Hello you all,

My name is Barry and i'm 36 years old and i life in Holland.
I bought my self a jetstar 1 6.5 v8 1963 a few months a go.
And it's great .
The car came to holland in 2007 and thats al i know, would like to know more of it's past but how?
And on the internet the info they give is that they where built in 64 and 65 , how come mine is from 63 ????.
And i have a problem my brakebooster is leaking, so i need a new one are they available .
And if they are what's the part number i need.
Because i don't know and don't want to wait 2 weeks and have the wrong booster over here.

Greets Barry

 

Welcome Barry, congrats on your new purchase. I'll let the guys who know your model better than I answer your question.

 

Can you give a picture? Yes only 64 and 65 were the years for the Jetstar I with 64 having the 394 engine and 65 the 425 ci engine. A picture will help.

 

Welcome, try here for parts: http://www.fusickautomotiveproducts....ileCatalog.pdf

 

Your car cannot be a 1963 model year car as the Jetstar 1, as has been noted, was offered only for the 1964 and 1965 model years.

If your car is a '64, it could have been assembled any time between about August 1963 and July 1964 as the model year and the build year do not match up. For as long as anyone can remember, model years began in the early fall of the previous year, so 1964 Oldsmobiles were in dealer showrooms and could have been purchased as early as October 1963.

Perhaps you're looking at the body number plate, sometimes called the cowl tag, which is under the hood on the firewall on the driver's side, and it has, among other letters and numbers, a three-character code which gives the date the car was assembled (more or less) at the particular plant at which it was built. The code will be a two-number/one-letter code, something like 10C or 04A. The two numbers give the month (10 = October, 04 = April, etc.), and the letter gives the week of the month (A = first week, B = second week, etc.). So a code of 10C would mean a car built in the third week of October, and if we're talking about a 1964 model year car, that would mean the third week of October 1963. If it's a '65 model, it would mean the third week of October 1964. And so forth.

If you post a photo of your car, we can tell you in an instant which model year it is.


A 1964 Jetstar I looks like this from the front (all of the full-size Oldsmobile of this year looked pretty much like this):




A '65 Jetstar I will look like this. The differences are easy to see.

 

Hello oldmobile drivers,

It' s a model 64 thats for sure .
But my car papers show me date of first admission 30-06-1963 .
But maybe they mesed that up when they looked at it over here to get it in holland.
And there's a tag by the left door that shows Oldsmobile 874c006078.
I'll have a look for other tags later.
But does anyone know what breakbooster goes in .
Is brakebooster with part number 5471326 the correct one ?.

Greets barry

 

Your car is a 64 and it could have been built in 1963, for the 1964 model year. The engine should be a 394ci with the auto trans Slim Jim unless something has been changed.

 

That's called the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) and is unique to the vehicle. In 1964, and in other years, the VIN did not indicate much more than you could determine by just looking at the car.

It decodes as follows:

8 = 8-cylinder engiine
7 = series (Jetstar I)
4 = model year (1964)
C = assembly plant (Southgate, California)
006078 = production sequence number for all vehicles built at Southgate for the 1964 model year.


One thing that IS interesting about you car's VIN is the sequence number:

006078

That is a very low number. At the Southgate plant, the first sequence number was 001001, so your vehicle is 006078 - 001000 = 005078. In other words, you car was the 5,078th vehicle to be built at that plant. That may seem like a large number, but Oldsmobile built a total of about 550,000 cars in 1964 spread amongst six assembly plants.

I don't know the actual production at each plant that year, but if we just use averages, that's 550,000/6 = about 92,000 cars per plant. With a production number of about 5,000, your car was one of the first 5% of cars to be produced at that plant, so it was a very early model-year build, which is consistent with it having that weird June 1963 date associated with it.

If you're of a mind to, please take a clear photo of the cowl tag and post it. It would be very interesting to decode the numbers on it. I mentioned where it's located in my post above. This one is for a '67 Chevrolet Camaro, but this is what it looks like:

 

Here's a picture from the cowl tag that's on the car.
And thanks for the info that's on de vin tag .
I'm very curious what you can get from the cowl tag.
And does somebody knows the part nr for a new brakebooster for my car.
It looks like this one 5471326 but i would like to know for sure.

thanks Barry

 

Thanks for posting that. There is actually not all that much on it as the "ACC" area is blank. That means that the car had few body shop-installed accessories (roof drip moldings, tinted windows, deluxe seat belts, power antenna, etc.). There would not be any indication on the cowl tag of options like power steering, power brakes, that sort of thing.

10E = 5th week of October 1963 build date. That's not as early as I might have guessed from the VIN, but it's still early in the build year.
34 = Jetstar I
57 = Sports Coupe (two door hardtop, the only body style the Jetstar I was available in)
BC = Southgate, California assembly plant (we knew this from the VIN)
1279 = Fisher Body sequence number at the Southgate plant
TRIM 302 = silver vinyl interior
Paint code J (first one) = lower body color = Fern Mist
Paint code J (second one) = upper body color = Fern Mist
Paint code J (third one) = wheel color (I think) = Fern Mist


Here's a page out of the 1964 Olds Brochure showing a version of your car in red.

 

Here's a page out of the 1964 Olds Sports Cars brochure with more info about your car, at least as it left the factory.

 

Here's a 1964 Olds color paint chip chart. Fern Mist is second from the bottom in the first column. Sort of a silver color, which is what you would expect given the interior color was also silver. That sounds like a great color combination. We'd love to see photos of your car.

 

Contact Fusick, they will help you. fusickauto@aol.com (860) 623-1589.

 

I don't think Fusick will have a new or even a remanufactured brake booster. At least, their current website doesn't show anything in this regard. I don't find an option to download their catalog any more. Do they no longer have it?

Anyway, the last catalog I did download from them dated July 1, 2014 (catalog 23BC) lists a power booster rebuild service. You are required to send in yours (called a "core") as apparently that's the unit that will be rebuilt. The price shown is $199, and I'm assuming that doesn't include shipping it back and forth across the Atlantic. Turn-around time is listed as 3 to 4 weeks, and, again, I'm sure that doesn't include time in transit.

If they still offer this service and you have them do it, it would appear that it would be about 5 to 6 weeks after you drop it in the mail that you would get it back.

 

From Hemmings: www.midwestbooster.com , if they do not have an original style booster, then they may have an aftermarket unit that will work.

 

The olds is running again ordert a brakebooster from rock auto.
3 days later deliverd at my door in holland that's fast service.
So i'm happy camper at the moment , because it's driving again.
Jaunty 75 thanks for all the info nice to see all those things but i can't believe it was green the inside of the dash is blue.
And i can really find no green on the car any where.
Here or some pics of the inside.

greets Barry

 

We're not seeing the pics, and we really want to!

 

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