1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass S, W-31
 

1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass S, W-31, 4 speed.

Here is an example of a car, where’in the originality of the car can be used to authenticate the car beyond any reasonable doubt. (I’ll share the details).

So many of the cars for sale / recently sold do not have the provenance to establish authenticity . I am aware of many collectors who acquired W-31s for their collections only to later discover they had purchased faked up cars.

The Key external bolt / paint on components / stripes can be added to just about any non a/c, non power disk brake Cutlass / F85 and you have a car which looks just like a W-31.

Just like many other muscle cars, 4 speeds were not as likely as the automatics to have retained their original engines and not many examples exist today with both documentation and original engines.

1970 W-31 Production numbers:

1,029 Cutlass S Holiday coupes like this one.

116 Cutlass Sport Coupes.

207 F85 Sport Coupes

1,352 W-31 in total produced for the 1970 Model year in both 4 speed and automatic are the generally accepted numbers.

The 350ci engine was rated at 325hp and 360tq and was quite a performer.

1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass S, W-31, 4 speed.

Oh Ryan............

Great car!!

I’ve been following this car for a little bit, so cool that it’s a 4 speed!!

Ryan W31

would be nice to see it redone,not just flipped all over the place.
saw it many years ago,asking price was out of touch at that time.

Yes it would be but this is an ambitious project. You really need to want to have a W-31 in order to take it on .

"flipped all over the place" That is part of what I do to earn a living. However, this is not a For Sale thread. I think these W-Machines are especially Kool and not many people know a lot about them. The vast majority either have no docs or are complete Fugazi's.

I'm an Olds guy and I never heard of a W-31 until about 15 years ago or so. The closest thing I knew about was the Rally 350 Olds as I built a model of one in 1970.

So a good point of discussion regarding the small block Oldsmobile Cars.

The Rallye 350,introduced for the 1970 model year only was a marketing package geared at the Young / budget buyer and its main target was the base Roadrunner which was a 383ci Muscle Car.

All Rallye’s were Sebring Yellow similar color to Daytona Yellow and had the stripe package. You could get them in auto and 4 speed and were available in the base F85 body style as well as the Cutlass S. 3,547 is the accepted total production of all variations and none were convertibles.