Restored and custom cars are great and all, but there are times when people would like to start their own projects, give a certain car that personal touch that would make it a true member of the family. And it is then when the hunt for unrestored machines begins.
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More to the point, the fewer people in a car’s past, the better, and it rarely gets any better than this 1970 Oldsmobile 442, now listed for sale during the Barrett-Jackson auction in Houston next month. That’s because the car is rare, seemingly well-kept by the only two masters it ever knew (the first one since its birth all the way to 2020) and mostly original.
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And so are the gold convertible top and the interior. The exterior, however, although still wearing the native color, looks so good on account of a repaint that was performed all the way back in mid 1970s, for unspecified reasons.
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The Olds is about to go under the hammer with no reserve, but no estimate as to how much it is expected to fetch has been made.
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