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Can anyone point me in a direction to research these cars? Options available etc? This is a great original car that has been sitting in a garage for ~20 years in Peachtree City Georgia. Due to the weather I have not brought the car home but what I know is as follows:
Power windows
power top
am/fm
cruise control
telescopic whell
power front seat
It has an excellent body and frame. Color combo is a pale yellow exterior, white convertible top and black interior. It has lived its life within 20 miles of the dealership it was bought from new. This is the only picture I have at this time. I think it will look awesome next to my 1966 Pontiac Bonneville convertible! BTW, I bought the clean 1977 Olds Toronado as well that was sitting next to this one in the garage!
Here is a picture of the '77 Toronado. I brought this one home, gave it a quick bath and clay bar. Pretty awesome result. This is a one owner car that sat next to the 1969 vert.
Last edited by Kenaparker; January 16th, 2018 at 07:05 PM.
Reason: add photos
Nice cars! I've got a '78 Toro, so I'm partial to them. The 98 looks great.
Here's the '69 dealer specs book page for the '69 98. When you get the car, post a photo of the cowl tag, which will be on the firewall on the driver's side under the hood. It will have codes on it that will give more info about what the car was originally equipped with as well as assembly date.
I think I could be the biggest 69 98 fan. I just love them. Not crazy about the 68 or the 70 but there is something about the 69 98 that does it for me. I have several of them including a couple of convertibles. Any questions, send me an email, I know the cars inside out, up and down and backwards along with what options were offered. Your 77 Toronado is a great year as well. I have 2 77 Toronados. Welcome to the club.
69 = model year
3 = Oldsmobile division
84 = 98 series
67 = convertible body style
LAN = Lansing assembly plant (all 98s were built at Lansing)
446930 = Fisher Body unit number (not decodable as far as anyone has ever determined)
TR 030 = black interior
PNT 40 = saffron (yellow) lower body color
PNT A = white vinyl convertible top
07C = assembly date = third week of July
I presume that assembly date is July 1969 (and not July 1968), which means that your car was one of the last built in the '69 model year. But I'm really not sure because I don't know when model year switchover occurred other than that it was some time over the summer. What's the car's VIN, or at least the last six digits?
1969 FISHER BODY LANSING (format actually started for '68 model year) possibly to simplify things from the format used in '66-'67, had all bodies (EXCEPT TORONADO, guessing they were still built at FISHER BODY in Euclid, OH) numbered consecutively starting with 100001 just like the assigned VIN sequence
BODY 446930 (346,930th BODY at FISHER BODY LANSING)
VIN M 446200 (346,200th assigned VIN at OLDSMOBILE assembly LANSING)
in a perfect world the 730 units difference would be units "LATE", but with the plant building north of 1,500 cars per day at peak production it would hardly be noticeable
January 16th, 2018, 06:59 PM
