1947 Oldsmobile Woody

Stunning.
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1947 OLDSMOBILE WOODY - $80000

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1947 Oldsmobile Woody title status : clean

-RUNS AND DRIVES PERFECT!!!
- Beige/wood with Brown interior
- 238 CI straight six engine-
- Hydra-Matic transmission
- One owner until 2003
- Original owner bought new in Scottsdale, Arizona - The wagon has benefited from a recent once over in the amount of $51,000
- Original wood

Asking $80k but I am open to offers
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Beautiful! Several items look not to be original? Can anyone comment on them? :confused:

 

Olds

The only thing that jumps out to me are the cheesy ass marker lights that are on the front and back. 80k and has 2.00 marker lights front and back.:confused:

 

Beautiful car, yet you make a extremely valid point.



For the price also you would expect moldings and doors/fenders to line up also.



Camera angle?...I don't think so IMO, car has a 'bent' look to it on the passenger side.

 

The 238 straight six engine makes this the lowest-end Oldsmobile offered in 1947, the Series 66. Wagons were offered in two Olds lines that year, the 66 and the 68, with the Series 68 carrying a 257 cubic-inch straight eight. Power output of the two engines did not differ by much, with the Six rated at 100 hp and the Eight at 110. Olds did not offer engine options in any line during these years. One engine was offered in each line, either the six or the eight, and that was what you got.

A total of 968 Series 66 station wagons were built for '47 along with about half that many, 492, of the Series 68 wagons. No breakdown is given as to how many had wood siding as I presume it was an option.

Interestingly, the two wagons were the most expensive Oldsmobiles that year, with the Series 66 wagon base price being $2,319, the Series 68 being the most expensive at $2,375, and the third most expensive being what you would have thought would be the most expensive, the Series 98 convertible at $2,188. By contrast, a comparable, non-wagon 66 could have been had for not much more than half of what these wagons cost. The Series 66 four-door sedan, which carried the same engine as the wagon, had a base price of $1,471, just 63% of the wagon's price. You had to really want a wagon back then as the price premium over a comparable non-wagon was significant and much more than it was in later years.

 

Was that Olds's own 8 or did they share the Buick engine? Strange that only 19 cubes and 10 horsepower differ between the two. One wonders why they even bothered with the 8. Could be that the 8 had considerably more torque, though.
Here's a coupe presently bidded at 15 grand. Even looks cherry, from here. Would look nice body-chopped (the rear window touching the fender) with a nose job:

https://auktion.catawiki.de/kavels/12596823-oldsmobile-66er-serie-zweit-rer-1947

 

One wonders why they even bothered with the 8

Back then it was same as now, bragging rights............ Bigger is better!

 

Back in that era, while they might have had similar specs, each GM division made their own engines. This is what gave the divisions their bragging rights. For example, you wanted the new "Rocket V-8," you had to buy an Oldsmobile. That engine was introduced in 1949. Sister division Pontiac soldiered on into the mid-'50s before that division offered its first modern V-8. Even into the '70s, each division had their own 350 and 455 (or close to it). But the Buick 455, Pontiac 455, and Olds 455 were different designs, and few parts interchanged.

 

There are claims that GMC made grab bags from both Olds and Pontiac:

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...rocket-engines-what-is-the-difference.401533/