Hello from Lansing, Michigan the Home of Oldsmobile. Retired from G.M. I love cooking, sports, trivia and classic cars. I'm new to the forum but not to Oldsmobiles. I have 9 of them. A 1998 Aurora, 1996 Aurora, a 1958 2dr. hdt., two 1958 4dr. sedans (parts), 3 1958 Fiesta wagons, (one the "Oldscoolbus", is a Tribute to Oldsmobile. It features dual engines, New-matic ride suspension and a host of other factory options. Also a 1964 Cutlass pick up. It is believed to be 1 of 1.

 

Welcome, and pics, please! Curious about what your job was as GM employee?

 

Welcome aboard

Trivia

Who played Boo Radley in "To Kill a Mocking Bird"

No fair google cheating.

 

Dual engines? I've never heard of that. But definately interested in pics of your collection, that Cutlass pickup sounds pretty darn cool.

Welcome to Classic Olds!

--Ryan

 

Sounds like a nice collection. Now you have to post some pictures so we can all see you cars. Pretty Please!

 

Came across a couple pics, and I believe they are Dr. Oldsmobile's cars.

http://www.reolds.org/WDennis.htm
Found more: http://www.droldmobile.com/index.html

--Ryan

 

Hi Ryan:
Those are part of the herd. You can see the Oldscoolbus on my website www.droldmobile.com

Willis

 

James you got me on that one. William Bendix maybe?

 

Hi Kurt:
Didn't you get a brick from Me? I was a supervisor. I ran Paint Mix and Distribution at Lansing Car Assembly.

Willis

 

Sure did! Should have know that was you. Send me an email ( wmachine@shubes.net ), I still need to do some digging for you about Cleveland Hone and Machine.

 

Robert Duvall? I didn't cheat, I am not even sure I am right.

 

Welcome to the forum Dr. Oldsmobile

Thanks You for being a part of Oldsmobile and getting them built

 

Dr. Oldsmobile: I met you in the swap meet area at the Dearborn OCA Nationals (2008), where you had the dual engined 455 frame/engine set up on display. Would love to see pictures of it as completed, on the '57. Yep, you got a lotta' Oldsmobile's. By the way, thanks for building them, too! Aron

 

Hi Aron:
I do remember our Meeting in Dearborn. Hope to have sheet metal work finished by homecoming. Paint and interior will have to come later. You can follow the progress on my website www.droldmobile.com

 

Question ...

Were '70 442s' painted "One Off" colors ..?

Thanks ...

 

Welcome Dr. Oldmobile.

Being a doctor and working for Oldsmobile you know you will be asked a alot of questions.

I got this pain in the side of my Vista Cruiser Doc...

 

Robert Duvall is right (first role), but what's that got to do with welcoming this gentleman from Lansing? (by the way welcome, from Muskegon). I'll be at Homecoming with a couple of other Olds nuts!

 

Back then all colors were painted from bulk systems. It took almost 400 gals. to load a circulation system. If a color averaged less than 13% of the monthly production run, it was dropped from the bulk system to a small satelite system (150gal.) Only special orders were painted as 1 of 1.

 

Thanx to all the welcomes.

 

1) what was the baddest Olds that ever rolled down the line? 2) Is that el Cutlass a car or a truck?....lol.... When a W-30 came down the line would you hear that music from George Throrgood and the Destroyers play over the loudspeaker....."the head nurse spoke up.....said leave this one alone.....she could tell right away.....THAT I WAS BAD TO THE BONE.......BBBBBAAAAAAAADDDDDDDD!!!!.....(I've seen Christine waaaayyyy too may times)....Oldsdroptop

 

You are having Too much fun. The baddest Olds I ever saw came out of the engineering garage. A yellow 67 convert with a rectangular box with no opening in the middle of the hood. Turns out to be an aluminum 350 with weber carbs. It was street driven a lot by the engineers.
El Cutlass is licensed as a truck..

 

My 442 had a dash - color code and was rallye red which also had a color code ..?

What kind if special colors were there ? Did racers get special order colors ?

 

Welcome to CO Doctor. I think I have seen pictures of the "Oldscoolbus" before, would be cool to see one in person some day. Hope you enjoy participating here.

 

Dan it is a project long time coming and I am getting close to the finish. Or maybe it's just the beginning.

 

Hehehe. I know how it is, have one myself.

 

In his first post he mentioned he like Trivia

 

Dang, I gotta pay attention!

 

Speaking of trivia. Did you know why Ransom never backed his automobile out of the garage when he left the Olds mansion?

 

He had a turntable like some houses in Pasadena ...

 

My thought was a drive through garage, with a door on the opposite side.

 

He did have a turntable in his garage. Sadly it was not saved when the building was torn down.

 

In Lansing we has 2 paint systems in one building. It was possible for a color from the big car color palette to be sprayed on an "A" body as a special and vice versa at extra cost. It took additional manpower to set up a special. They were sprayed out of a 30 gal. pressure pot on the same moving conveyor as production, while not stopping the line. Specials were a pain to production and you had better not stop that line or there was HELL to pay. When I was there it cost $4000.00 a minute to stop the line in the paint shop alone. Paint was a bottleneck. It could stop the Body shop from building and the Trim shop from shipping to Final assembly.
Factory race cars were painted factory colors. Any deviation took place outside of production. Remember production was everything.

 

Great to have you join us here at CO!! It will be great to have your invaluable experience and Olds knowledge available to less learned types like me. The history lessons alone are worth the thread searches! Get some pics on line ASAP....Dr. D.

 

Derek I don't want to tie up this thread with my stuff. You can go to my website www.droldmobile.com and see pictures of my stuff. Use the index on the left side of the home page to navigate. There are also more pics in my album on this site. I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to working through the Classic Oldsmobile site so please bear with me.

 

Thanks, but why two codes (- , 73) for rallye red ..?

 

Was there a letter U or L next to either code? U for upper L for lower to identify tutone exterior.

 

I can't tell you why, but the other special paint codes also used either the -- or the number. It seems to me that the first number is lower body color and the second was the upper.

 

My code was - B

https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...html#post39008

It was a rallye red car. So why not 73 B ...

Michigan built car ...

 

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