Brand new Olds Toronado owner
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2019 7:56 am
Bonjour !
My name is François and I'm a happy new owner of a 1966 Toronado. The story begun last december when I decided to have a classic American car... so I started looking for everything online and one day, I saw a Toronado ! What a surprise, never heard of it, never saw one even on a picture So I decided to look more and more until I found The One !
Frost green exterior, green interior, quite in a good shape and only 33.000 original miles. Needs care and time but I have both
So I drove 5 hours down to North Carolina (I'm in Washington DC) and saw the car, had it for a test drive and bought it !
Begun the trip to take it back to DC, I thought I could drive it back but after an hour or so, loose a part of the exhaust, then came a leak in the radiator... so I decided not to push more and rented a trailer to carry the car back. Since then, I'm cleaning and restoring it as much as I can. I like to do everything myself so it takes time. I'm not a professional, but I'm very curious and fast learner
This car as a interesting story, it was bought in 1965 so it's a early model and was sold to a apple orchard in North Carolina. Used as a company car for the manager and was painted and customized to the company color. He drove nearly 28.000 miles until 1980 when it was sold to a collectionner who repainted it in its original color and kept it until 2018.
I have recent pictures about the car and the work I have done to it. My goal here is to put as many information as I can so anyone interested in doing the same could find everything. I hop I'll have enought time for that.
I also have questions and your contribution will be more than helpfull for me
My english is not perfect and it is sometimes difficult for me to find all the technical terms so forgive me if I do misktakes !
Next post soon with pictures !
My name is François and I'm a happy new owner of a 1966 Toronado. The story begun last december when I decided to have a classic American car... so I started looking for everything online and one day, I saw a Toronado ! What a surprise, never heard of it, never saw one even on a picture So I decided to look more and more until I found The One !
Frost green exterior, green interior, quite in a good shape and only 33.000 original miles. Needs care and time but I have both
So I drove 5 hours down to North Carolina (I'm in Washington DC) and saw the car, had it for a test drive and bought it !
Begun the trip to take it back to DC, I thought I could drive it back but after an hour or so, loose a part of the exhaust, then came a leak in the radiator... so I decided not to push more and rented a trailer to carry the car back. Since then, I'm cleaning and restoring it as much as I can. I like to do everything myself so it takes time. I'm not a professional, but I'm very curious and fast learner
This car as a interesting story, it was bought in 1965 so it's a early model and was sold to a apple orchard in North Carolina. Used as a company car for the manager and was painted and customized to the company color. He drove nearly 28.000 miles until 1980 when it was sold to a collectionner who repainted it in its original color and kept it until 2018.
I have recent pictures about the car and the work I have done to it. My goal here is to put as many information as I can so anyone interested in doing the same could find everything. I hop I'll have enought time for that.
I also have questions and your contribution will be more than helpfull for me
My english is not perfect and it is sometimes difficult for me to find all the technical terms so forgive me if I do misktakes !
Next post soon with pictures !