$2000 car is complete but no engine or trany. I was driving upto about 5 years ago. Engine froze so I pulled it out and junked it. I know now it was a mistake. 2 door hard top

 

Welcome to the site. I suggest you include your location and some pictures.

 

I haven't figured out how to put the pics yet but I will sorry. Oh my location is san bernardino ca

 

The Jetfire was the only 2dr HT in the Cutlass/F85 line in 1962. All the other 2drs were post sedans. Which is it?

 

 

Located in san bernardino california

 

 

 

 

FYI, that's a 2dr sedan, not a hardtop.

 

2 doors means coup 4 doors means sadan and it's not a convertible so what else can it be other than a hard top ?

 

It's a 2-door "post" car meaning a pillar between the front and back windows on each side. A hardtop means no such post nor any frames around the side windows.

Both two and four-door cars can be hardtops. Four-doors are generally called sedans whether hardtops or with a center pillar, but there is such a thing as a 2-door sedan, although that terminology was never used by Olds that I'm aware of.


Here's a couple of pages out of the '62 Olds F-85 brochure. Olds called the 2-door pillared F-85 either a "sports" coupe or "club coupe."









Here's a page out of the '62 Jetfire brochure showing the two-door hardtop. No center pillar, no full frames around the side windows.

 

 

Coup means "overthrow the government"

Coupe REALLY means a two passenger vehicle, but is accepted today to be a two door vehicle. It USUALLY means a vehicle with a shorter wheelbase than a sedan (think 2+2 vs. a full size back seat). German automakers seem to think that any vehicle with a "fastback" is now a "coupe", even with four or more doors...

Sedans can be two or four doors. MOST people call a 2dr hardtop a "coupe" and a 2dr post car a "sedan". I realize Olds did not do that, making up the terms "Club Coupe" or "Sport Coupe" instead. As with "Rocket V8", those are marketing names.

Some car lines actually had different rooflines for the 2dr hardtop and 2dr sedan models:

 

When you roll down both side windows is there a B pillar or post or is it just wide open? It looks to me like you have no post so it would be a hardtop or am I just not seeing something? I hate looking at pics on my phone, can't make out anything on those angled pics!

 

See any weatherstrip around this door opening?



You don't, which means that this is NOT a hardtop. There would have to have been a roof rail weatherstrip for the glass to seal against. The 2dr sedans have a metal frame around the window on the door, so the weatherstrip is on that frame, not on the door opening.

And as I mentioned above, the ONLY hardtop in the 1962 F-85 line was the Jetfire, which this car is not.

 

I never knew about the window piller that's prity damb cool. I had this car for 22 years and you wher the first person to ever tell me that thank you. This Web site is awesome iv learned so much in just a few days. You guys rock

 

I love this car but i have two little boys in little leage and they want a batting cage for Christmas. I already have the cage but i need the space where the car is. so i really need to find her a good home. I love this car but i love my boys a lot more. Please help me out if anyone can.

 

That's a neat little car. Always liked that floor shifter and short console.

 

Thank you very much

 

Still for sale?

 

Great example to show how different they can be .. I had the 300 Deluxe like you show there.. As you know, it was very different from the Malibu or SS models.. I should have kept that 300