A couple of not so great pics of my first 70 Cutlass S in 1974.

 

I still remember the Jet-a-Way shifted out of first at 72 mph

 

Although its not that long ago., here is a pic of me and my friends out for my car's maiden cruise. Next to me is my friends 79 mustang and in the back is my friends 87 aero coupe monte carlo, Not pictured was my fiancés k5 blazer. My friends and I have since grown up started lives of our own some how im the only one who managed to keep his car. I love this thread I love the stories.

 

The jetaway shifting out of first at 72mph?!! Holy Smokes! I thought I was living on the edge when I would shift my dad's '66 F-85 Deluxe out of first at 45mph!!

Randy C.

PIC OF MY DAD AND HIS '66 F-85 DELUXE!

 

Here is my 71 442 from 1979, was living in Pittsburgh, PA at the time.


TS

 

My dad got me into Olds from the beginning. Here are the first two I ever rode in. First one I came home from the hospital in. Both photos taken the same day when the new one came home. Note the window sticker in the window. I'm hanging out in the back seat at 3 years old...

 

Here's a few from back in the day. Red car: 1978, bought it in Boulder CO. I painted it and put (then new) takeoff wheels from a Z-28. took it to a few shows and people asked "who painted it". Thus started my business. Sold it a year later. Pace car: 1981, I bought it in Az. with about 13k miles. I put about 16k more on it and sold it. Hurst/Olds Golf cart: I built it out of sheet metal for the 97 centennial. Sold it about five years ago. ~BOB

 

My Grandfather's '56, 67 and '72 which is now mine

 

My first Olds was a '72 Supreme, orange with a white vinyl top. I bought it in the spring of my senior year (1987). Not a bit of rust anywhere. One of the cleanest my dad and I had seen. It needed trans work so we got a really good deal on it. After 1 transmisson rebuild, 2 torque convertors, and a new flywheel, we still couldn't get rid of the 'wobbly knocking noise' under the trans tunnel/floor. We finally threw in the towel and sold it in August of the same year. I don't have any pics scanned right now....

In late August of '87 I picked up this '71 with plans to have the body redone, along with the typical teenager add-ons of headers, Holley carb, etc.
This pic here is in November, the morning we pulled it into the garage to begin the tear down in order to send it off to a 'weekend' body guy for a body job over the winter.....

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This is the finished pic, taken around June of '88.



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I ended up selling it in Sept of '89. I had gotten into 4 wheeler ATV's and needed a truck to haul the Honda 250r.

Biggest regret to date.......

I tracked down the guy I sold it to thru Facebook 3 years ago hoping that maybe he still had it, but he had sold it many years ago after joining the Army.

 

Yikes! I never thought about the Olds Centenial as being "back in the day", but I guess 16+ years is enough.

A look back: http://wmachines.shubes.net/100wm.html

 

I would LOVE to get my hands on one of those '72 Hurst Olds' go kart bodies in your third pic.

 

Wow, Kurt, you look so YOUNG! Of course, Linda always looks so young, had my picture snapped in Arlington TX at the beginning of Hot Rod Power Tour last year. She is quite a gal, with a huge sense of humor.
Aron

 

Great picture - love the stance.

 

Seeing Ken's 'nut-hugger' shorts inspired me to post my own 'nut-huggers' pic (again). Washing my 2 week old '86 442.

 

My old man after getting married to my mom, 1970. His first of 3 65 442s, all before I was born.

 

I'll add a few of mine from the early days of my car ownership.

First car: June 1986 (right after high school graduation) - 1971 Pontiac LeMans Sport, 350 2 bbl., buckets and console. Super clean N. Carolina car, bought for $1800. Sold it that Fall so that it would not sit outside while I was at school. The next owner hit something head on, just like with his Buick GS that this car replaced. Pardon the '80s gym shorts....

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Next is my first Olds - a 1979 Supreme, purchased in May 1989. 260 V8 with Monte Carlo SS-style duals.

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And finally, my first classic Olds - a Viking Blue 1972 Cutlass Supreme, purchased on July 3, 1991. 350 4 bbl., HD suspension, rallye pack, full docs. This car is the one that cemented my obsession with this color and body style. The first pic is in early Fall 1991 in original paint. The second pic is Fall 1992 after I had the body and top redone.

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Original Pittsburgh Post Gazette ad. When I called and the seller said it was "like LeMans Blue" I couldn't get over to see it fast enough!

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I sold the car in 1998 after I bought a '72 LT-1 Corvette for my 30th birthday. My soon to be ex-succubus told me I couldn't have both. I bought this car back in 2003 and sold it again in 2005 (I may be off by a year on those dates). Don't rule out a third round of ownership someday....

Terry

 

My wife (then fiancee) and me back in 1982 with my first Starfire. Still had the snow tires on the back, must have been early spring.

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My first car, 1968 Cutlass Supreme 4-door. In the garage the gas tank would leak, outside of the garage the tank would not leak. Weird. I bought the car for $150 in 1977.

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Found this awesome pic of my Pops and his 72' doing a little touch up work, rocking out the mini Afro circa 1979. This is the car that I hope to have back someday. Unfortunately I came along in the mid 80s and my mother made him sell it.

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In April 1953, my dad (AM99888) married his one true love, my mom. They honeymooned in Florida and this was one of the photos that was taken on that trip. I asked Mom once why she looked so grumpy. She laughed and said she wasn't; it was just windy and the sun was in her eyes. I think it's a great pic of Mom with Dad's '49 88 2dr Club Sedan.

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My rides are pictured in my signature. Well, the '54 is actually Dad's, but I have a lot of hours in it... Being behind the camera all of the time, I don't appear in any of the pics.

 

Anyone from the Denver area at the time will recall the Christmas Blizzard of '82. My '68 Cutlass as it stood at the time (Too Cool, right after I painted it), then buried in the blizzard - officially 23.8 inches in 24 hours, but we had it three feet deep in Aurora, with drifts as tall as the house. After the storm, over the next week or three as the town thawed and melted out, I was rear-ended on the highway (OW! My neck STILL hurts!) and the car was totaled-out per the insurance. They were only going to give me $500 for it, but I had a Purchase Order in hand for a used '79 403/4spd TA that said my trade-in value on the Cutlass was $1500. Insurance gave me the money and let me take what I wanted off the Cutlass. I used $1300 of the cash to buy the replacement REAL 442, then put all the goodies from the Cutlass onto the 442. I did well on that one, but I should have kept the wheels! I was young and dumb and threw a rod-bearing on the 442 and traded it in on a different '79 TA. Here's irony for you - I could have bought the 442 back at auction for $600 two weeks later. I didn't have the money

 

Okay this isn't that old but at least 10 years
I owned many olds in my life I think before this my first was a 88 delta 88 two door and my 2nd was a 79 cutlass lowered and my third was a 81 I got for a shop project in school but was stolen before any work really into it any how now my fourth was what made me a olds guy bought this rusted out beast from my uncle I actually borrowed it because my truck broke down but I didn't want to give it back so I offered to buy it

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This was 2001

And this was 2004

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Sadly I sold it as part of my divorce agreement, but I got the better end of the deal

 

Gotta say I'm really enjoying all of your pics and stories that go with.


I'm inspired to dig up the photo of my 79 Starfire the day my wife dressed up as "Big Bird" for our 4 year old nephew's birthday party. May take some searching but I'll post it soon.

 

Moms V.C. 1974 ish?

 

Great thread. I've owned more Oldsmobiles in my life than any other make. This was the first one, a 64 Dynamic 88 4-door hardtop, white with a dark green interior and a 394 two-barrel. It was very solid for an Illinois car, no rust but a few dents. I pounded the dents out and spot painted it with one of those cheap electric sprayers that made a loud buzzing noise. The finish was terrible but it was good old lacquer so I polished it out and it wasn't too bad. I drove that car on trip to Colorado, for someone used to 1950s Fords it was like driving a magic carpet. I loved the 394 and Slim Jim so much I bought another 64 as well as the 63 I have now.

 

Okay, if almost 22 years ago counts:










Looks the same today. All original except for fluids, filters, and battery.

 

Wmachine, that is a car to hold on to! I always loved these, it's too bad most aren't around anymore

 

Just a couple of mine, B&W 67 from 1976, and around 1978 at ATCO.

 

I paid $600 for my '66 that I posted earlier in 1988! Here's my 2nd Olds, 1966 F-85 Deluxe 4 dr hardtop that I bought from the original owner in Austin, had just 32k miles, freeze yer nutz off factory a/c, paid $2000, this pic was taken at a cruise night in Round Rock, Tx 1991 when I was stationed at Ft Hood, Tx. menesther.jpg

 

My Uncles car, never saw it. But I have a cool picture. Note the "Rebel" lettering!

 

My son in high school with my 1970 Oldsmobile. Then a picture of him with the 1972 Oldsmobile after serving in the U.S. Air Force.

 

Like someone else said this thread made me go back and scan some old pics. Believe it or not this is 1969 Hurst/Olds #74, I bought it in spring of 1978. Clapped body, wrong color, wrong spoiler, wrong wheels. I found a bunch of stuff so I think I'll tell the whole story in another thread in the H/O part of the forum.

 

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This is me (in the pedal car) along with my sister, and my 64 in the garage "watching".

I was the reason mom and dad purchased the car, with a 3rd child on the way, mom wanted a larger family car than the Corvair. The F-85 fit the bill.

The F-85 was the first car i rode in!

 

I had a 1967 Toronado in the early 80s, a real nice car I bought from the original owner. I did a paint job, exhaust, brakes, A/C and not much more. Had a hard time finding the correct chrome tailpipe tips. It had the one-year-only fixed caliper disc brakes, they never worked right. A great looking and great driving car, worst gas mileage EVER.

 

I used to go to that cruise in Round Rock, a little after 91 though. All gone now, the newer spot is Cabelas in Buda these days.
Tim

 

Here's some pics of my first 1970 442 W-30. Traded a 1960 El Camino I paid $50 for and took over payments. Cowboy named Mike traded me because he couldn't afford it. I virtually lived in that car for the next 6 years until my now ex-wife sold it for $1,000 while I was in Korea. What I would give to get that one back it had a numbers matching W-30 motor, real W-27 differential with 3.91 gears.

 

wow sorry to hear that, I hope one day you find something close
Dean