1. Shame that Oldsmobile is gone.. they always had some innovative ideas.
2. you i swear to the life of my soul.... my dad bought AJ Foyts jet! its a hawker and Foyt has had the plane for 10 YEARS OH! AND FOYTS PILOT ROBERT(HIS NAME) HE FLEW ME AND MY DAD TOO I SWEAR YOU HAVE TOO BELIEVE ME!!!!
3. i remember seeing this in Hot Rod magazine. this car was so bad-ass
4. @GeSchmidtt I sort of see what you're saying, but the Veyron was also built purposly for high speed, hence it's ridiculously big engine. I'm not knocking the Veyron though
5. @hawksleyart01 It's the difference between a special purpose car designed to go at a high to speed as opposed to a car (the Veyron) that seats 2, has air conditioning, massive stereo system, leather interior electric windows, and can shut down in 0-60 almost any car in the world (2.5 seconds) and still do 252 mph on gas you can buy at the pump.
6. BTW, does anyone have a story as to why A.J. Foyt was chosen by GM to drive this car?
7. LMAO!!! Awe.Some. A GM four-banger doing some ridiculous shit waaay before the overrated Veyron.
8. And people said Americans could only do it with the V8 lol. Hard to believe that this was only a 2.3L 4 cylinder.
9. And people say the US can't make a fast car, or are good at engineering?? HA, this came out like 18 years before the Veyron, with a quarter of the technology and engine, and is faster.
10. Excellent job on the design Ed Welburn!!!
11. yeah, there were 2 versions of these: LT and ST
12. Chassis was a 1986 March, body was glass, canopy from an F-16. Legendary engine builder, Herbie "Horsepower" Porter helped build the Batten, single turbo and over the radio kept telling Foyt to turn up the boost, already at 40lbs. During the closed course runs Foyt would run at top speed down the straight, then let the car drift up the banking like a dirt car. Big Ballz, indeed!
13. First test run: GM proving grounds, Mesa, AZ Only one car, two bodies: short tail & long tail Two different- Batten/ single turbo & Fueling/ twin turbo Records set later at the dangerous Firestone 7.7 mile oval, Fort Stockton, TX. World records run in both directions. Flying mile - 276.339mph (long tail/Feuling) Closed course - 257.123mph (short tail/Batten -sucked a valve out of turn four) Foyt's top speeds were nearly 290mph.
14. I made a miss tell.. Quad 4 was the 4 Cylinder sorry bout that the 2.5 is the 4Tec lol again Sorry.
15. Driven by A.J. Foyt There was two versions: Short tail with the wing that acheived over 255.--- MPH and the Long tail with no wing that acheived a Closed Course Record of 278.357 MPH The car was an Indy Car that had the Alloy Body over it and was powered by the Oldsmobile 4Tec single turbo (short tail version) or the Twin Turbo (Long tail version). Ultimately the Design was sold in 1992 to an Italian Investor with hopes of a road going version that never happened. Monogram 1:24 Model #2901
16. I showed the tape I found at the car museum on the local community access TV station's live call-in show and they superimpose that text when you tape a show for rebroadcast later, so, folks don't call in.
17. why does it say pre-recorded?
18. whats the top speed? 0-60mph? price £? road legal?
19. the nurburgring is proper track for testing handling
20. One of the sickest cars ever made. Wish that they did more with it.
21. I work with one of the guys that built this car.
22. Nowhere in the title or the description of the video does it say it's only a speed test. If you're testing sheer speed, an oval is perfectly fine. However, sheer speed does not a good car make.
23. Okay, I get it now. If it's sheer speed that matters, then an oval is fine.
24. This car was for a 'flying mile' test. They only counted what was done on one straight way that was a mile long. Then had to go the other direction within one our to set the world record. It was built for all out top end speed to set the record. And as you can see from an earlier post. It was done with a 4-cylinder. It was also built to prove the Quad4 not the suspension. I do not think I want to take a hairpin turn at 250 MPH in any car.
25. Of course it was pre recorded. When the hell else are you going to record it afterward?

Oldsmobile Test w/ AJ Foyt

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Tape of the 1987 Olds Aerotech concept car driven by racing legend and brawler AJ Foyt at the Fort Stockton Test Center in Texas!
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