Well, its getting nicer here in Georgia now , weather is not as wet as it,s been , so I finally got out an did some cosmetic things to the 88.

With help from a fellow member here , who got me sorted with a front grill emblem i was missing (thanks again Dennis :-) )
and an NOS rear emblem off flea bay.

Put me in the mood to wash ,wax , an buff the old girl :-)

here are the results

http://picasaweb.google.com/paul.dee.../66Oldsmobile#

Not looking so bad for a 66 ?

 

Good looking car!

 

Nice,

like the collor of it.

 

Very nice. I like that it's a four-door.

I think that, of the large-Oldsmobile era that began in 1964 and ended in 1976, the '66s were the nicest-looking. Just something clean, simple, and attractive about them. I have a '67 Delta 88, and I like it more than life itself, but with that big, pushed-forward looking front end with the fender sides that extend well beyond the headlights, I've never thought it was anybody's idea of an award-winning design.

Compare the front end of my car with the front end of yours.





See what I mean? The '66s had a bit of fender extension beyond the headlights, and you could see from the '66 what was likely to happen for '67, and it did! More pronounced extension of the center of the front of the hood, more chrome trim around the headlights, shorter, more pronounced and protruding grille. In short, Olds took everything the '66s had and made them gaudier for '67.


Just for comparison, here's a '68 Delta 88 photo I stole off the web. A bit toned back from the '67s. Olds did one nice thing and actually move the turn signals TO those fender extensions, rather than having them between the headlights. It was about this time that the law went into effect that that required that turn signals/parking lights be visible from the side as well as the front. This certainly was not the case for the '67.




Olds toned it back even more for '69 and '70 before changing to the last large body style for the '71-'76s, which I've also always liked. But the '66 tops them all.

 

Great looking car. I am a huge fan of the large Oldsmobiles. They have the best style lines of any of the big cars

 

the 66 hase a cleaner look at the frontbumper.
it fit's nicere than the 69 at frontbumper and hood.
but i prever the lines of the 69 model.
A pitty that later models uses more plastic stuf and covers like the stone shield and headlightcover
Its fragile and hard to replace

my dreamcar is the era between 50 an 60ies, maybe it comes on my path in the future.
But it's hard to vind a decent priced care here in the netherlands specialy the 50 and 60ies models.

 

66s are sharp, a close second in my book to the 65s. The "split-grille" theme that defined Olds for a generation or more came later, but I prefer the earlier "dumb-bell" effect of the grill and headlight surrounds.

I always thought 66 was when the big cars really started looking massive, almost as though that was the intension. And of course there's is the Toronado influence, already noted perhaps in the fender "pontooing".

 

(Thank You) I'm happy I was able to be of some help, Your car looks GREAT!!

 

Thanks everyone for the positive comments :-)

My Car has a strong family history , it was my wifes uncles Car, and I bought it after he passed away
He had done a ton off work on the Car , and all I can take credit for is finishing off what he started.

It,ll take me Years to do all I want to do to her ,
but its a great way of spending time , and it keeps me out off trouble :-)

 

Oh by the way,
I nearly forgot,
I bought an original 1966 Oldsmobile sales brochure off ebay a week ago
it arrived a couple days ago, absolutely superb , brand new never been touched totally original
Paid like $15 + shipping for it
Totally fantastic book/sales brochure , the way they used to be
lots of nice pictures an stuff

this is it , but its from a different seller

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1966-...item53dea563f8

 

Very nice 66. Love the fact that it's a 4 door on top of the shear beauty of the car.

Btw, any particular reason for the screen name satellitecentral?

 

Naw , not really
nick name given to me years ago , by a friend
I had a 2 metre sat dish , at my house for years before most had sat TV in the uk
he quipped one night
"Your house is like Satellitecentral!"
guess it just stuck with me , lol

 

I wouldn't have thought you had enough land area to cover such a large dish. On the other hand, you found a place to park your behemoth. I'm guessing you don't live in a 'council flat'.

 

No , lol
I USED to live in the UK,
Not anymore :-)
I,m now doww here in the Deep South off the US
Milledgeville Georgia :-)

There,s plenty room to park , the Olds :-)

 

And if you all feel like a laugh :-)
This is what I used to drive in the UK
Northern Ireland to be exact



476 cc , 2 cylinder, Diesel , Automatic !!!!
My John Deer lawn tractor has a bigger engine

 

nice looking '66 dynamic you have there - brings back memories of my dad's 66 delta 88 celebrity sedan... Ours had the super rocket with the quadra-jet carb on it... some guy rear-ended it, and the car was maybe 6-7 months old, and he always kept them a year, but we had to get a 67 a little earlier than expected that time.... After 66, he went back to the holiday hardtop oldsmobiles again...


Our 67 was that cream color like the one in the pic above... was the first cream one - all dad's were usually white - since our 64 tan super 88... but IIRC the 67 was called a delta 88 custom, but I'd have to look that up to be sure... But I know that our 1968 was a 88 custom... (white with black vinyl top)...

 

The 1966 B/C Olds are my favorite year also. I have a solid 1966 Dynamic 88 conv. buried in one of my buildings. It's on my "list" of things I want to do but one only has so much time and $. Hopefully I will get to if I have enough life left in me. Good luck with your Dynamic 88. As you can see, I've "saved" a couple 4-doors also, my "Money-Pits. Ken