leepear

I was pleased to have my application accepted for the Detroit Autorama in Feb and hope to meet some more of the members from CO. My 1970 has been vacationing in Michigan waiting for the show. It will be shown for the first time in Day Two attire. So those of you that have seen the car will enjoy the new stylish look of the old bucket of bolts. It was time for a facelift since the car has been out a few times. I know you will like what I will be presenting. Stay tuned and let me know if you are attending so I can meet more members of this Forum.

Lee

1970 Gold 442 convt.

stevengerard

I'm going to try, I missed you in my own back yard so I am going to try to go the 5 hours.

oldzzy

I will be there Sat. I look forward to seeing your car and meeting you

TK-65

Im pretty sure Ill be downstairs with my club coupe.

cutlassjoe

I work right up the street from COBO Hall. So I may be there Friday after work. It's the Auto Show this week and next and it is a zoo downtown in the "D".

leepear

I thought more peope would be attending this show. It is supposed to be much larger than the Muscle Car Nationals MCACN. Glad I will get to meet a few new members. There will probably not be too many Oldsmobiles. James' Green 72 w-30 award winner, Jason's car and my bucket of bolts so far that I know of.

Lee

MI68442W30

since I live in MI I will try to make it

TK-65

Yes its larger, and a ton of people attend. So many you really cant see the cars thru all the people. But its not a muscle car show like MCACN is. Not very many stock restored cars will be at Autorama. And hardly any other Oldsmobiles besides the ones you mentioned.

Autorama has a range from million dollar show cars (Riddler Award) to rat rods (basement) and cars that really shouldnt be there at all. My club coupe is a mix of the latter two.

DennisG.

James always has a car in there. Like mentioned there will hardly be any Oldsmobiles as usual. I like the rat rod show. I plan to be there with a few other StreetRocket members. Maybe friday.

64oldsguy

Will be there for an overnight stay. Look forward to meeting you and seeing your car!

Bunser

Lord willin and the creek don't rise..., I should be able to attend.

leepear

Cant influence the Lord or rain but I hope to meet you at the show.

Lee

droptopron

Lee, congrats on not one but being pictured & mentioned in two articles in the current MCR. IDK if anyone has approached you about doing a feature but I'd love to see one. Its a sweet car with a neat back story.
Just curious, did it come with the poverty caps or are they added?

leepear

The car was ordered with the poverty caps and here is a picture one month after the first owner bought it dated 4-70 and look no poverty caps! Rug was always going to put the slotted mags on the car. No features except the nice center piece that JWO magazine did on the car May of 2011. All of the magazines don't have travel budgets and can't come out to do a article.

Lee

Bunser

In the blue collar town that I lived in, the W31's that were bought in 1970, pretty much all [12] came with poverty caps AND trim rings.[ Nobody but nobody ran just poverty caps by themselves.] I installed aluminium slots as soon as my wallet would let me. The popular wheel treatment were Cragar SS's, but I preferred the slots.

eugene vik

am entered for basement in H.A.M.B. display
dont have a Olds done yet so showing a Bueford!!@

not the pics i wanted but some of the mods show
was updated after this
was owned by Larry Cramer when these were taken

golds56

Trying to talk her into going,i know i have a much older car but i read a lot of other posts on here and have not been to detroit show in 7 years so i ma hoping to see some new stuff and mabey get a deal on a set of rims .Probably tow her son and his wife along as he is getting out of the airforce on the ninth and will be moveing to warren with her and her kiddies.Hope you have a great show and mabey see you there saturday or sunday.Glen

leepear

Only a few more weeks. I went to the LA Roadster show yesterday. Wow! If Autorama is anything like that event huge crowd and great cars. In the lowrider building there was a car that was so over the top that the others looked a bit dull. Great cars at the show. Look forward to seeing and meeting some of you. Lee

TK-65

So far Im on the "wait list". So odds are Im not getting in. Still going to go but looks like without a car.

leepear

We would be honored to have the window sticker guy hang out with us.

Lee

leepear

I leave in one week for Detroit. I have been wearing shorts all winter here but don't think I will be needing them. It is cooling off here to get me ready for the weather. Supposed to be 65 here today. I can't wait for the show and to meet some more of the CO members.

My car will have a new look at this show. See you soon.

Lee

oldzzy

As long as the weather isn't crappy i will see you there Lee.

Jaybird

Labour of love leads to Detroit's Autorama

This guy from Windsor, ON is going with his 1969 442 Convertable W-32

http://www.windsorstar.com/Labour+lo...781/story.html

Oldsmobile442ChrisThibert.jpg

I haven't seen the car yet but I've heard about it. He will trailer it, most likely.

TK-65

67 W32 eh? Must be a clone of a 69.

Jaybird

Oops! Ok my bad. What's a little typo among friends?

Fixed!

leepear

i will look for him. I fly out tonight red eye............Lee

leepear

Car is set up and clean. Let the fun begin. I hope I can represent Oldsmobile well. Lee

oldzzy

I ended up having to work this weekend, so it's a no go for me.

TK-65

Got a call last night and made in it the basement at 9pm.

Jaybird

Here's some Autorama pics from the Detroit News. http://apps.detnews.com/apps/multime...y.php?id=13810

19684424speedconvertible

I made it last night.Saw both your Oldsmobiles,VERY nice.

leepear

Thanks, I met Jason today. I have had a blast showing the car. It is back where it was born 41 years ago. Nice big crowd today.

Bunser

Lee, liked the wheels. Will try to get down to Motor City if possible.

1970442w30post

I'm going tomorrow!

golds56

I made it today,Lee has a very nice ride there and it was nice meeting him and looking over all the cars.I will post a few pics tomorrow,or mabey figure out how to photo bucket stuff(im old and really have no clue about it).All said it was a good day,nice steak dinner in lake orion on the way home.Only one thing that bummed me was no oldsmobiles older than 1961,i really needed to look at one and get a few good shots for those final finishing touches (you know the stuff i cant remember taking apart)on the interior trimmings.Glen ps;it was way better than being at work!

golds56

here ya go,the 4th one is a hupmobile very nice and the last one is a 43 ford with a rocket engine.first two are from ross racing.

1970442w30post

Made it! Much bigger show than I expected. Lee your car looked awesome, I appreciated you letting me "over the rope" to look at the details

car_designer

I went on Friday. Really enjoyed the show and took lots of pictures. I will try to get them online tomorrow and post a link.

Lee, as I said when I met you at the show, your car is amazing. I also saw your car downstairs TK-65, but didn't see you around it.

Bunser

I was able to make it to the show on Sunday.

TK-65

I was there from 1-6pm on Saturday. Too busy with other things to be down there every day.