I haven't been online as much in the last couple months due to lots of work stuff and getting ready for a nice little deployment to an overseas desert paradise that's coming up pretty soon, but that hasn't stopped me from expanding my fleet of cars. Speaking of which, I almost made it a year without buying another car, but darn that late night craigslist browsing. :lol:
Last month I drove my truck back up north to have some body work done at a shop that's worked on my family's cars for a number of years. When I got up there I was online and ran across another '93 Oldsmobile Achieva SCX for sale in Utah. While driving my dad's truck back to SoCal along with my mom we stopped by late at night to look at it and a week later when my dad was driving my truck down he picked it up for me and towed it to my house.
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For those not familiar with the car, and I'm guessing that's most people, it was a special version of the Achieva and was only made in limited numbers in '92 and '93. The Achieva SCX W41 replaced the Cutlass Calais 442 W41 in the Olds lineup which had been introduced in that car's last year of production for 1991 (both were built on the same basic GM N-body platform). They were essentially a showroom stock race car for those interested in racing SCCA showroom stock and was also used to homogulate the car for other racing series. The SCX was campaigned quite successfully by GM-backed teams in the IMSA Firehawk Series as well as a World Challenge car. Below is the text from the press release package that I have from when the then new '92 Achieva was released.
The following are some pictures of the car I picked up. It is one of the 500 SCXs made in 1993. The chassis has just under 200k miles but much of the mechanicals were replaced by the previous owner. He picked it up from someone that pulled the W41 engine for another project along with some of the underhood components. He replaced it with a GM reman engine along with a new clutch, radiator, A/C compressor, hoses and a bunch of other stuff to include some suspension pieces, brakes, and newer tires (all of which has been done in the last 7-8k miles). Despite the mileage the car is pretty clean with no rust or major issues. The paint when viewed in person is pretty chipped on the front end and is not as glossy as new but I can't complain for a 17 model-year-old car. The interior is also in pretty good shape and everything still works on the car.
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Last month I drove my truck back up north to have some body work done at a shop that's worked on my family's cars for a number of years. When I got up there I was online and ran across another '93 Oldsmobile Achieva SCX for sale in Utah. While driving my dad's truck back to SoCal along with my mom we stopped by late at night to look at it and a week later when my dad was driving my truck down he picked it up for me and towed it to my house.
For those not familiar with the car, and I'm guessing that's most people, it was a special version of the Achieva and was only made in limited numbers in '92 and '93. The Achieva SCX W41 replaced the Cutlass Calais 442 W41 in the Olds lineup which had been introduced in that car's last year of production for 1991 (both were built on the same basic GM N-body platform). They were essentially a showroom stock race car for those interested in racing SCCA showroom stock and was also used to homogulate the car for other racing series. The SCX was campaigned quite successfully by GM-backed teams in the IMSA Firehawk Series as well as a World Challenge car. Below is the text from the press release package that I have from when the then new '92 Achieva was released.
That summarizes most of the major differences between the SCX compared to the basic Achieva. If you've ever driven a base model Achieva they were a marginal car at best compared to contemporary compacts (especially the sedan). While the regular models were ho-hum, GM did a lot of suspension development work on the SCX and it showed on the track. There's a short review of the car on youtube from the PBS MotorWeek series at this link.
The following are some pictures of the car I picked up. It is one of the 500 SCXs made in 1993. The chassis has just under 200k miles but much of the mechanicals were replaced by the previous owner. He picked it up from someone that pulled the W41 engine for another project along with some of the underhood components. He replaced it with a GM reman engine along with a new clutch, radiator, A/C compressor, hoses and a bunch of other stuff to include some suspension pieces, brakes, and newer tires (all of which has been done in the last 7-8k miles). Despite the mileage the car is pretty clean with no rust or major issues. The paint when viewed in person is pretty chipped on the front end and is not as glossy as new but I can't complain for a 17 model-year-old car. The interior is also in pretty good shape and everything still works on the car.
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