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Old Jan 21, 2015 | 10:21 AM
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1962 Oldsmobile Starfire Evansville, IN

I am listing this for my father, Jerry Korff


Beautiful and correct Chariot Red paint. All chrome replated and stainless polished. Brand new $2500 JASWEST aluminum panels. Lotsa NOS parts including turn signal lenses, reverse lamp lenses, power antenna, shift **** button, front and rear spiral shocks, resonators, and mufflers. Beautifully installed and correct exhaust that has the correct downturn tips like 1962 had. It is quiet like it should be, runs and idles smooth. Correct size and type BF Goodrich Silvertown tires that belong on it. Best of class winner at Oldsmobile Club of America national meet in Bowling Green Kentucky. It always wins some sort of an award at the local shows it attends.


It runs and drives out great. The brakes stop good and true with a good firm pedal. The transmission shifts out as well as any one of those slim jim transmissions can except that if you go over 65 mph is likes to shift back down for some reason. We live in Evansville Indiana. Dad drove it to Bowling Green Kentucky and the National Antique Oldsmobile Club meet in Columbus Indiana with no problems. It has a brand new battery in it plus a fresh oil change so it is ready to go.


$19,500


Call Jerry Korff at 812 459-1438 for further details.
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Old Jan 21, 2015 | 11:48 AM
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That is one awesome car, someones going to get a great deal. The shifting issue maybe related to the trans linkage being out of adjustment and trying to go into passing gear..
Old Jan 21, 2015 | 02:54 PM
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A beaut and one heck of a price!
Old Jan 21, 2015 | 04:00 PM
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X3. Love the car. 62 has been my favorite year for Oldsmobile for a long time. A 62 Starfire is on my lists of Oldsmobiles I would like to have some day. This one is even my favorite interior color! Good luck with the sell.
Old Jan 22, 2015 | 06:48 AM
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It's a Korff car. 'Nuff said.
Old Jan 25, 2015 | 06:26 AM
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I remember looking at this car in Bowling Green at the Nationals. It is super nice!

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Old Jan 29, 2015 | 04:24 PM
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WOW, that is real nice.
Old Jan 30, 2015 | 06:53 AM
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Gorgeous car.

Want!
Old Jan 30, 2015 | 11:17 AM
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That's a steal. It would cost three times that to restore a Starfire to that level and that if you can find the parts. I'm sure it will be gone post haste. Good luck.
Old Feb 3, 2015 | 10:22 AM
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Nice looking car!!
Old Feb 4, 2015 | 11:10 AM
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Hi.


I am posting some more detail shots.


Thank you.
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Old Feb 5, 2015 | 11:34 AM
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I do not know what happened to my earlier post on this from today? I do not see it?

Question was: Is that a Starlite foam headliner in the car? Is it original or a replacement?

Cannot believe this car has not yet sold.
Old Feb 5, 2015 | 02:12 PM
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Headliner

The headliner material is not the original foam. The original foam is unobtainable, believe me. It cannot be found. What the Starfire community has done is to use this as an acceptable replacement. I can think of no less than 10 Starfires that have used this material. What it actually is...It is a Ford vinyl from the 60's. It is called something with the word "whip" and "cell" in the name. I can't remember what it is called. SMS in Oregon sells it. If you tell them what you are trying to do, they will know what you are talking about.


Anyhow. You take that material and have your trim shop run brown stitches acrossed it in the area where the foam was removed. Between the fact that you are looking at the material upside down in a headliner and the brown thread, it gives the effect of the foam with the lines it. I know it sounds kind of funky, but it looked correct enough that it got you to ask about it. You have to use a trim shop that has a machine with a big strong needle to stitch that thread through those cardboard panels. That is the key to making it look as correct as it does. Most trim shops don't want to *** with it because they generally don't have the equipment to do it.


The more I think about how much work and aggravation I have in helping my dad restore it, it almost makes sick to see it go. I sure hope it gets a good home. I just hope the next time I see it is not up on 24's and has two big loud Jethro exhaust pipes hangin straight out the back roaring with that old familiar glass pack RUM-BOW! That is so cowboy. The exhaust system as it sets is a work of art. It is so exactly 1962 it almost makes you think that if Van Gogh painted exhaust systems in his day, he would have used this one as his model. It is that good.

Dad called yesterday to tell me someone is thinking about coming down to look at it from Ohio. So who knows.


I think it is a little on the low side too as far as price, but dad just hates to bury somebody in it. This way it leaves a little room to see why the trans won't stay in high gear. It is probably something simple, but you never know. He never drove it over 60, so it never bothered him. I am the one that found out it did it...Imagine that?


Thank you for your question about the headliner.
Old Feb 11, 2015 | 03:13 PM
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TTT with more pictures!
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Old Feb 21, 2015 | 06:45 PM
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Quite a sweet looking ride!

Can you tell us the long-term history of the car? Do you know how many total miles it has on the clock? Was there ever a frame-off or anything? I have a friend who's on the lookout for an Olds, although his tastes really run towards the '50s; but I think if he saw this, he might see the light (or the "fire").

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Old Feb 21, 2015 | 08:20 PM
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Truly stunning car...im a huge fan of the bumper and guard detail, cool as !
Old Dec 14, 2015 | 11:22 AM
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Sold

Car is sold. It went to a great home.
Old Dec 14, 2015 | 11:49 AM
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You know all your dad will do is find another one to restore!
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