Here's another vintage road test. My father bought one of these cars used, his was a '73 with the stock 350 and a 2 barrel. It was a peppy sedan and handled quite well for a large car. It was such a smooth car- tranny shifts were seamless, power was steady, stopping was quick, acceleration was good and the suspension handled potholes without much noise and there was not much oversteer. It also had strong air conditioner and my father put in a nice 4 speaker cassette stereo system. I was quite impressed with it, borrowed it a lot, and envied him although I had a nice '70 Cadillac DeVille at the time. In contrast, my Caddy was a heavy, ponderous vehicle. Overall build quality was good and it had lots of nice options, I tended to discover another one about every other week while I owned it, and the top speed was easily 150 mph (don't ask how I know). It had a 472 4 barrel and made a loud sucking sound from the air going into the carb at high speed. I never got 10 mpg in that thing which is why I sold it, but the Olds got around 15 mpg and was a much better value.