Special order paint 442's & Rallye 350's
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Special order paint 442's & Rallye 350's
Ok, so I'm sure I'm digging up bones here, but anyone have pics of special order paint 442's or the Rallye 350's that were prototype colors? Remember seeing a thread about the Rallye 350's but must be crushed/hidden or repainted. Also an interesting purple '70 W-30 convertible. Just love seeing the colors GM let go through outside stock colors. Thanks!
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Just an Olds Guy
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Special order paint on the car wouldn't necessarily be shown on the cowl tag. Typically a special order (a color not on the production year color palette for Olds) would be shown as a -- on the cowl tag. That makes the research hard to determine the color. The Rallye 350 was Sebring Yellow code 51. The Olds literature for paint code acknowledges this as a special order color, and also indicates it would show as -- on the cowl tag.
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I can't find it at the moment but I believe Jacoz is referring to the post about the Rallye 350 being painted lime green, grape, candy apple red, and Sebring Yellow, to decide production color.
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Soot on here! Love to find out more about these and and other “-“ cars as GM allowed a lot outside the normal color palette to dealers if you knew the right people and things to do. Hope to hear some info on the Rallyes and see some “-“ special paint cars.
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https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...where-how.html
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Allen, that Cutlass S convertible would probably be a lot easier to build than a Rallye 350 convertible. I am surprised nobody has ever built a Rallye 350 convertible or wagon. I just think they would be cool.
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Just an Olds Guy
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Here is the post I was referring too. See post 15 from davebw31 (Dave B.) Keep in mind these were only considered colors. All Rallye 350's were built Sebring Yellow.
https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...where-how.html
https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...where-how.html
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The one thing I missed until I just read through these threads for the jillionth time, is that the various colors were applied to 1969 Cutlass models, not the new '70 body style. If those cars still exist, they're just '69 Cutlass S models with a different paint job.... Still, it would be fun to make a different color Rallye with the '70 style - who has good photoshop skills?
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