abbeylands

Proud owner of 1927 30E Tourer - but needs details as to where I can get hold of manuals, books etc., to maintain in mint condition. Can anyone direct me to a good site?

Car currently being registered and road tested for MOT. Should be with me in the next 10 days. Clean and warm space in the garage already prepared.

Allan R

Congratulations on your new ride. Forgive my ignorance, but what is a 30E Tourer? Can you post some pictures for us? 1927 sounds like a nice bit of history to have a look at.

Jamesbo

Welcome aboard

X 2 How about some pics

abbeylands

One pic available at present - link below:
https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...pictureid=1435
Will post more when car arrives - hopefully next week.

Dan Wirth

Your car looks like a museum piece. Beautiful.

You may want to speak to a car museum curator to locate the documentation you need, for example, The San Diego Automobile Museum or even better yet, the Lansing Oldsmobile Museum.

Kantner's Auto Products (800-526-1096) may also have a lead...as they have much documentation, but I don't know how far back they go with it.

70 cutlass s

Looks like a pretty cool car.

abbeylands

.. for your comments and suggestions. Will soon find out if the original had chrome fenders ... and where to get them. Will keep you up to speed on the restoration process.
Andrew

Bluevista

Welcome

Wow! you ever crank it to start it.

I was digging at a job once and found an old car starting crank.
I furiously started digging deeper but unfortunately I didn't find a car under the dirt where the crank was.

I would try the Oldsmobile Club of America and the National Antique Oldsmobile Club for info.
They have a lot of good resources and year advisors that can point you in the right direction, other guys with the same type and around the same year cars are the best resources.

http://www.oldsclub.org/

http://www.antiqueolds.org/index.html

Faxon has literature dating back to 1902 and may have something.

http://www.faxonautoliterature.com/home_one.cfm

abbeylands

... I just get Mrs P to do the hard work ... I have to sit behind the wheel and make sure that the choke is out, the clutch is in ... to mechanical for Mrs P so she draws the short straw!! Just joking - starts on the button - down on the floor. Turn the key, open the choke, press the button, away she roars.

Bluevista

I like the way you think.

Allan R

That car is drop dead gorgeous!! Do you know if that's the original color? It really sets off the car nicely. Love to see the inside shots and the engine. That's a "Pridemobile" . Show it off every chance you can. Didn't the car have some docs or manuals from whoever you bought it from?

Went searching on the web, and most of the 1927 30E models I found were Landau sedans. Majority of the pics were sepiatone so couldn't tell the color. Did find this one.



What does 30E mean? Is it the designation for Touring? It seems you could get several models of it. Personally I like the cabriole style of yours. Always nicer to tour with the roof down...

Want to buy one new? Let's go back to 1927 and take a look...


The variation on Landau got my attention too. For some reason, I just love the look of the S swirl on the C pillar and the touring lunch box on the bumper. Olds's version of the early "continental" kit? These cars just ooooze style! I'm thinking that that's a wood inlay by the door handles. Can't begin to imagine the opulence that awaits inside.

abbeylands

I think the boot rack was an optional extra. However there is plenty of room on the back for 2/3 passengers and of course the picnic hamper. That's the benefit of bench seats - front and rear. I shall post more photo's very shortly - inside, outside and under the bonnet.

Bluevista

My Vista Cruiser has bench seats front and rear too.

Boot racks???
I remember early 70's greaser girls/racks with pointy black velvet stilleto heeled boots???

I had a Pic-a-nic basket, as some of us call them over here, but a bear stoled it when I was at Jellystone Park.

He was smarter than the av-erage bear.

abbeylands

Now there is the problem with same language divided by a single ocean!! What we call boots you call trunks, our bonnets are your hoods, at least bench seats are common though!!

Allan R

Boots (not made for walkin) is the extension on the back end for the old skool continental kit with the Pic a nic basket full of goodies that is being protected by....Ranger Smith of course.....Hey Cindy and my little buddy Boo boo, I smell lunch waitin on Jamesbo's table. Naturaaaalllly, he's invited us all over for some tasty treats like crayfish......

Must be related to the Grand Pooh-bah!

OLD SKL 69

Very nice car. My 6 year old little girl likes your car too and wants to know if we can go for a ride in her!

Allan R

HEY!! I didn't know that was an option. ME TOO! I get accused of being that old all the time anyway.

rocketraider

In addition to the OCA and National Antique Olds Club, the AACA www.aaca.org maintains an extensive library and literature collection. Unfortunately access is limited to AACA members, but AACA membership would be very worthwhile for your 1927. Their discussion forums can be very useful for a car such as yours and membership is not required for those, but we'd love to have ya!

Gene Crowdis in Texas USA has a 1927. He's been on here before, but I cannot remember his username.

bulldog

What a wonderful car you have. I hope your ready for alot of attention because your going to be getting it. Although I have never had the pleasure of driving a 1927 Oldsmobile I do have a 1926 Chevrolet pickup and believe me when I say it draws a huge crowd no matter where I go.

abbeylands

can't wait to take her out - already you'll note it's a she - think I'll christen her Benita after my mother .. after all she will probably be just as cantankerous!! Mrs P already has her Mary Poppins outfit - me - I'll just dress like Dick van Dyke!

citcapp

Now that is one fine car. Can't wait to see more pictures.

abbeylands

... added. link here: https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...hp?albumid=255

Will take some with the roof down when the weather is better and post them as well. The car looks great when ready for summer running - hood down, wet weather gear stowed away. Was originally in South Africa and left there in March 2008 - or thereabouts.
Andrew

Col Wickham

Ignore 'em. Your Olds is right hand drive so Bonnets & Boots it is.
Mines LHD in a RHD land so I've had to learn to call them hoods and trunks which of course to you and I means local louts and bathers.
The car is jolly nice by the way. Looking forward to more photos.
Toodle pip!

wolfman98

Very nice car. Looks like someone has put a lot of time and money into it already , it looks sharp. not sure about the chrome fenders for 1927 , you would have to research if they were available on that car.

Bluevista

"Bonnets" are what girls wear in the Easter parade and "boots" are what you wear on your feet, a *****-cat wore them in a kid's book.

Is a "fender" the sheet metal around and/or above the wheels or the bumper in this case???
I know an old fireplace fender looks more like a car bumper than a car fender as we know it in the USA.

Jamesbo

Obviously, spoken like someone who couldn't find the "Loo" or the "Lift"

cutlassgal

Aron Nance

Gene Crowdis, Treasurer of OCA (and secretary of the NTOC), has a '27 four door, restored. Email address is: oldsman68@hotmail.com. I'm sure he would love to talk w/you about that beautiful car you own. Congratulations!

Bluevista

I found them but was confused I think?

I wondered why those people were so upset after I used the bathroom and there was toilet paper and a chair in the elevator??

cutlassgal

Oh My God!!!

abbeylands

.... fenders and hoods. Bonnets are the front of the car, boots are the back, fenders are a make of guitar that Eric Clapton plays and hoods are the bad boys on the block. Hope this clears everything up!!

Now let's hope that everything else is common, but I doubt it. I'm going to take a job as a translator - bound to make a fortune!

jaunty75

Let me add my belated welcome.

I was looking your car up in "Setting the Pace," and according to that reference, there were actually two 1927 Oldsmobile models that used "touring" in the name (not "tourer").

The "Model 30E Touring" had a base price of $875, a wheelbase of 110.82 inches, weight of 2,300 lbs, and came with a 185 cubic-inch, L-head Six with a 2.88 x 4.75 bore and stroke that developed 40 hp. A total of 3,576 of these were built.

The "Model 30E Deluxe Touring" had a base price of $980, weighed 2,505 lbs, and only 212 were produced. All other specs were the same, including the engine, which was the only engine available in any of the 12 body styles offered.

Olds produced at total of 86,754 cars for the U.S and Canada that year. Olds also produced for export 3,713 left-hand drive models and 5,059 right-hand drive models. What body styles these export models were is not stated.

cutlassgal

bonnets and boots .....
.... fenders and hoods. Bonnets are the front of the car, boots are the back, fenders are a make of guitar that Eric Clapton plays and hoods are the bad boys on the block. Hope this clears everything up!!



Didn't take him long to become one of us, did it!!! He's fittin right in! LOL

abbeylands

... thanks for the info on 30E. Very helpful and very grateful. Will check the specs and see how everything stacks up.
Andrew

Bluevista

Hands across the water.

I'm still confused?
So you want to know if chrome guitars were original for your car Abbeylands???

cutlassgal

Oh for Gods sake!!! You're gonna confuzzle the heck out of him!!! Down Redgoat, Down!!

abbeylands

... were Gibsons not Fenders. Fenders came in body colours - Les Paul played Gibson whilst sitting on a fender. Eric Clapton played Fender whilst drinking a Gibson ... next question - what is a Gibson?

abbeylands

..... A Gibson .....
Hold the olive, Please!

2 oz. Gin or Vodka
2 drops Dry Vermouth
Garnish with Pearl Onion

Combine all ingredients in cocktail shaker with ice.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass

jaunty75

This is the drink that Cary Grant ordered while sitting with Eva Marie Saint in the dining car in the movie "North by Northwest."

abbeylands

Now that I didn't know - did he drive a 1927 Oldsmobile as well?