Thanks and I hope I live up to your expectations. I also guess I should write a formal intro, since I never did.
I've owned Oldsmobile A-body cars continuously since I inherited the family 68 Vista Cruiser when I got my driver's license in 1974.
Note that the Vista received a 425 transplant not too long after I got it (and without the parents' knowledge) and I proceeded to dust off a few of the local hotshots in central Massachusetts as I was growing up (including a 69 Mach 1 whose owner was incredulous). I graduated to a 68 442 that I pulled out of a wrecking yard and completely refurbished (It only took three years!). Since then I've owned about two dozen Oldsmobiles, mostly 64-72 A-body cars.
I moved to SoCal in 1980 with two Cutlii and came back to the right coast in 1987 with five. See attached pictures from moving day. The cool thing is that you get a discount if you fill the car carrier with one stop (there's a Jag and a Chevy crewcab in addition to the five Oldsmobiles). The orange 71 parked above the cab of the truck was featured in the Oct 1985 issue of Car Craft Magazine (pg 106, but who's counting...). It had a tilt front end from VFN Fiberglass, dual quads, nitrous, and a bunch of chrome. Unfortunately it went away in the first divorce (along with the Jag). The truck has been replaced but I still have the other four cars (66 442 convert, 68 W-30, 69 H/O, and 70 W-30). I've added another three A-bodies plus the 64 Jetstar. Unfortunately, all need work and right now the pressures of running my own company and trying to restore the 300 yr old log house on our farm (yes, I had to buy a project HOUSE also...) don't leave a lot of time to work on the cars. My wonderful wife (third time's a charm) is very understanding (which I'm sure has NOTHING to do with her also having an expensive hobby - horses).
Well, thanks again. We'll see how it goes.