1967 Cutlass 442 W-30
 

----A bit sad , but it's time to sell my 67 W-30. It's listed on The Hagerty Marketplace Auction website with no reserve. You can see pics in the Oldsmobile area, as well as many more on the auction sight. If a particular pic is needed I'll take it and E-mail it to you. Call my home phone at 810-420 0four3one. As it is listed with no reserve I'll not post a price, if that's OK with the management. Thanks,....Bill S

Beautiful car, speaks for itself! Best of luck. I hope you're filling the void with something equally awesome.

Link to Hagerty's website with pictures and videos of Bill's Cutlass.
https://www.hagerty.com/marketplace/...ctrzWPfvVSe7hi

I forgot how cool this car is! GLWTA.

Beautiful Olds. Good luck!

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W:eek2:W car Bill, your hesitation to let it go is certainly understandable.
Cool it’s a Brainbeau car too, here’s to whoever the lucky next owner ends up being!:headbang:
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~ Pete

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I don’t know why it is, but certain years of certain models seem to each have their own iconic color.

55-57 Chevy - Turquoise.
Early 409 SS - light blue
67 Z TahoeTurquiose
68 Z Corvette Bronze
69 Z Black
70 Z Citrus Green (even though I am not normally a green car fan).
69 Judge Dark green (again....)

All very subjective, I know; but for me; 67 442 has gotta be Maroon.

Good luck Bill. I would have a hard time parting with that car.

Wow Bill, your Olds is uber-cool!! I love it with either wheel/tire combo and it sits just right.

In the late summer of 1967, at the tender age of 17, I was shopping for my first car. I looked hard at a red '66 4 speed 442. Had I not stumbled onto my red Chevelle my life (car wise) may have taken a totally different path.

GLWS!!

----Coming from you, this is truly high praise! Thanks!....Bill S

Looks great, just like everything else you have Bill - I'm sure it will do well.

----Thanks, Jake! Can't seem to generate enough energy to do anything new. Once sold it will give me a bit of room to get around in the cave for once....Bill S

---Just a few more days and not near what I would like ($22,442), but no reserve is what I chose. Top bidder right now must have a sense of humor. I guess we will see how things work out....Bill S

I remember when you bought that car !!at an Oldsmobile show ! Great to finally see it !!!I sold my black 71 w30 also….

Wish I could afford it it has history in Massachusetts! RIP Lloyd woodland !

I remember when you bought that car !!at an Oldsmobile show ! Great to finally see it !!!I sold my black 71 w30 also….pls don’t let it go for nothing it’s beautiful!

----Would be really cool if it made it back to Mass. I wouldn't mind the monetary loss so much. Just sayin!....Bill S

Wow Bill. You have more guts than me going no reserve on such a fine car.

If I wasn't trying to downsize a bit, would put in a bid.

Really fine car.

https://www.hagerty.com/marketplace/...ctrzWPfvVSe7hi

----Lynn,,,Not more guts,,,more stupidity!....Bill S

Is this the same car as in the Drag Picture?

----No,,,This car was sold out of the same dealership as the race car, but was never professionally raced....Bill S

----Auction ended about 50 minutes ago. You could have knocked me over with a feather as my W-30 brought $40,000. I had prepared myself for $30,000 or there abouts, and at the end the bidding went crazy. Even at $40,000 I'm loosing a bit, but 40 was all I ever thought I would get anyway with the lack of paperwork and several important parts not original....Bill S

Congrats Bill,very nice car.

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Somebody got a great car...congrats.

-wilma

Congrats on your sale too, Bill and happy for you that the sell price was a pleasant bonus.

Congrats on the sale. I just bought another car before I saw the ad. If I had the room I would have been all over it.

I don't know why, but from time to time I start to worry about other folks' issues, & I was really experiencing a bit of heartburn on this one. I saw the bidding stalled at around $23k and just felt like it was a crime. Almost sent you a PM to see if you would deliver to MCACN, as i considered bidding, if for no other reason than to get the price up.

Really relieved for you Bill. $42,500 is not at all out of line for such a quality car, paperwork or not. I don't have ANY paperwork for my car, and NCRS can't even tell me who the original dealer was. We have a zone code and dealer code, but no one can tell for certain. Paul (winvoices) believes it is a dealer that starts with S. Beyond that, we just don't know. I refuse to get a reproduction WS or POP or any of the other docs that could be used to misrepresent the car someday.

Your car pretty much speaks for itself. Really glad you did well. We can't expect to get back everything we put in on every car.

Some cars can speak for themselves.

Congratulations Bill,
I was happily surprised when I saw the final result.
That is exactly what you had said you wanted.
It was a magnificent restoration. Turned out to be a great deal for everyone.

Good goin' Bill - a cool car to have had!

Congratulations Bill,

I’m sure this was a bittersweet experience, but I’m thinking you feel relieved of having one less car to be concerned with.

Take care, Chris.

----Thanks, Chris. Although it was my last complete resto I knew it was destined to not be as valuable as a paper worked W-30. Initially it was meant as a way to use all the parts off another 442 which had the body burned to a crisp in my shop fire. A whole bunch of the stuff for that car was no where near the building with the fire and I felt that the W-30 would be a way to use all the remaining beautiful California parts on a car that would actually be worth more than the other cars safely out of the fire parts....Bill S

Congratulations to both buyer and seller.

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Here’s a few more shots of the ‘67 Cutlass Post Drag car sponsored by Brainbeau Olds.
Not wanting to cloud Bill’s sale any, I didn’t post them earlier but now that the car’s gone to the next lucky caretaker, these pics may as well be here for anyone ever searching Brainbeau to find.
You’re absolute yours’ wasn't this car Bill…sure a lot the same incl. B90 trim?:hmmm:
:beers:
~ Pete

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----Thanks, Pete! That's Woody next to the car. I never found any good pics of John Andresen, but he was the builder and tuner. Woody was hell with a Hurst shifter from what I've been led to believe. Just conjecture, but I believe my car was meant to just own both the B/S class but the B/SA class as well. Would love to know if that is true, but I think it's lost in time as my old W-30 was never raced by them, but at one time owned by both of them....Bill S

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Meant to post these ‘66 Brainbeau pics earlier, just found them cleaning out my system.
Note it has no B90 B-Pillar chrome like the ‘67 car has, either of these two guys John A. Bill?
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~ Pete

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----Thanks, Pete! That is for sure Woody, but as I have never seen a pic of John, I just don't know. The 66 car was the most basic body trimmed Cutlass you could order as most but not all 66 W-30's were. I don't have the stat's on that. 67 was a different animal as, I think, all 442's were Cutlass Supremes which would have had the window trim....Bill S