1970-W30

A May 70 issue of CARS magazine featured a road test of a new 1970 W30 with a weird color scheme, Sebring Yellow with Matador Red stripes. That's a color combo I've never seen, or heard of before. Has anyone ever seen or know of that bizarre color combo? Couldn't have been to many that rolled off the line with those colors........

Diego

It was not a factory-recommended combination so it relied on a person who knew his/her way around an order form and someone who had a sick sense of humor. I'm sure there was a handful of funky cars built although there's no saying if any other were built like this. Jensenracing claims his dad had a Sebring Yellow/blue car.

joe_padavano

The fact that it was not factory recommended doesn't mean that it couldn't be ordered. Any combination of available exterior/interior/stripe colors could have been ordered.

BeenThere

It works for me, but honestly most people don't care for it.

Diego

Never said it couldn't be ordered, but the factory organized recommended combinations.

ent72olds

Kind of cool IMO! I think Ron McDonald special ordered that car

Mikes442

Did you see the Motion decal on the passenger side window.


That WOULD be a Bad *** car!

BlackGold

I like the combination. Wasn't there a race team of that era that used that combination? I'm picturing a Ford GT40 or something. Also, DHL uses that color scheme to this day.

Diego

Smothers Brothers had a similar combo.

Here's another special-ordered paint combo....

cherokeepeople

my cousin went to school with a guy back in the 60's that ordered a 71 cutlass in gold with cream lace stripes on the oai hood{i have only seen 1 other set of lace stripes}.

Diego

No cream stripes in 1971, and no lace from the factory either.

oldspackrat

While at the Nationals in Cincy this year we saw a '71? Cutlass S I believe that had cream
lace stripes on the OAI hood. The original owner painted them on the car when it was brand new. Not exactly my taste, but they were well done.

cherokeepeople

the only other set of lace stripes i saw was at the olds nationals in omaha in the late 90's i think it was.on a dark green 69 or 70 w-30.there is a place phoenix graphix that used to reproduce em but don't see them on their website.

orange442

A guy sent me some pics of his original Rallye Red(orange) 70 W-30 that had gold stripes. It was different but did not look that bad.

Bens71442

Heres Platinum with (blue) stripes. Diego's post also shows (red) avail on Platinum.... THAT would be cool!

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Diego

1969w3155

The Rallye Red/Gold combo looks pretty good.

orange442

Diego, that looks like the same pic I had of it.

Yes, I would have to agree. Although, I may be a bit biased towards the ORANGE color for some unknown reason!

Elephant_Engine_Ernie

Never seen the platinum with red but the red stripe is pretty rare. I think a forum member is doing a resto on a white W-30 with red stripes. I remember a W-31 out of the Rockford, IL area that was a low mileage racer with factory white and red stripes, too. The sebring yellow with the red to me is the wildest combo. Would love to know the origin of that car used in the test and where it ended up!

jstohlman

I had a viking blue with gold stripe ( original paint car )71 W-30 convert ,,white top and white interior,, Special order car,, I put white stripes on it when I painted it back 20+ years ago,, The car is now back in the hands of the guy I bought it from and he may go back to Gold ??,, Very cool car

Elephant_Engine_Ernie

Would love to see a picture of the blue with the gold!

rob1960

Back in the late '70s when I lived in western NY there was a junkyard near Lockport. I don't remember the name but the place was amazing!! Besides regular cars & trucks the guy had lots of muscle cars & vettes(he was really into vettes & ahead of his time). They were all organized by make. I saw the first '69 W32 that I'd ever seen there(didn't really know what it was at that time other than it had an automatic with OAI) It was a complete running car that was for sale. Anyway I was there with my buddy Russ looking for an engine to replace the one he blew apart in his '69 442. He was 17 & it was his first car. The guy takes us over to where all his Olds' were. He had a totaled '70 W30 that looked like it had been wrapped around a tree. It was platinum silver with the red stripes,it was stunning to say the least! Even though wrecked on the left side, the colors looked so cool together I never forgot the car & I've never seen another one like it. I haven't been up there in years but I'd bet the place got cleaned out in the late '80s during the first muscle car boom. Oh, the guy wanted the "outrageous" price of $400 without the carb!!(you could buy used engines all day long for $50 back then but he knew what he had & how special it was.It was a stick motor to boot!!Way too rich for a 17 yr olds budget! Try that today!!

jstohlman

Not much of a picture 20+ years ago ,,, one fender repainted but mostly original paint,

Diego

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Diego

It's a recommended combo, but red seems to be possibly the rarest stripe color for 1970 for some reason.

Here's some other cars in that combo.

1969w3155

Of the red striped cars, I have seen more '69 Platinum/red than any other year. One very nice car was a '68 Ram Rod 350 that was for sale at Homecoming about 15 years ago ($13k and nice) as it was Jade Gold with a parchment vinyl top and a red stripe to boot, a really nice car.

rob1960

I agree,I've seen a few '69s with the platinum/red combo. gorgeous cars especially when they have the big stripes on the hood & a red interior. Don't forget, Olds for some reason, didn't offer a red interior in it's a-bodies for '70(pontiac & chebby still did)maybe that's why the platinum/red is so rare. Another awesome combo is the burgundy mist with red stripes,anyone have any pics of one?? There was a '68 W30 convert on Ebay a while back is was supposedly a real W30. It was ocean turquoise like my 442 with a red stripe on the fender,it looked pretty cool. Red wasn't a stripe color available with turquoise according the the color chart but we all know if you had the right salesman or dealership pretty much anything was possible. Found a couple of pics on the web,I like the white with the blue stripes

442Fred

I will post some pics of it tomorrow, i only have a few that i scanned so quality is just ok but you will get the idea.

The car just arrived back home after a 22 year vacation on the east coast which only added about 1600 miles from when i sold in 1992. It was not driven but transported.

Not sure about putting the gold stripes back on as the paint looks pretty good and no reason to start over yet.