Never seen one before and figured I would post.
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Are you selling this or what? External links to social media for selling is frowned upon. We need to know what section to put this in.

I am not selling I found the car on line and seen it had a distributor. Just never seen a Oldsmobile 3800 with one before and figured it was rare.

Very well then, moved to General GM chat, Oldsmobile and the like sections are for technical discussion only.

Very interesting, I have never seen that either.

'85 only, still driving the oil pump on the old (lousy) oil pump design. Technically, it isn't a 3800 either. Designation didn't change until the last vestiges of the engine evolving from a V8 was removed with the offset piston rod setup.

All I know is its cool but would never want one haha. Could you imagine if that thing had any sorts of problems.

They were supposed to be pretty fragile. Really tainted the new, "big" transverse front drives. GM had delayed these bodies debut a year trying to get them right, IIRC. The Cadillac 4.1 V8, the Buick 3.8 (and a lesser 3.0 V6 that burned more fuel, IIRC), and the rare, 4.3 (Olds) diesel V6 endured a lot of unhappy owners.

The 4.3 diesel was fairly reliable, especially relative to the 5.7 V8 diesel. The problem was it was so heavy that the FWD cars it was in sagged in front, handled strangely, and never had good enough tires in front. It was noisy, and it was so rare that later in life there were seldom any regularly-available parts for them. I see them show up on Ebay and some classic car sale sites every once in a while.