Looking for 68 nocturne Blue 442 convertible from Watertown NY
June 12th, 2018, 06:56 PM
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Looking for 68 nocturne Blue 442 convertible from Watertown NY
This is an EXTREMELY long shot. Also a long story sorry. Seeing if anyone on here knows of the whereabouts of this car. My grandfather Duke Castle who lived in the neighboring town of Brownville NY on Old military rd. traded it in the early 70’s to Quick Motors in Watertown NY for a 72 Delta convertible. A neighbor of theirs a few miles down Old MilItary Rd. Had it parked out by the road and Someone came up over a blind hill and wrecked it. My dad last saw it sitting under a tarp on Division st. In Watertown back in the mid 70’s. Wanted to know if anyone had purchased it to restore or somehow knew the story of it on here. Thought it’d be cool to reunite my dad with the car he still to this day talks about more than any other. Car description: 68 442 nocturne blue with white pinstripes, no side stripe, wire wheels, black top, blue interior, bucket seats, three speed auto on the floor. I don’t know how rare optioned the car was, but thought I’d start here and on Craigslist for Watertown and see if anyone knew of anything. Unfortunately we have no vin or paperwork from when my family owned it. I think it was originally bought off of being demo’d By the owner of Quick motors’ wife. Any assistance anyone can provide would be appreciated.
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June 12th, 2018, 08:10 PM
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No one was restoring '68 Oldsmobiles in the mid-'70s as the cars were still too new and readily available, so there would have been no need to spend the money to bring a wrecked one back to life. It's 99.99999% certain that, if the car was wrecked in the mid-'70s, it was towed to a junkyard and crushed and has been part of a bridge somewhere for the last 30 or 40 years.
June 12th, 2018, 08:21 PM
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No one was restoring '68 Oldsmobiles in the mid-'70s as the cars were still too new and readily available, so there would have been no need to spend the money to bring a wrecked one back to life. It's 99.99999% certain that, if the car was wrecked in the mid-'70s, it was towed to a junkyard and crushed and has been part of a bridge somewhere for the last 30 or 40 years.
I appreciate your honesty, Again I knew it was a long shot, just thought I’d try.
June 12th, 2018, 08:51 PM
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As noted, you've got absolutely nothing to lose by asking. You're not the first person to come onto this site with a story like yours and hoping to find a car they hadn't seen in decades. As far as I know, none of them have ever come back to report success in their search.
Your problem is compounded by the fact that the car was wrecked. There would have been no reason for anyone to keep it.
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