Olds rear end for Gasser project

[twopaws]

Can you guys recommend a Olds rear end to be used in gasser projects? Can be kit sourced or even better aftermarket resin cast. Thanks for any suggestions.

[my80malibu]

AMT Pontiac catalina should be very similar. All BOP cars were interchangeable in the early years. You might look at the Revell 50 Oldsmobile as well

[Ace-Garageguy]

The Olds and Pontiac rear ends most popular for racing because of their strength and gear ratios are '57 and later. Same with the Ford 9". Earlier gassers often used truck rear ends.

For the correct-appearing '57-'64 Olds / Pontiac, my80malibu is right on about the AMT '62 Catalina, though you'll probably have to narrow it for a gasser. Surely somebody makes it in resin.

The backside of the '57-'64 looks like this, and doesn't have a bolt-on cover.

This is the general appearance, below, of the earlier Olds rear end, though coil-sprung cars would have different spring perches. Note the bolt-on rear cover.

Edited November 28, 2013 by Ace-Garageguy

[buffalobill]

You might also consider the Olds rear end found in Revell's ancient '41 ('Stone, Woods, Cook') Willys gasser kit / not their much newer-tooled Chrysler hemi-powered Willys kit.

[1972coronet]

Not that this inquiry affects the topic one iota ; weren't the early versions of the "B-O-P" rear equipped with 5.57 gearing ?