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Sad about the ash tray, but maybe that's still included. I'd make that a condition of payment for that kind of change.
Speaking of missing things, I'd want the radiator seal on the driver side, too.
Not sure if it's worth almost 200K to me, but to someone I guess it is. It's certainly a beauty.
One thing I did notice is that MOST restorations use repro glovebox decals. Which is ok. Gotta do what you gotta do. Only main drawback with those is that they don't require the thin, clear plastic "window" that affixes on top of the decal. When I got my car, the edges of the original decal under the window were delaminating and looking like crap, similar to this car's. The decal is actually sandwiched in-between the glove box and little window with adhesive on both sides, but any 69 owner with a good eye knows the little landing pad for the decal has a slight groove around the edge as an aluminum plate would normally go there. The decal typically doesn't age well along that grooved edges. I painstakingly was able to carefully remove mine from the glovebox, and send it to a decal company to replicate it. Even after 3 attempts of their art department trying, it's not perfect, but it's better than all the others I've seen. I still had a few tweaks I wanted them to fix but they were ready to tell me to F.O. so I took what I could get. I couldn't get the double adhesive though, but it was on chrome mylar. I still have my little window so I'm trying to figure out the best way to apply adhesive to it to look as close to orginal as possible. Lost the decal pretty much once I removed it. Maybe I can get some made to size with crystal clear adhesive on the back side...
You can almost always tell the repros if you look close enough. The shape of the "S" normally gives them away.
Nice car, clean.... bold price.
All what someone is willing to pay, or bid it up to.
Fair enough, I'm nit pickin' but a few items I would want not to have given the "Concourse Frame Off Resto" and the price....
This car was Tim Muprhy's (442murph) car he was building when he passed. He had it about 75% done. The person who bought from the estate sent it to a shop who does his Pontiacs to finish. Anyone that knew Tim knows it would not have been like that if he finished it. The car had five miles on it when he took ot to Indy.Two bidders in the room and one of them owned a GMC dealership. A friend of Berine Korkuff bought the car. I spoke withe owner and the car is going to Bernie's shop to get several things corrected. I am actually going to send the owner the 100-125 pics I have of the car when Tim owned it. Guy who finished it owned just long eneough to flip it for a profit.
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This car was Tim Muprhy's (442murph) car he was building when he passed. He had it about 75% done. The person who bought from the estate sent it to a shop who does his Pontiacs to finish. Anyone that knew Tim knows it would not have been like that if he finished it. The car had five miles on it when he took ot to Indy.Two bidders in the room and one of them owned a GMC dealership. A friend of Berine Korkuff bought the car. I spoke withe owner and the car is going to Bernie's shop to get several things corrected. I am actually going to send the owner the 100-125 pics I have of the car when Tim owned it. Guy who finished it owned just long eneough to flip it for a profit.
Sending to a Pontiac shop explains why the shifter is straight instead of curved. Very nice car with just a few items to change to be perfect. Tim is grealy missed.
For those concerned about the missing armrest ashtray, I just looked it up -- turns out some nice looking repops are available from numerous sources for $40-
60, your choice.
And don't go telling me the H/O came with limited production numbered ashtrays autographed by Doc Watson.
For those concerned about the missing armrest ashtray, I just looked it up -- turns out some nice looking repops are available from numerous sources for $40-
60, your choice.
And don't go telling me the H/O came with limited production numbered ashtrays autographed by Doc Watson.
For me it's more about if you are going to overlook an ashtray and the funky exhaust hangers, what else is funky that we can't see?
I build and work on my own cars. I've never paid a shop for restoration work, but it certainly seems like there are countless examples that prove it doesn't matter where you go or how much you pay, it's never as good as doing it yourself. Those exhaust hangers are a perfect example of a design that is so intuitive, it's hard to imagine how anyone, let alone a high end 'restoration shop' could get it that wrong. And don't say 'well, they're Pontiac guys, not Olds'. Give me a break.
I do agree, however, it's a great car.
I build and work on my own cars. I've never paid a shop for restoration work, but it certainly seems like there are countless examples that prove it doesn't matter where you go or how much you pay, it's never as good as doing it yourself. Those exhaust hangers are a perfect example of a design that is so intuitive, it's hard to imagine how anyone, let alone a high end 'restoration shop' could get it that wrong. And don't say 'well, they're Pontiac guys, not Olds'. Give me a break.
I do agree, however, it's a great car.
I was not a "high end" restoration shop that finshed the car. It was a Pontiac shop that had never done an Olds before that completed assembly.
