1987 olds custom cruiser station wagon,

[Aircooled]

http://houston.craigslist.org/cto/3559425287.html

ALL ORIGINAL, HAS 48,000 ORIGINAL MILES ON CAR, 5.0 V-8,

[Barry Donovan]

307 or 305.

edit:
307 if noone messed with it.
not much to modify, even today, not much available.

nice intake is out there..do not know about cam.
the egr stuff is a nightmare. can't run it for long with it.

[BOOOGHAR]

that was the car of choice in the bomber division in arizona at manzanita speedway but it had to be powered by the 403 to do any good

[Beagle]

Monica says it is probably for sale to cover the psychologist bills they racked up for their kids because of dropping them off at school with it.

Looks like a Chevy mill, although it might be a 307 Olds. I was kind of interested until I got the death glare. She said "Are you in love" and I had to think real quick "Yes, with you honey, not with that car."

So... I'm hearing a big fat NO unspoken at my house.

The 307 .. can you put a rocket 350 in it's place or is it a short deck? I'm half ass looking for an old Cutlass for a cruiser, the 350 Rocket in my sister's 74 was one of the best engines I've ever driven for a cruiser. Good power, butter smooth, pretty good MPG, reliable as a rock. It's no hot rod, but it was fun to drive. Peppy little f*er is how I would refer to it. I can understand how a bunch of them wound up in pickup trucks down here.

/edit - why is it with 48,000 miles, the first thing I can think of is what kind of engine I could swap into it? Gawd.