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Woo Hoo. Love some participation. Nice car fellas. As a kid there was a silver 69 442. Sat in an alley. Looked like the silver car in the 69 442 brochure pictures. It was silver. No top. Factory red pinstripes. Red interior. 4 speed and gauges. Three spoke wheel. Tilt maybe too. Love that I grew up in the times that I did.
Last edited by no1oldsfan; May 18, 2021 at 07:44 PM.
I thought I would add these pictures and revive this thread. I have looked damn near everywhere for pictures of my 69 but I just can't seem to find any. This f-eightyfive W-31 in stock trim is one of my new all-time favorites.
This is my 1969. It is a W30 car but by the time I got it, it was missing the engine, transmission and correct rear end. I've talked with a guy who owned it in the early-mid 1980's when it had the correct drivetrain that's why I am confident its the real deal. But back when matching numbers meant little, things got replaced. The Car came out of New Mexico and there the block had frozen from lack of antifreeze. The person who brought it to Oregon gave the D heads to a fellow Olds guy in Bend. The car was in Albany Oregon when the TH400 went out and the owner turned it in as a core for a rebuilt transmission at a local transmission shop. It then sat in a barn for many years while the owner was overseas in the Military. Another person in Albany Oregon was pursuing it and the father of the owner sold it to them. They planned to make a race car out of it doing a father/son project. Then the father passed away from Cancer and I purchased the car from the son. It came with a black exterior and a parchment interior, automatic transmission with a sport steering wheel as the only option. I took fine sandpaper and gently worked the area the W30 decals would have been to see if they were under the primer that was sprayed over the paint. The decal was gone, but something caused the primer to come off where the letter/numbers were and can be seen on the front of the passenger fender. I've had this car for many years and been collecting parts to make it as correct as possible.
Here are a few of my '69.
Two with the original SS1's that I didn't think were cool in '82-'83. Man, I wish now I would have kept them. I only had the car a couple of weeks at this point, after my '68 was totaled..
And one shot after installing the AR CP200's, at Latin Quarter Apartments off Illif and Quebec. Now known as Woodhaven Apts.
Nice. I dig your car either way. Do you still have that car?
Our paths are funny. I lived at Iliff and Quebec Way for a while.
I wish! I blew a rod bearing. I did not have the means to fix it myself, nor could afford to have someone else do it. Not realizing what was wrong with it at the time, other than it made a lot of noise on acceleration and ran like crap, I traded it in on a '79 T/A from Burt Chevy/Toyota that was Sammy Hagar Red . Got $1500 trade-in credit for it. Two weeks later I saw it on a used car lot a few blocks north of Burt. Man, I wish I had disposable income then! At the used car lot, it had a sign in the window for $600!!!! It was still wearing my license plates. I would have bought it back in a flash if I had the cash.
WOW A 69 Thread. I didn’t want to be left out. Beautiful cars. Thanks
Is this a red interior car? There used to be a nice 69 442 4 speed car that sat in an alley in Englewood Colorado back in the eighties. Silver. Red pin stripe. Red interior. Your car is a nice car. 👍
. Got $1500 trade-in credit for it. Two weeks later I saw it on a used car lot a few blocks north of Burt. Man, I wish I had disposable income then! At the used car lot, it had a sign in the window for $600!!!! 
It was still wearing my license plates. I would have bought it back in a flash if I had the cash.
