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Hey there! I found an old metal tag the other day with Oldsmobile at the top. I’ve searched on the internet for info on what it might have come off of, but keep running into dead ends. Stamped below “Oldsmobile” it says:
Model: 30T
Serial No.: 279
Engine No.: A384
I will be very thankful for any info!
Hey there! I found an old metal tag the other day with Oldsmobile at the top. I’ve searched on the internet for info on what it might have come off of, but keep running into dead ends. Stamped below “Oldsmobile” it says:
Model: 30T
Serial No.: 279
Engine No.: A384
I will be very thankful for any info!
Well, google says the model 30 is a mid size car and was made from 1923-1927 and came with a six cylinder. It had two brother models, the 37 and 43 which had different engines.
Well, google says the model 30 is a mid size car and was made from 1923-1927 and came with a six cylinder.
Setting the Pace has similar info, but it makes no mention of a Model 30T. The Model 30A was introduced in 1923 and had, as you say, a 170 cubic inch L6. Olds incremented the letter each year through 1927, so 1924 saw the Model 30B, 1925 the Model 30C through 1927 with the model 30E. For all of these models and through 1928, the ONLY engine Olds offered was this same L6, but in '27 the displacement was increased to 185 and in '28 to 198.
But starting in 1928 and going through 1938, Olds model names reflected the model year, so the '28 model was the F-28, in '29 there was the F-29 and Viking V-29, and so forth.
"not that good" is generous. It's basically worthless. He pans too quickly, and the image is out of focus, anyway. It would be interesting to see a clear photo of that plate.
In 1924, all Oldsmobiles were Model 30B. There were nine different body styles offered, and one of them was called Touring. But it doesn't seem likely that Olds would have used the first letter of the body style in the body tag in this way as it wouldn't have been unique. There was only style, Touring, that started with a T, but there were three that started with S (Sport Touring, Sport Roadster, and Sedan) and three that started with C (Cab, Coupe, and Coach).
It really would be helpful to see an actual photo of the OP's tag, because we're not 100% sure it is a body tag. It probably is, but who knows. The OP has not been back to this thread since his original post.
My bet would be a 1924 Model 30 Tourer. You could try to contact http://www.erclassics.com They made the youtube video above and could probably tell you for sure.
I'm no expert, but I think that the Oldsmobile logo on that is from the earliest days of the company. That plus a serial number with only three digits suggests something from the first decade of the 1900s when production of most models was very low by later standards and numbered only in the hundreds.
Olds used letters for all of its models from 1902 to 1908, and there was a model T in both 1904 and 1905. It was called Light Tonneau. Production was 852 in 1904 and 248 in 1905. With the serial number on that plaque being 278, that's more than the total production of that model in 1905, but it's not too high for 1904, so maybe it's from a 1904 Oldsmobile? But none of this explains the "30". As I've said, according to Setting the Pace, there is no mention of a model with "30" anywhere in the name until 1923, and then it was 30A.
It seems unlikely that the plaque would be from era of the 1924 Olds in the video. Production of the 1924 Olds model 30B Touring was 11,885. Perhaps Olds started with "1" for the first car's serial number and worked their way up to 11,885 with the last one, but that seem unlikely. By the middle of the 1920s, Olds had been producing tens of thousands of cars per year and probably would have started serial numbers with 10001 or something like that. Three digit serial numbers just wouldn't seem likely by that time in the company's history.
Decided to check out erclassics.com today and found the car that I posted in the video. Here is a good picture of the tag. I am definitely not an expert, but they are advertising it as a Oldsmobile 1924 Model 30 Tourer.
They did build trucks. I rode in one once up the Newport Hill. I believe it was a 28.
It wasn't made by Oldsmobile, at least according to Setting the Pace. Olds did sell about 3000 chassis that year, and it's likely that some of those were fitted with truck bodies, which was not uncommon back then. but the fact of this would probably not be reflected in the model name on the information plate.
I know it's a sidebar conversation, but I think we have satisfied the original question.
It was a truck with an Oldsmobile logo made in 1928. I will ask its owner if I see him this year if it was a custom coach built car, if he knows, like you tell me, and report back.
June 27th, 2018, 06:40 PM
