I can just picture a white-suited southern attorney driving this 1979 Oldsmobile Omega, and coincidentally enough that’s where the seller got it from. They have it listed on eBay with a single bid of $4,500 so far but the reserve isn’t met. It’s located in Lakeland, Florida.
Depending on how a person counts ownership, this is either a two or three-owner Omega. The seller is a dealer and they say that “this lifetime two owner car from an Alabama country lawyer named Perry. He bought it from the lifetime original owner and traded in on one of our cars.”
This last year second-generation Omega was “Garage kept, pampered and serviced, this car could not be nicer. This car has been refreshed, detailed and ready to drive or show.” It looks great and they say that it’s a “Rust and accident free car.” That’s good to know, I noticed that the wheel arches have sort of a body-filler-look to them, but rust-free is rust-free so it can’t be that? They say that it has a “Very nice, correct repaint in factory White Painted Blue dual pinstripe” but it seems like they have painted over everything, even the window moldings. I don’t know if I’ve seen that before. I would want to see this one in person to make sure that all is well.
The interior does look great in a nice, cool blue for those sweltering southern days. Everything works including the clock, and yes, it has “Ice cold factory air conditioning”.
This is Oldsmobile’s 260 cubic-inch V8 with 110 hp. It sure looks clean in there but there isn’t any info given on how it runs. I’m assuming that it works as good as it looks. Ben Matlock, the old tv show about a southern lawyer played by Andy Griffith, would look right at home in this white Omega sedan. What are your thoughts on this Omega?
If you’re into 4 door Omegas, this is probably the best one you’ll ever see.
Wow! And who isn’t? What a babe magnet!
Escentually a rebadged chevy Nova but a $4500.00 is suppose you can’t go to wrong. I don’t know about south of the boarder but up here in Canada these were desirable as donor cars for building custom restomods and hot rods. The front sub frame holds everything you need to modernize a vintage car. Trans mounts, engine mounts, steering box, front suspension, brake and rad support all in one package. It was common practice to cut off an old cars frame at the fire wall and weld in the subframe out of one of these. In fact many old cameros fell to the same fate. The fact is if this was a rust bucket that’s exactly what I’d do with it. After mounting and welding you had tons of options several differant engines and transmission combinations would just bolt in. These sub frames with the steering and suspension still together were like gold to hot Rodders for years. Now they’re like unobtainium. It’s a technic that has passed its time.
Please, you’re making Canadians look bad.
Essentially – not Escentually
border – not boarder
Camaro – not Camero
technique – not technic
Spelling aside, he’s knowledgeable.
Hey Brian R. Maybe you and Crash should join up and become the spelling police! I refer you to my comment given to crash located on the orangey brown custom dodge van. It basically says that if you want to be my critic then you should be everyone’s critic. How am I doing so far? But be careful he who lives in a glass house should NOT throw stones. The fact is I’m not a professional writer or hot shot executive. I’m a llicenced mechanic and a llicenced welder fabricator and I’m good at both, infact if you were to ask anyone how knows me they’d tell you that I can build anything. Are you still checking? how’d I do on this second part? I’m not here to impress either one of you frankly a don’t give a $h[£ what you to a££ holes think. I’m here to look at and talk about cars. So I kindly ask you two to get off your high horses and move along. Grow up for crying out loud. So how’s my finish you knit pickers find any mistakes so far?
PS If I wanted to pic at spelling and grammar mistakes I’d busy on here every day. As far as embarrassing Canadians I think Brian, you should look in the mirror maybe you’ll see how small you are.
I’m sorry Crash I forgot to put a capital at the start of your name. Please for give me.
I want to thank you for your compliment glen.
I believe that the 403 Oldsmobile has the same external dimensions as the 260. Easy bolt in for tons more torque.
I believe an Olds 455 does too!!!
The 455 is wider
IMO these were the last of the good ones before they switched over to the dreaded X frame FWD the following year. The Omega, Buick Skylark, and Pontiac Phoenix all shared the 3.8 v6 as the base engine. The Nova soldiered on with the straight six until the end when it was replaced by the Citation.
Labour costs money. Why tape off the door mouldings when you can just paint over them!
Earl Shives special. A weekend or two with some steel wool and it will be good as um..new!
Scheib
stunning condition, id buy it in an instant if I were not living down under with 3 kids, and im a Dodge fan first and foremost. Hot the engine up a bit, dual exhaust, wide tyres, Wow
Tires
A lawyer with Southern Poverty Law?
Alabama country?
Nice car, but it doesn’t look like an Olds engine. The filler tube is missing, and the valve covers look like Chevy to me. Which means it could be a 305, meaning a little more power.
Good catch. I saw the blue paint and assumed Olds but a closer look reveals SBC rocker cover design. Makes sense because this is right around the time that offended Olds and Buick buyers discovered that they got Chevy engines and sued GM.
It is a 305 Corporate V8, hence the Corporate Blue paint. Check the VIN. It shows a letter G as the engine code, which translates to a 305 CID.
Please post a link to the VIN decoder you are referencing.
The lawyer story is really far fetched.
Up here in Chicago a lawyer wouldn’t be caught dead driving a Omega unless he was driving while stuffed into the trunk.
Would you really want to do business with a lawyer who’s daily driver was almost 40 years old?
To answer your question, yes.
I would bet my left nut the gutless DUD motor is a 267 CI Chevy and Yes I said DUD.
VIN says it is a 5.0 (305) 2 bbl.
Lovely looking Oldsmobile Omega. I consider it the best looking car of the 70s. I’ve always liked it over the Chevy Nova or the Pontiac. The only thing I would change is the gauge cluster. Instead of the stupid warning lights so common on GM cars, I’d change it to proper gauges for temperature and other important gauges.
Rodent,
Where did you see the VIN number for this, I am calling B.S.
Jeff…
yes I would
The VIN number in the eBay ad is fictitious and or not anywhere near correct for the Omega.
3B69G9W1013262
don’t B so quick on da draw dair young fella.
We comment on the vehicles’n (toys – whatever these nice fellas post up here) not one’n nother. That’s a lill close.
I musta had 1 a lill older. It hada a hatchback’n 350 motor. (lotta power for that sz vehicle).
Ok I stand corrected it’s a DUD 305
That wheel arches are crimped, not rusted. Manufacturing process for more strength, I would suppose.
My parent’s Mercury had the same thing from new.
Nice car.
This seller is known for low-mileage classics that unfortunately have over-inflated reserves. At $4500, it’s already at its peak bidding, maybe will go a little higher but I’m sure the reserve is double, knowing how the seller prices his cars
Thank you DAved, if that’s the case then no one do business with the Seller. The upside is if this car is as represented change the oil and drive it. And yes, it’s a
Chevy, Pontiac, and so on. None the worse for it. I just don’t like white cars. They remind me of refrigerators going down the street………
Nice car, from what is presented. But, no underside pics. Makes me wonder… You know…”Show ’em what we want to, not what they want to see, Homer.”
Its nice but I can see alot of things that need to be redone the seats look dry rotten and the read dash is rotting, the steering wheel is old and discolored and it is a no option car. Really this car isnt worth restoring at all. In my opinion its worth what someone is willing to pay for it but as a classic its worth no more than 2k.
No option car? I see a V8 with A/C, am/fm radio, tilt wheel, and cruise control, all of those may be standard now, but in1979 this was a high optioned car. If it has been in central FL all its life rust shouldn’t be a problem. I see a nice $3500 driver maybe, but no more.
Nice little Olds, well optioned, anything around $5k is worth it, perfect local weekend show and meet car…
Ben Matlock drove Ford LTD’s not an Oldsmobile lol.. decent place looking car!
Perry Mason, is what I thought of! I think that he was older than Matlock! I am getting very old!
You did very well Canadainmarkseh. I think you spell better when your angry. I’m not a professional writer or a hot shot executive either. I am a certified welder as well. All you have to do is use spell check. It’s not infallible, but it works pretty well. It even knows how to spell Camaro, and now you do too! I’m sure you’re an outstanding fabricator (not being sarcastic on that part)
You boys be nice! This is a very enjoyable site! Don’t pick or troll each other save that for Facebook! LOL, just sayin
Those are not door moldings painted over, those are the gutters which may or may not have had chrome trim applied. The trim may have suffered some bruising and the painter took them off (?) The glare in the photos makes the actual door surrounds look white, but they are polished aluminum. Nice car, it’s at top money right now. I had the Nova version of this car and loved it except for the boring interior appointments.