66gutlass

I have so much work ahead of me on this car, and perhaps I will seek out some answers on this forum in due time. For now id just like to settle some big debates, so that I can stay focused on my end goal, if that makes any sense. For starters, I would love to see some different paint colours on 66s, I was thinking a sort of champagne gold on this car but have been wow'ed by some awesome dark blue paints. Id love to see what your rides look like, so post em up!! Thanks all!!

cfair

Have a look on EBay for the ‘66 Olds Sales materials — Olds distributed a book to the dealers each year with that year’s colors & fabric swatches. It’s a blue plastic binder with paint chips and fabric glued to pages. Can recommend target red and autumn bronze exterior colors (hah!), but the gold is on point for the period.

Other big & serious advice, be sure to pick up a real 1966 Oldsmobile Chassis Service Manual and the associated 1966 Fisher Body Manual. Collectively these are the books you need to maintain the car. Hard to overstate the importance of factory advice on repair procedures. Check EBay and you might also check Faxon’s car literature. They’re a west coast outfit, but I bought mine there (decades ago - probably from the Dad) I believe the kids run the operation now. Joe P would say avoid the reproductions, I’d have to agree, only because I keep seeing originals out there for $40 or $60 bucks.

The sales stuff is more rare and therefore more expensive. Also see WildAboutCars. Sign up, pay some, and you’ll find assembly manuals in PDF form. Worth their weight in bits. Somebody at some point did decent scans of factory assembly manuals which I’ve found very, very useful. I wish I’d known/found them in the 80’s.

Hope this helps,
Chris

Andy

Google 1966 cutlass 442 images, every color in the rainbow will come up. Sierra Mist and Champagne Mist are the champagne / gold correct colors for 66.

fleming442

Autumn bronze is my favorite

67OAI

Autumn Bronze is a beautiful one year only Oldsmobile color which most photographs just do not capture correctly. It is my favorite 1966 color also.

fleming442

Agreed, I looked through several pics on the search and they all show differently.

66-3X2 442

I think Autumn Bronze was used across all GM lines in 66. It was the same color under different names.

Cossack

Mines original, a bit faded, maybe more than a bit.

cfair

Have an autumn bronze Starfire. Didn’t realize it was popular. I like it.

Sometimes I call it “Rust Metallic”. For fun.

Chevy reused the paint code in the later 60’s as “Aztec Bronze”

Chris

cherokeepeople

buick it was riviera red, and chevies it was aztec bronze.cady and pontiac didn't use it.

35tac

To me that looks like "Lucerne Mist" D code. My favorite. Not many seen. My first 66 Cutlass vert. Bought new pictured on delivery day.

1966 cutlass convert 2

66gutlass

Yeah these cars are beautiful. thanks for the pictures. seeing these cars helps me picture more then piles of parts and headaches in my future.

dgannott

Mine is Royal Mist blue.