70 Olds 442 2 Door Post docs - Page 4

**PeteLeathersac** · #31 03-08-2007, 05:32 PM

Really love the white Post car...nice work!.
I can't help but think of steelies and dog dishers myself though?.

This whole Olds Post car thread is getting to me..
I'm gonna' go check and see if the remains I saw could be my old '70 car also I spotted a 64/65 F85 Post recently I should go check on too..

PostusTheMostus!!!

~ Pete

**PPPJJJFFF** · #32 03-08-2007, 06:39 PM

What is W25?

Patrick

**PeteLeathersac** · #33 03-08-2007, 07:23 PM

W25 is the OAI Hood...automaticly included on W30's but optionally available on others..

~ Pete

STF455 · #34 03-08-2007, 09:01 PM

Thanks for the comments on the white W-30. My dad bought the car new and it was our family car until '72 when it was replaced with a '72 Vista Cruiser (455 powered of course). The W-30 was parked in '74 with a hatched engine and I finally decided in 2000 to do a "quickie" freshening of the car; of course one thing led to another and a frame-off ensued.

PeteL- I almost went with the steelies/dishes but the car came with the argent SS2 wheels, although I didn't use the original wheels anyway (used 15x7 instead of 14x7).

**PeteLeathersac** · #35 03-08-2007, 09:20 PM

Sounds great Sean...looks like a good Member's Ride candidate!.
Is it buckets or bench?.
My '70 Post was a buckets DualGate car...always wished it was a bench 4-Spd..

I had a '69 442 Post car before my '70...also gold and was a Bench M40 column shift car..
The orig trans blew the first day I drove it...replaced the trans w/ one out of a Poncho GP...blew the orig motor a week or so later and stuck a 455 out of a '69 Toronado into it and had great fun for a few years!.
Seems foolish now but after I bought a '70 Chevelle as my driver I turned the '69 Post into a stock car...the remains are still sitting at a buddy's farm..

~ Pete

442w30 · #36 03-09-2007, 12:28 AM

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That Gold convertible with the burnt orange stripes and white roof really looks good.

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Those are red stripes, which were not a recommended color combo with that gold. The original owner wanted the combo because some FL football team is that combo.

StriperSS · #37 03-09-2007, 02:10 AM

My 70 W31 automatic was originally light green with white stripes and a painted white roof. When it was repainted, I went all green with narrower gold side stripes, and no hood stripes.
My 4 spd W31 was a darker green when I got it with black stripes, but I discovered that it was originally Gold with black stripes.
I parted out a 72 W30 that was the teal color with white stripes.
Most of the W cars that I've seen over the years have mostly been white or black stripes, so it's cool to see the other combos surfacing.

John

442w30 · #38 03-09-2007, 02:16 AM

Ooh . . . a two-tone car?

Got a pic?

Gold is the third most popular stripe color. It's not common, but it's not rare either.

StriperSS · #39 03-09-2007, 02:27 AM

No, I don't have a before photo. I've been searching through boxes of old photos to try to find one. I know I had a couple given to me that were taken at the drag strip, but they disappeared years ago. I'm hoping to run into someone that might have one when I hit a couple of the Vancouver cruises this year.
I have a few pics of it after it was repainted. I kept the chrome roof pieces on it.
I'm missing photos of a few cars that I used to own, and I think my ex-wife has probably disposed of them.

John

**SmallHurst** · #40 03-12-2007, 06:48 PM

I am glad to hear that the Thorton repops are good pieces. The ones that I was told about were from the Parts P*****. Inferior China made pieces of #4it!