I am wondering if someone could help me decode this cowl tag. A friend of mine is looking at purchasing a 1960 Olds Super 88 and asked me about the trim meaning and the last line on the cowl tag... I can't help him B.O.S. and 202? and what the 339 trim means. The car is a very nice clean car but wondering if it is all correct for the asking price.
As far as 339 goes, I found a list of trim codes for 1960 Oldsmobile but 339 isn't in the list. It will simply be the colour of the interior though, just don't know what it is!
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
As far as 339 goes, I found a list of trim codes for 1960 Oldsmobile but 339 isn't in the list. It will simply be the colour of the interior though, just don't know what it is!
I thought so too - But like you said I couldn't find anything myself either.
I think it means that the automatic transmission is a Body Special Option. I assume anything that requires some sort of a change being made to the vehicle from what the base vehicle would have would be considered a BSO.
On later models for example that is why M20 shows up for a 4 speed, because it requires a hole being cut in the floor. Or a U75 power rear antenna shows up on the tag because it requires a hole to be put in the quarter panel. Stuff like that.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Does someone have a document for that vintage? It almost seems to me that prior to about 1963 they don't have option information on them. Seems to me they basically only show when it was built and what dealer it was sent to. I could be wrong but that's how I remember it.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
64 up was basically a build sheet with options. 63 down though has model, engine, interior and exterior colours, transmission, selling dealer, date built, maybe some more stuff. The engine info gives cubic inch and hp, plus the engine number stamped on the block. Unless its a really rare model and really expensive, not likely someone would do a fake trim plate or that a colour change would effect value?
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63 Parisienne sport coupe (The Big GTO), black, maroon interior, 409 4 speed; former owner of a 59 El Camino, 63 Corvette SWC, 62 Chev Bel Air SC. 1963- Pontiac top selling car in Canada
Mahone Bay, NS Still not old enough to need an automatic
