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Sorry to put my first post in the wrong place
Hi All, I'm new to this forum, not new to restoration. Looking for a gen 1 car but there's not much around the Massachusetts area. Are there any members here?

here is one


http://providence.craigslist.org/cto/2241085861.html

and welcome to the group!

Thanks!
I looked at that one last weekend. Black on Black with a really moldy interior - $4500. Think I'd rather find a 66 with a better color combo.
But, thanks for the reference!
I'm looking at cars all over the country, the limiting factor being cost of shipping combined with cost of the car.

I do have a friend in Wisconson that has a real nice 66 from Florida for sale here are some pictures (the crusty looking one is a 67 parts car.

http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x268 ... Toronaodos




If you would like to talk to him e-mail me at mike.keith57@gmail.com

Mike

I originally hail from New England and my advice to you is to look elsewhere for these cars. The New England winters were very hard on these cars due to the hybrid frame design; I had several of them back in the early to mid '80s and even then they were New England Rustbuckets - one, in fact, was a rare 1968 w-34 with bucket seats and a console shifter that unfortunately was in terrible shape due to salt.

If you can cast your net wider there are many good values in the west and southwest where there is much less of this issue.

Hi there, Im from western MA. When i decided to get another toro i looked to AZ to get mine. Not too much in this area that are in great shape. Happy hunting!

Hello from New Haven, CT. We'll have to get together some day!

New Hampshire here, in the process of restoring a "66", nice shape, bought it here but it came up from Florida. there arer a couple in the area, I have been watching a local one. Guy won't sell it, still it sits in his driveway rotting away.

xgecko wrote:I originally hail from New England and my advice to you is to look elsewhere for these cars. The New England winters were very hard on these cars due to the hybrid frame design; I had several of them back in the early to mid '80s and even then they were New England Rustbuckets - one, in fact, was a rare 1968 w-34 with bucket seats and a console shifter that unfortunately was in terrible shape due to salt.

If you can cast your net wider there are many good values in the west and southwest where there is much less of this issue.

Was that 68 W-34 blue by any chance? I knew of a guy (use to live in Newmarket,NH) that took a wrecked blue 68 W-34 and used the motor in a 1955 Olds Super 88.
As far as I know there is five 68 W-34s in New England.

I live in Maine, but I also belong to the GMO Chapter(Greater Mass Oldsmobile) was well.