Please tell your friends! http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/carsforsale/oldsmobile/442/1571820.html
Great car, Great write up, Great case of "buyers remorce" coming. Hope it sells well and goes to a good home. CU@PSMCDR, plan to say hi at the booth. Ryan
Diego, great story, hope it goes to a great home.. Then you can find that Buick that you really always wanted! LOL!:Brow:
Wow, That's a Shocker!! I thought they'd Bury You in that thing. I remember if from the Showdown when were @ the A&W on 224 it Boardman. Not only unique in the Colors, but Sharp as well. (that had to be the early 90s) JR
Oh wow! You remember it then? I was with two other guys from Jersey and some Canadians, plus I know Dizzy Dean from around those parts. I recall a really neat 1971 Satellite that was white with little trim (and avoided any Road Runner items) and probably a worked 400 under the hood. I always wondered what happened to it but that car sticks out in my mind from that show. My car made "Hemmings Find of the Day" too! http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/...-day-1970-oldsmobile-4-4-2-w-30-2/?refer=news
Wow!.. that was one heckuva' cool write up! Very nice. But before I go "telling my friends" about this sweet ride's availability, I'd like to confirm that you did NOT misplace the decimal point in your price?
I will - thanks! ADDENDUM: http://www.mecum.com/auctions/lot_detail.cfm?LOT_ID=SC0513-154079 I'm guessing this car is undocumented because real 4-speed cars push 200k with one recent sale (not at an auction) going over 300. :eek2:
As the long time owner of another very rare Olds treasure, I'm sorry to see you give her up...but I know it will go to a good home and get the respect and treatment that it needs. Good luck. In the back of my mind, I'm kind of hoping you won't sell it as it will be a lot more of a treasure in your new life where you can enjoy it year around. I have no plans to ever sell my Ramrod, and now am finally having it repainted and some of the little "oopses" smoothed out by a very highly skilled bodyman who does all my cars. First repaint after 45 years. LOL.. I don't know the build date of your car, but if it is anything past March/April of 1970, those may not be 1971-72 fenders and could easily be the originals. Those dimples were in fact a design change for the 1971 model year and did generate a new set of part numbers from the 1970's, but the only difference is those little dimples in the upper inner fender reinforcements and were put in for upcoming crash requirements. It originally was a model year balance out change, but was pulled ahead into the 1970 model year as the fenders were totally interchangeable with the 1970 ones with the smooth inner reinforcements. We normally tried to have a first in-first out change, but with the looming UAW strike that brought us all to our knees for months at the beginning of the 1971 model year, they built all kinds of "strike protection" inventory to get us through the start up woes of the 1971 model change all through GM. New dies were not made for these upper reinforcements and no other changes were required, so they started using them as soon as they were the next rack of parts available in the paint plant. We had racks and racks of parts in every nook and cranny of the entire Olds facility preparing for what we knew was going to be a very long strike, and had to run the assembly lines wide open when we started running the 1971's to get cars out to the dealers to weather the storm. No way to use up the old stuff before we started on the new, and took a long time to get to the "back of the pile" to purge the old stuff well into the 1971 MY. As a result, many of the late 1970 A cars got "1971" fenders in the latter months of production. In many cases there were different ones on each side of the car. This not only happened in the late 1970 model run, but well into the 1971 abbreviated model year as they came across old inventory of "1970" fenders. It was well into March April of 1971 before we got all the inventory rotated and the old stock exhausted. So, a late 1970 could have been built with "1971" parts if they would fit, and many early 1971's were built with "1970" parts. That was especially true of the BOP plant cars where the parts flow was much slower than in Lansing and components were stored all over the country in rail cars full of "1970" strike protection parts. Since this was pretty much pre-computer times, it's amazing that we could even keep a lot of this straight and built the 90+ cars per hour in the Lansing plant and also keep the BOP plants in supply with an equal number. Lots and lots of 12-16 hour days, 7 days a week back then.. Great car, great story, hope you get your price for it, but i almost hope you keep it, get your feet on the ground in your new endeavors, and get to enjoy it a lot more than you've been able to in recent years. BTW, I still have all your old plastic model cars from your high school days. LOL..
Good trial run for selling it.:TU: If you made it this far and haven't freeked out yet, you can probably get through the sale unscathed. Guys have emotions too.........:Brow: Ryan
Now what? Hate it when that happens. Just freezes you in your tracks and kills the momentum you had going in the marketing. Andy's right, it's good to get a sizable non-refundable down payment, is harsh, but maybe the only way. On the other hand, it depends upon the market. My next door neighbor just sold his Concours 63 E type fixed head coupe for $85k. He was asking $90k. It was bought in Pebble Beach Concours and the new buyer is returning it to his home in Pebble Beach. Awesome car, has been kept in one of those temp/humidity "bubbles" since he got it. Underside is as perfect as the top side. He put it up on my lift recently and cleaned the entire underside with windex and a clean cloth.. He had another buyer in Germany that he deals with in his businesses, but hemmed and hawed a little too long.
I gotta figure out how to sell it. Not gonna put it on eBay. And no, Andy, no deposit kept - with this guy, I think he's being earnest. Not going to take a guy's money like that.
