I've been watching a 1967 Oldsmobile on Ebay. It's now priced above what I am willing to pay for a four door car that's not a Cutlass. LOL. And it's actually located close to where I live.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1967-Oldsmob...m=142219956593

 

Funny, I was watching it as a parts car for my 67 Holiday, but it's now higher than what I wanted to pay. Of course, it didn't sell the first time it was listed, so we'll see if this deal actually closes.

 

If the air cleaner in this photo is correct, and it does appear to be so




then I believe this comment from the listing is incorrect

The black air cleaner indicates the low-compression, two-barrel carb version of the engine. That would be the second from the left in the top row on this page from the '67 Olds brochure. This is the 300 hp engine, not the 365 hp.

 

Power antenna, rear defogger, and headrest front seats.

 

looks to be a 45degree V8, so that would be .921 lifters and not much in intake options.
although being a '67 i just might have a 39degree V8 with a forged crank if your lucky.

 

HUH???

All BBOs take the same intake manifolds. The 45 vs 39 is for lifter bank angle. Also all 1965-67 BBOs came with forged cranks.

 

How do we know that it has a rear defogger? Those two switches to the left of the steering column are for the power antenna and the interior courtesy lights. (My '67 Delta has both of those switches, too, along with the power top switch as a third one.) The rear package shelf is such a mess that if there were a blower motor mounted under it with a vent, we would never know it.

I was able to get a freeze-frame close-up of those switches as he was waving the camera around the interior. That red/white line is the youtube time-lapse line, but you can still easily read the switch labels.

 

Sorry, thought that was the defogger switch location.

 

Well, it's at $1225 with 5 hours left. Even if it hit $1500 I think that would be a decent price to pay for a running parts car.

 

Used to be you could pick up a car like this for a few hundred.... yes probably still worth the bid price if ya need a lot of parts. People selling fenders now for many hundreds of dollars and 500 dollar hoods and engines etc. I just paid a grand for a 91 Trofeo parts car. The game is changing or I am getting too old.

As a side note that 425 has smaller lifters and could be a 39 degree lifter bank angle. Canadian cars also got a slightly different appearing air cleaner from what i have seen but I believe one is correct for the 2bbl LC engine.

 

Yeah, but the cost and hassle of getting it from FL to VA adds to that. I really only need the fender trim and some small parts. If it were a coupe, I might be more inclined due to more useful parts for me (though the price would certainly have been higher in that case).

 

In addition to getting the engine wrong, isn't the seller also getting the car's name wrong? It's not a "Holiday" because it's four-door pillared sedan. Holiday always meant hardtop, and this car is not a hardtop.

It is a Town Sedan, which is the bottom one on this page from the '67 brochure. The top car is a Holiday sedan, and it's a hardtop.







So he's got the engine wrong and the car's model name wrong. That's two strikes. One more and he's out.

 

The seller is incorrect or uninformed about the vehicle he's selling? I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you. You NEVER see that on ebay...

If this were a Delmont, it would be the Ted Kennedy memorial edition.

 

I AM shocked. Devastated, actually.

I always wondered why Kennedy was driving such a low-end car. Yes, it was an Oldsmobile, but it was basically the cheapest full-size Olds available that year. Why not a 98, which would have been more in keeping with their financial stature?

 

I see that the bidding on the subject car ended at $1425, with the car shown as "sold." I wonder if the sale will go through or if it'll be listed again shortly.

 

My thoughts exactly. This is the second time the car has been listed.

I'm sure it was to give the APPEARANCE of frugality, especially in puritanical MA. In the 1960s, politicians still cared about what people thought about them...

 

it was not only a low end oldsmobile it was the 330 delmont without deluxe wheel covers.new englanders were known for being cheap

 

who wants to put a 98 in the water,go for the cheapie

 

$1425 is a lot of money for this particular car. Ad in the cost of going to get it and your at $1600.00. Wow. I wonder if the sale will go through. I sometimes see a bidder bidding with a documented history of bidding on the seller's merchandise. Will see if it gets reposted.

 

I'm curious. How do you get the cost of transporting the car to its new home at $175. The buyer could live a good distance away, in which case the cost to transport it by truck could be $1000 or more. On the other hand, the buyer might live two miles from the seller, and he could just drive it home for 20 cents worth of gas.

The buyer will incur costs to transfer the car to his name, register it, etc. but that would be true for any car he bought.

 

Decent price for a running 4 door.

Watched the video a few times.

 

I watched it a couple of times, too, and while it doesn't sound too bad, doesn't the engine have some kind of tick?

 

I have it figured out for any Cutlass I can find within 3 hours of my shop. For this car it would cost me $175.00 to tow it home. At the outer limits of my search circle it runs around $275.00 to bring a car home.

 

So you are talking about getting the car to YOUR shop, not to my shop or anyone else's shop. It would cost a lot more than $175 to get this car to my home.

 

I think he meant to type, "Add in the cost of going to get it and I'm at $1600.00."

- Eric

 

Except he wrote "your" (which should be "you're").

Amazing how important the right words are, isn't it?

 

There is a dumb "Wizard of Id" comic that I recall from when I was a child, and that I like to bring up in these situations, but an image of which I can never seem to find.

Two people are sitting with their backs to one another, sewing.
One injures herself with a needle and says "Ouch! I got a scratch."
The other says, "So, scratch, already."
The first one says, "Language is such a stupid form of communication."

- Eric

 

 

why would he care how much to get it to your shop?

 

OK, numbskull, let's try this again. The way he worded his initial post, he sounded like he was saying that it would cost $175 to get the car home. Period. Not to my house. Not to your house. Not to his house. Not to anyone's house in particular. Just generically.

He said "your (sic) at $1600" without saying who "you're" is referring to. So I assumed it was a generic anybody, and I asked how he came up with that single dollar amount when the cost to get a car anywhere can vary widely depending on "where" is.

Got it now? Or do I have to reduce the explanation to words of one syllable?

 

Sorry about the grammar. I didn't realize I needed to be so careful.
I'll do better in the future. LOL

 

Sorry, but I didn't read it that way. Maybe because I'm well aware of what it costs to ship cars, but I simply read that post as an example of what it had cost someone to transport a car that was about three hours away. Just one data point.

Obviously, your mileage may vary.

 

A. I didn't know he lived three hours away, and he didn't say that he did.

B. He said "you're out $1600", not "I'm out $1600" as MDchanic pointed out.

Forgive me for reading it the way I did.

 

I frequently slip and write "you're" when I meant "one is".


As for the "three hours" part, I ASSUMED that from his statement: Again, taking the whole post in context, I assumed he was talking about $175 to drive three hours each way towing a trailer. That's about right for gas and incidentals.

I really think we're making waaaay too much of this.

 

That's nice. I don't.


OK, I'll say this slowly now. Go back and read the posts, again, in order. He didn't mention the three hour thing in his original post, which was the one I responded to. He mentioned it in a post AFTER I asked about his comment.

 

All I can say is W O W, last sentence is less than positive.

 

And exactly what aspect of his comment to me was positive?

 

you could say that comment was somewhat jaunty-esque