[Oldsguy]

Run,

I appreciate that good post. It appears that you have done quite a bit of reading up on Oldsmobile documentation, or have a lot of good references, or have a lot of first hand experience (I see you are old enough for that), or a combination of them all. I fully agree with some of your statements and opinions. My beef is when people get hung up on the name badge image (you eluded to BJ and the hype they have induced), and end up either looking for an "original 442" or selling one that may not end up really being what was advertised. I get more excited about a nice well preserved Cutlass S or f85 that was purchased as a plain vanilla car, or one of those as you described that were built up by the owner or dealer using options available than I do about a "numbers matching" original 442 - W machine - Hurst equipped - one of a kind - guaranteed bazillion dollar super car. Although I do like seeing those rare '68 post cars with bench seats and four speeds that occasionally show up. Dan, your car is really nice and you have done a good thing by it.