1971 Lime Green 442 convertible fully restored

**stritestoration** · #1 03-05-2015, 05:42 PM

Decisions like parting with a car you put your heart and soul into don't come easy. This is a car I have had since 2008 and it was a car that was only sold for the second time outside the original family. It was a nashville tn born car from hippodrome olds. The original owner is still alive and is now 84 years old.In the 80's he sold it to a family member and it moved to IL where it was painted once in the wrong shade of green. It was then sold to the original owners son and it went to FL. I visited him and the dad in tn before and after the restoration. I have pictures of him when I took the car down to show him as there was a goodguys event I attended with the car. The car has alot of paperwork: window sticker, broadcast sheets, dealer invoices, shipping orders, gas-oil records from new etc. I added the hood with a beautiful original that had been taken off of a car in 1979. It had original paint and I carefully left all of the original white fiberglass parts underneath white that were there when they bonded the top to the bottom and also duplicated the factory markings.This is the only body panel ever added to the car, The remainder of car is as solid as they com. It was stripped to bare metal and it was then that the brazed holes for the hippodrome emblem were found on the trunk lid. i located an original emblem and had it restored to better than new condition. I left all the lime green paint on the inside of the car as it was perfect and I have all those pictures as well. I can't stress how clean this car was. It has the original block, trans and rearend, The prior owner to me made some internal mods and spent a TON on it. Alot of mondello reciepts. I have the original G heads and the intake along with a 71 code carb that will go with the car. Currently It has aluminum intake and heads and i made the decision to leave it in this configuration and disguise it due to the way it runs. It definately is not your fathers oldsmobile.since completion it has been in and out of a trailer and has maybe 10 miles on it. Part of why I'm considering selling is that I don't drive it. I decided to do a restoration anyone could be proud of.I spent a year on it and nearly 800 hours of time went into it even being a car that didn't require metal work. I take pride in detail and have been around enough olds' to have a fairly good grasp of them. every nut-bolt has either been preserved or restored with the correct finishes. I even went as far as to replate the marker light and tailight housings. I carefully reproduced all of the rear end markings and paint that was found. I have the before photos to prove what was uncovered. All new legendary interior, and top. I was able to re-use the carpet as there is nothing better fitting than original if you can keep it. A rally pack in the dash was added prior to my ownership. The a/c was converted and was working great prior to resto, now it is uncharged as the car is not used other than shows. The 200+ photos depict the work done. I also would consider selling the matching go kart. Its a replica body of the ones used by the shriners years ago. I bought a body only and mated it to a chassis. The car has been showed and won a 1st place at the 2013 olds nationals scoring 989. It took a concours gold at MCACN in 2013 scoring 992. It has recieved a AACA junior first prize in august of 2014 and was awarded recently (3 weeks ago) the AACA 2014 REO Olds award for Best Oldsmobile as selected by the national judges. I flew to philadelphia to accept the award at their annual meeting. Car is in heated storage at this time and if there is interest I can be reached at 414-688-0604 (jason) $81,000