requirements. Things were a lot different 40 years ago.

[@lucasblanchard47]

That is SO COOL!

[@randywatson4870]

Love these.....

[@JedTaneo]

What a nice interior. I’d stay in that all day.

[@jessihawkins9116]

you’d poop in there? 😲

[@stevenmarcinkowski8577]

Nice cloth interior. Had a 1980 Buick Regal turbo coupe. Very much the same interior. Same color only the Buick had black on top of the burgundy

[@miltoneladaz]

My dream car 🔥

[@robertsmith987]

I have them still can’t figure out how to use lol

[@dannygreen7473]

They were a gimmick.

[@thewhipple]

@@dannygreen7473 out of curiosity, may I ask how so? Not a smart ass response just genuinely curious lol

[@TurboGTO288]

​@@thewhippleJust another way to sell cars to race driver wannabe dummies.

[@redlight3932]

@@thewhipple theyre just to throw you into your preferred gear asap for racing at redlights an auto was slow shifting back then so this made it just that bit faster compared to a car with a normal auto

[@flipperelit7044]

Интерьер бомба🔥

[@danstubbs5032]

I remember those shifters.

[@jordazmo19]

What a beauty 👍

[@user-uw2td8xs4w]

Wish mine still worked like that

[@user-vm8ur2eo1v]

Bad ass car

[@quesross-sm1dv]

Raw rare lightrod shifts

[@carloslira5065]

idc what anyone has to say... but Olds Hurst and 442 are the best...

[@samuelmorado70]

I used to see one Brand New at my local Olds dealership here in Lubbock Texas. I think it was priced in mid 14000. Too pricey for my High School budget.😅

[@alfredoalfredo8796]

My favorite color combo and car !! Is it going to be for sale ?

[@markcollins3732]

Remember that new.

[@st.louismissouri1239]

I like this one

[@DanielLopez-me9mh]

I've always been a fan of the Hurst lighting shifters from 1983 to 1984 love that Oldsmobile looks like it just rolled off the assembly line

[@johnj5726]

That’s nice af

[@keithlea6804]

Want it. Must have it.

[@straightlinepainting5967]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@elgeneralxx]

1984 body still in the hearse!!

[@fartzr.schmelli3351]

This gimmick would've been great 20yrs earlier when Olds were still fast.

[@sadie1095]

Oh yeah, 👍💪👊😵

[@kaedre1211]

That interior looks a lot like a '84 Buick Regal 🤔

[@chiefshortingbull2958]

That's blasphemy! The 84 Buick Regal interior looks a lot like an 83 Cutlass interior! ;)

[@rolltide9547]

Grand National food

[@BPattB]

Was that factory? I know Olds and Hurst do some stuff together

[@ruger8412]

Yes some did come with them it was an option if I remember right. It was also called the street Lenco.

[@BPattB]

@@ruger8412 wild

[@TurboGTO288]

​@@ruger8412FAR from a street Lenco. More like a LAMEco.

[@KellIChlanda-vk3iw]

MY GRANDMA' BOUGHT THAT SAME CAR 🚙 NEW

[@ron8935]

Super cool.....but build quality then by GM was non existent..

[@nickajk1]

Too bad the best thing about the car was the lightning rod shifters that engine was severely underpowered

[@Fred_NaughT]

Still ran circles around the stock 307 😂

[@dewfall56]

Oh boy! What a marketing gimick. They never worked right.

[@orest395]

Does this count as a manual?

[@TurboGTO288]

No

[@moth450]

Now gm was making a chevy cruze and buick envista😅😅. Junk cars

[@somervillearron]

for Americans who ALL cant change gear properly

[@GOBRADON502]

And probably a weak 305.

[@Fred_NaughT]

Olds 307 H.O. 180 hp vs normal 148 hp of the normal 307

[@markreibson7030]

yeah... about that.... this car is the poster child of "poser" . A legit 17 flat at 80 mph car. with a huge investment, could be made faster. but from the factory stone slow. Your mom's Kia with a 4 cylinder is faster. 😮

[@jamesblair9614]

I remember when these came out, it pretty much confirmed Detroit had become as irrelevant as was possible, I felt embarrassed that GM had actually let something this silly make it through to production.

[@theedumptruck4709]

Look up kilduff shifters. He builds a shifter that looks like lightning rods but way cooler. I have 2 of them in my street cars.

[@TurboGTO288]

Just another gimmick to sell useless parts to unknowing race driving wannabes.

[@Gaspipenicklioni]

🥱

[@benjaming2423]

Lenko?

[@Fred_NaughT]

Hurst lightning rods