Frank3

I've been asked if my car is a Holiday Coupe , I see the title after a lot of the cars here . I know all sorts of useless things . And have searched for it , but don't seem to be able to find WHAT Holiday means , or what makes a Holiday coupe or sedan ?
Can someone enlighten me please ?

Allan R

If that's your car in the pic it's a Holiday coupe because it doesn't have a pillar between the front and back glass. What's the cars VIN? It will help prove whether the car is a holiday coupe.

Frank3

vin is 336878E154766
I know difference between coupe and sedan , and I know its a S .
I just don't know were the word Holiday fits in .
Does it mean vinyl top , or a trim level ?

AZ455

That is interesting to know! I also have wondered this before.

What do you need to watch for in the VIN?

Is it any Hardtop, pillar-less, car?

AZ455

Don't know this websites accuracy, since I have never heard of it before, but it states the following:

MDchanic

What that says.

Holiday is the Olds word for "hardtop."

GM VINs show whether hardtop or pillar, 2d, 4d, conv., or wagon, and trim level (F-85, Cutlass, Supreme, Delmont / Delta / Royale, etc.).

- Eric

Frank3

Then people adding Holiday on a sedan , or car with a b pillar and window frame on the door, are wrong ?

fourtwenty

Year:


1968Division:OldsmobileSeries:Cutlass S (V8)Body:2dr Holiday HardtopPlant:Linden, New JerseySerial Number:154766

MDchanic

Right.

Frank3

Thanks

Allan R

Olds did make a 4 door hardtop sedan - in the Cutlass Supreme line. The lower trim levels were all pillared sedans IIRC. So it would be proper for a 68-72 4 door Cutlass to be called a sedan. But then you had to look at whether it had pillars between the A pillar and Sail panel.

2 door cars with B pillars are called Post coupes. Same logic as above

Starting in 73, Olds changed their branding process with sedans. None of the 4 door sedans had full door post construction - but Olds came up with the term : Colonnade Hardtop. This was creative to say the least. But it reflected that there was a pillared support between the front and rear doors.

For some reason they also called the new line of 2 doors 'colonade' hardtops. FWIW this was not limited to Olds - it also was branded onto Buick, Pontiac and Chevrolet.

From the same dictionary:
Colonnade: When used in an Oldsmobile model name, describes a car body that has frameless door glass/window yet kept a center pillar like a 4 door would. Typically the colonnade term was used only on 2 door body cars, but GM also used it on 4 doors, which some believed to be ad agency gibberish.

rocketraider

Well, there were Holiday Coupes (2-door hardtop), Holiday Sedans (4-door hardtop), and Fiesta Holidays (4-door hardtop station wagons).

Then there were late-70s Holiday 88s which were actually 2-door post coupes with buckets/console, and 80s Ciera Holiday Coupes which were again 2-door post cars with fancy interior trim and a padded vinyl roof.

But generally speaking Holiday is Olds-speak for a hardtop (no B pillar) body style, 1949-1976.

Olds Dad

I also heard some nutjob on CO named his daughter Holiday...oh wait a minute..

fdwheelman

Whew....

I was gonna say don't forget us 78-80 Holiday 88s. I assumed that the Holiday name for these animals meant that it was a "dress up" package for the 78-80... Kinda like Olds was trying to recapture a little of it's past as it moved forward into the future...

1970cs

Here are examples of post non post cars

cutlassgal

So Teepo and Allan R's car would be considered "Holiday" coupes??

oldzy

'Holiday' ... 'Little Limo'

1969w3155

The red '70 is a post coupe.

rocketraider

For as little love as four-doors get, that blue 70 Supreme Holiday Sedan is a looker. Picture it with a cutout bumper, maybe lowered just a tad with suspension upgrades, and you have progenitor of some of these modern "sport sedans".

Allan R

Yep, although in the sales brochures they are listed as 2 door hardtop coupes. The VIN provides the body style for what version of F, G or J the car was.

DeltaPace77

Don't know much about the Holiday's history, but my cars a 77' Delta 88 pace car, with silver/black paint treatment. In 78' Olds came out with a Holiday 88 version, with dark silver where my car is black. Kinda the same paint treatment as the Corvette anniversary edition of that year.

rocketraider

That was one of the two-tone combinations that were making a comeback in the late 70s. Holiday 88s could be had in any of the colors for their production year. See fdwheelman's white one above.