Quick little background on myself;
Born and raised in Colorado, been in Littleton for the past 20 plus years. I have a small contracting/remodeling business and it's been crazy busy.
I've been a member for a about seven years now and have enjoyed seeing pics of all your great looking Oldsmobiles and reading through all the posts, especially about the W cars.
Haven't ever posted anything, been waiting till I started on restoring my 69 W-31 Cutlass, I know, I know, your all saying "here we go again".
Some of you might know of Eric Pope in Loveland CO. I had him do some work on it and went through the car looking over numbers matching and date codes.
'll follow up with pictures soon.
Bought it in 1980 from Empire Oldsmobile in Denver on Colfax - if any of you are familiar with the old Denver area. It was a trade in from the original owner a day before I bought it.
It's an automatic with a bench seat and Crimson paint, (hence the Crimson31) with the Parchment interior and vinyl top. Well in 85' I slid off the highway into a ditch and mangelled him pretty good, and with three kiddos at home he was going to have to wait. Now after getting some of the smaller things fixed we're into the bigger stuff.
So I'll post some before and after pics with the numbers and date code numbers. I know one of the questions will be if I have the original four barrel, no, unfortunately it had a cracked bowl so I put a Holley 750 on it and lost the original.
Thanks for letting me tell you my life's story! Geez must be the coffee.

 

Good to have you on board. I know Eric Pope. Is he still in Ft Collins?

 

Welcome to the site, look forward to some pictures.

 

Welcome. A few knowledgeable people here to help out.

 

Welcome aboard, Dan. I am familiar with Empire Olds - at Colfax and Krameria {taco joint nowadays}. All of Mom's Olds' came from there. My Dad was a regular fixture there, four or five times a year, year after year, when he would take Mom's ride(s) down for maintenance and snow tire swaps, through the '70s and '80s. I remember waiting with him in the shop lounge, eating free donuts .

 

Welcome aboard Dan. Though it has been almost 1/2 a century ago I also once lived in Littleton and worked in Denver.It was kinda a rough city when I was there.Like most we love pictures, doesn't matter if it is a little smashed up or faded.... Lost in the fifties...Tedd

 

Thanks...Good to be on board!
Yes Eric is still there, Lives a little west of Loveland, with his beautiful 69 Hurst Olds and all his other cars.

 

Welcome to the group... Good luck with your project...

 

I own a contracting company as well, got away from remodels and went back to residential new construction. It makes it real hard to make time for the personal projects.Look forward to some pictures!

Thomas

 

Welcome aboard. I'm looking forward to seeing your project and hearing all the nitty gritty details.

 

Thanks!
Yeah, Dad would drive by the used lot frequently and if he saw a "Toro", he would always go in and take a look and talk with Les, his favorite sales guy, then get the straight poop from the main mechanic John making sure it was a good one. He must have bought eight of them.
Question bout your 69 Cutlass, did the Headman Headers work for you? The Hookers I tried to put on my 350 hang really low.

 

Thanks Thomas!
Yeah it would be a good gig, except those pesky customers and employees.
Just need to carve out some "Me Time".

 

Thanks John!
Oh I'm sure the'll be nitty and lots of grittey.
Sweet collection! Those 85's are great lookers, perfect paint color!

 

Thanks Eric!
Your 67's got to be a blast!

 

Welcome!!