BlueCalais79

Does anyone have $825,000 (or best offer) to spare? Or Jay Leno's phone number perhaps? The 1969 H/O Prototype just went on sale on E-Bay. This car was just featured in Hemmings Muscle Machines a few months back.

I won't be bidding, I still think the 79's are priceless

rr69ho

Sooooo, what's a prototype 69 H/O conv. worth?

BlueCalais79

Priceless. Only 3 were made, 2 exist, I saw one of them at the Olds Nationals in Colorado 2001, haven't seen one since. Glad I took a photo of it, I will probably never see one again. One might have been at the Cincinnati Olds Nationals in 2003 but I can't remember.

LI Olds

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Oldsmobile-O...US_Cars_Trucks

Hairy Olds

Besides the car which the originality has been destroyed the only thing worth the money is the story. And the story is not worth that much over a run of the mill 69 H/O.
The seller would need the original parts that make the car special to make this car worth that kind of money.

hurst68olds

I agree, the restoration should've included details on the car that made it different from a production unit.

oldsmobiledave

How is this car in its' current state worth 10X a regular production HO in the same condition?


Answer....It's not.

pogo69

the problem with the price is the engine/trans do not match if they did then the price is inline with other ultra rare prototype cars

1969w3155

If I remember from the article, it had a very unique rear spoiler, and was originally equipped with a 517 c.i. motor which is gone.

junior supercar

this is the hardtop prototype, not sure where convertible came from

allyolds68

I know where

Vader

wow.. what is "proto 5" from ?? Can you share any details ?

GoodOldsGuyDougie

I agree with the rest. The cars been modified so much. Now if it looked like it did and had all the original parts that would be different.

rr69ho

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Octania

"Used
Gas gauge does not work”
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Yeah, too much hassle to fix that, for a lousy $825 grand.
oy vey.

Does not have the 405233 intake. [yeah, proto...] [still, 825k $$$]
Why would you NOT reproduce the elephant tusk spoiler. The one it bears is only "sort of unique" :-)

How nice that it still exists, though!

rr69ho

Chris, that car was built in October of 68. Those intakes weren't around then.