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Welcome, nice car.

 

Welcome! Very nice!

Are all the pictures so small in Sweden?

- Eric

 

Welcome to C.O.!
Very nice looking Delta. Kind of hard to see all the details because the pics are really tiny even when opened. Still, it looks like it's survived really well.

The engine casting number you posted 395558 2 is a standard Olds 350. That block was produced from 68-76.

The things that will tell you more about the car are the VIN tag (drivers side behind front windshield) and the cowl tag (under hood on drivers side on the cowl ledge. If you can post a better size image of those, the information can be decoded so you know more information about the car.

What are your plans for the car?

 

Välkommen. Mycket fin bil! (I hope that makes sense.)

 

Nice, good color.

 

welcome aboard, nice car

 

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It should have manual choke from the factory! Shows us pics of that manifold area. You can resize your pics by using paint hit the open tab and use resize either up or down, usally 2.0kb is max for size for the attachment.

Pat

 

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Manual choke?

Do you have a source for this information?

- Eric

 

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Boy, Eric your beatin me up this morning! Typing with out thinking today, but manual set in my mind, should have gave the description by setting the choke by depressing the gas!

Pat

 

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Sorry - happens to me, too!

- Eric

 

Nice looking car.

You live in Alabama, Sweden? Who knew?



- Eric

 

Super cool looking car. I bet it drives like a dream. I like the full size GM models. Nothing beats their ride and comfort.

 

Welcome. Cool car, but this rust under the vinyl top is bad. I hate to say this but if you plan to keep the car, you'll need to peel back the vinyl top and have new metal welded in at the bottom corners of the back window. This will only get worse if left unattended. Sorry.

 

I see where you got your handle (screen name) from! Can you use that same plate in Sweden? Also looking at that pic of the back window I will agree with everybody that you will have to address that, and you might count on pulling the glass, I had to do that with my 70 Supreme. But I went with leading those areas so any moisture will not raise the issue again!

Grab a pic of the cowl tag when you get the chance, just wondering if it's a Lansing car. I live 20 min. away from that location.

Looks like a nice car!

Pat

 

The cowl tag is located under the hood on the drivers side. Top of the cowl. Like in this picture I got from the web.

 

No, actually I didn't and to be honest I don't really care. It's your choice to keep whatever hours you want. I wasn't implying you should run right out and look either. I was simply showing you the answer to the question you asked
You can check it at your convenience.

 

[QUOTE=bop719;534088]It is a Lansing car, I´ve checked the vin.
We can check a cars vin number as long as you have a plate number.
On the net (swedish dmv site) you can check the status of a car, if it has had it´s yearly check up, some technical info, and they show the vin/chassis number.
I checked the vin number on a different site than this one, I think it was Oldsmobility, they have vin info on the 70 models too.
Here is the vin, at least that way you can see it is a Lansing car, 354370M271380.
Is there more to find out in this cowl tag, it is not in the left A or B pillar.
Maybe someplace under the hood?

It really drives good, and even if I have to fix a few things I´m quite satisfied with it anyway.
I had a 1964 Cadillac de Ville 4 dr ht, but this one goes even smoother over a few known road bumps.
I will take the vinyl of and see if I can find someone here that can do such a job like welding new sheet in there.
Is there someplace to get a complete rear window frame to these cars, or is it hand work all over?Quote

I am afraid that you will have to have someone hand fabricate any pieces that you will need, same scenerio here in the states even with the 68-72 A bodies. Also you will have to redo the vinyl top, the source for the material escapes me but Fusick.com will be your best source for parts.

Pat

 

Custom plates in my state are $25 (about €20) a year.

But I guess most Euro countries don't allow them at all.

- Eric

 

Different states here may claim that they are using the money for one thing or another, but it really doesn't matter - it all goes to the government and they do whatever they want with it.

In most US states, license plates stay with the owner, so you keep them when you get a new car.


They try to weed out plates that could be "offensive," but sometimes they miss one.
Around here, I have seen "BIG DK" and "FKTHST8."

In my state, they don't like custom plates to begin with a number, but if you talk to the lady in the state capitol who runs the office, she will sometimes make an exception.

Also, since people can keep their plate numbers, here in northern New England (I don't know about the rest of the country), you will see one and two digit plates (someone here in town has "L"), because their great-grandfather was issued that number in 1905.
In Delaware, you can keep the plate itself, and I have seen regular (non-antique) cars from there with 100-year-old enameled license plates.

Most states here are set up to give you seven characters, but a few can give you eight.

- Eric