Were there any Rallye 350 produced that were not yellow. In my home town in the early 80"s I remember seeing a red one and a blue one. Their bumpers were painted , the stripes and the sticker emblems were there. It was at a time that Olds clones were not a big item. We did have 2 real ones in the area.

 

As far as I know, Rallye's were only yellow. Never heard any different, and never seen any different.

 

The area that I live in seems to spawn lots of rare and odd production cars. I also thought they were all yellow.

 

Ya like bliny the fish on the simpsons .

 

Sebring Yellow was the only color for the Rallye 350. there was a guy near my area that painted a cutlass red with red bumpers and put the Rallye 350 decals on it. that was in the late 80s. it did not look good in red.

 

Maybe he took a trip to Canada. I only saw each one once. The blue one at a motel. The red one was making a right turn at an intersection where I was making a left. I had an OAI hood on my Cutlass at the time. I looking his car all over. When I looked at the driver I noticed he was looking my car all over. Humorous I thought.

 

Mine was yellow but did have Chrome Bumpers front and Rear. With my additional Cragers it was damn good looking Car.. I saw some 69 hurst Olds painted blue and red before so anyone could have repainted the Car any way they wanted. Might be what your thinking.Back then it didn't mean that much to keep them original.

 

All of them came Sebring Yellow with yellow urethane coated bumpers.

That said, a lot of them either had chrome bumpers installed or were repainted to move them off the lots. There were a pile of those in Greensboro NC and surrounding area, because Black Oldsmobile ordered about 75 of them and then couldn't move some of them till they were painted a different color.

Black's Rallye 350 ad campaign was "Curious (Yellow) Cars. See them at Black." It was a takeoff on the "I am Curious (Yellow)" soft **** movie that had come out a year or so before.

 

i have heard some stories about this. do you know of any pictures of them on the lot? i would love to find copies of any of them i can get.

 

Are you sure they were Rallye 350s? In the early 70s pont. had the Judge. Had eyebrow stickers like the 350, deck spoiler, and it could be had in red, blue and orange,white, and at least 1 in black. Probably other colors too.

 

Tney were not Judges. I know someone who had a 70 Judge(orange) way back when. They had the Rallye decal package not just the W25. I had a Rallye before I saw these so they stuck out for me.

 

I'm thinking maybe Black wasn't the only one.

 

Bob Brannan (former Oldsmobile Zone Rep for the Tar Heel State, and former 1st owner of my red '68 Toronado), told me this story two years ago.
Bob said is was about 100 Rallyes that Black Oldsmobile ordered.
Bob was doing a press meeting, for the Rallye 350, in the spring of 1970.
The owner of Black Olds was drinking a bit (ie he was felling pretty good), and shouted out "I'll take 100 of them".
I was told some Rallyes, had the bumpers replaced with chrome units (on both repainted and yellow cars).
I have been told over the years between 12-13 Rallyes (out of 3500+) had W-31 motors.
To look for a real deal Rallye, look for an XX or --, for the color code on the firewall tag.
About 2005, there was a red 1970 442 clone (it might of had a 455), son-of a gun, it was a real-deal Rallye 350.

Here is a little story, that the former General Manger of Chalpin Olds/Cadilliac(Portland, Maine, moved to Falmouth,ME, in 1966) told me about 4 years ago.

The daughter of (that now defunt East-coast, Valley's resturant chain, heck the salemen were driving Cadillacs for company cars), trading in her year old orange 1969 GTO Judge and bought a brand new red 1970 Olds 442 W-30 ragtop with every option(white guts , white stripe, four speed, might of have a/c(she got was she wanted, money was no object to this family)). The bill on that car was about $5200 (1970 dollars). Anyho, not long have owned the W-30, she saw the Rallye 350 in the Spring of 1970.
She wanted a ragtop Rallye 350, but was not avail in that body syle.
So that W-30 was repainted in Sebing Yellow (with Rallye 350 emblems too). That is the wild story Big Erine told me.