0371richwiner

Hey guys my name is Paul. I live in Anderson Indiana. This car has been in my family for a while now. It was owned by my father when he was in high school, then when my parents got divorced in 1990 it was sold to my grandfather, and now 22 years later it's mine. It's a little rough, somewhere down the line the original motor was swapped to a 260 still paired with the th350. Anyways plans are to do somewhat of a restomod. Plans are 455 with th400. ReplCe the body panels that need it. Eventually track down a 442 hood. 442 grill, and replace the interior with black and paint the car blue. The frame and floor pans are actually in pretty good shape do not much work should need to be done there. Anyways on to pics and progress soon


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Olds_71_442

Nice car. I don't know if he still has it, but a member here who goes by the id of Jensenracing has a ram air hood for sale and he's somewhere in Indiana too. You might be able to drive there and check it out in person.

My car was just like your's except it's green. I did all the changes that you're looking into and this is what mine looks like now.




Hopefully this will give you more incentive to restore your car. They are well worth it.

jensenracing77

i just sold my 71-72 OAI hood last weekend. between me and oldspackrat (also here in indiana) we could set you up with most anything you want. what we don't have others here will have.

welcome to CO, looks like a nice car. it has 72 S grills on it. are you sure it is a 71?

Olds_71_442

It does have the 71 headlight bezels. And my car had those grills and mine is a 71. Doesn't the 72 have the squared pattern in the grill?

I just noticed it has the rocket emblem in the stoneshield instead of the "S" like mine had. Mine has the rocket emblem now, though.

editted to add......I went out to the garage to look at my old grills and they are different than those ones. They have 4 lines, then one that sticks out further, then 4 more etc. There are 19 fins/lines in my grills. There are only 7 or 8 in these ones.

0371richwiner

I'll get you guys the vin to decode but ya from what I've been told for years it's a 71. Thanks for the input so far. Is there any actuall resell for a running 260 or is pretty much a big paperweight?

0371richwiner

Vin number is 336871M148366

Olds_71_442

I wish you lived closer. I wouldn't mind having another one. I'd toss the 260 and put my 455 in it.

Oops....I just realized you were talking about selling the 260, not the car. I haven't seen anyone say anything good about the 260 here, and this is Oldsmobile heaven.

jensenracing77

you are right about it being 71. the number before the M is the year. not much demand for a 260.

0371richwiner

Ya from what I gathered this is the breakdown on the vin:
3- Oldsmobile*
36- cutlass v8
87- 2 door holiday coupe
1- 1971
M- Lansing Michigan*
148366- 148,366th car off the line

I'm suprised that there is no way on the vin to see exterior color or anything. I'm not crazy about the brown on brown. But I havnt seen many brown interiors. This is is for the most part in pretty good shape. I just want it black.

72 w29 all green

You'll find info about colors and more on the cowl tag.

By the way, the headlight bezels on your car are installed incorrectly. If you swap sides, they will look like the ones on your car's "twin" below .

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Olds_71_442

Ha! I knew something looked funny about the bezels. I didn't realize they were upside-down.

I notice that car has the '72 rocket logo in the stoneshield instead of the "S" like the OP's car.