Posted on AACA today. What do you see weird?

 

a Buick convertible with an Oldsmobile body tag?

 

Someone grabbed the wrong tag, or they ran out of Buick tags at that time, maybe

 

In 2011, I met the owner of the dealership that sold my '68 4-4-2 convertible as a "new" demo to my parents in March 1969 (the car had previously been owned by the zone office in Portland, OR, and then the dealership in Coos Bay, OR). The first thing he asked me was, "Is your car from Lansing or Fremont?" When I said Lansing, he said I was lucky! He got cars for his dealership from both Lansing and Fremont and he said he constantly got cars with "errors" from Fremont. My '69 4-4-2 convertible is from Fremont and from what I saw when I "refreshed" it, those words ring true - some missing grommets in the firewall, screws and other attaching pieces not there and appeared to never be there but all easily corrected. It appears that, with the cowl tag in the picture, someone dialed in a "4" instead of a "3".

Randy C.

 

The tag is actually on a 65 Skylark convertible. All the codes are correct for that car, just on the Olds plate. The attaching parts don't appear to have ever been disturbed.

I've always been amazed how Fremont kept four different carlines separated and organized with all four coming down the assembly line one behind the other.

 

I don't think I've ever seen the "Magic Mirror" paint callout

 

Prior to '67(?) I think.