Smothers Brothers cars?

[rallye bob]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

I think Eddie is correct. The one Buddy bought was not not a Smothers Bros car.

The car that Buddy had (white/blue '71/'72) was Jim's car at one point, but not the SB car....
I have pictures of the 72 U.S. Nats with Jimmy driving the white/blue car...

[Jerry Hatch]

Dick Smothers car is shown briefly about 5 mins into the video.

[FrankChastain]

Would you post them?

Originally Posted by rallye bob

The car that Buddy had (white/blue '71/'72) was Jim's car at one point, but not the SB car....
I have pictures of the 72 U.S. Nats with Jimmy driving the white/blue car...

[FlyingW]

The 69 Smothers Brothers car (red one with yellow stripes - Kings Olds W31 convertible ) was the first year of SB.

Year 2 was a 70 Olds pure white hard top because Dick and Tom had to pull Logos off car bc of problems on TV. This is what ended the program.

1971 - received a brand new car from Dale Smith at Olds. This was a factory backed car. This is what started the fish scale paint job. Dad actually painted this car and used one piece of cardboard at a time to make the paint job - at this point it was still running in Stock
End of 71 Season instead of sending new car, they sent a conversion package to Dad. This turned this car into a Super Stock / O car
for the 72 season

At the end of 72 season, this is when Dad sold this car to Buddy.
He then went on into the Super Modified Division with the 67 Camaro.

We still have the 71 hood for the fish scale car. As well as having the 69 convertible.


Jeremy Waibel

[vistacruiser67]

Originally Posted by FlyingW

The 69 Smothers Brothers car (red one with yellow stripes - Kings Olds W31 convertible ) was the first year of SB.

Year 2 was a 70 Olds pure white hard top because Dick and Tom had to pull Logos off car bc of problems on TV. This is what ended the program.

1971 - received a brand new car from Dale Smith at Olds. This was a factory backed car. This is what started the fish scale paint job. Dad actually painted this car and used one piece of cardboard at a time to make the paint job - at this point it was still running in Stock
End of 71 Season instead of sending new car, they sent a conversion package to Dad. This turned this car into a Super Stock / O car
for the 72 season

At the end of 72 season, this is when Dad sold this car to Buddy.
He then went on into the Super Modified Division with the 67 Camaro.

We still have the 71 hood for the fish scale car. As well as having the 69 convertible.


Jeremy Waibel

Interesting story on the paint. That white 71 is the car later raced by Buddy Ingersoll?
I had to think for a minute and then I figured out the cars you were talking about.

[vistacruiser67]

Originally Posted by FlyingW

The 69 Smothers Brothers car (red one with yellow stripes - Kings Olds W31 convertible ) was the first year of SB.

Year 2 was a 70 Olds pure white hard top because Dick and Tom had to pull Logos off car bc of problems on TV. This is what ended the program.

1971 - received a brand new car from Dale Smith at Olds. This was a factory backed car. This is what started the fish scale paint job. Dad actually painted this car and used one piece of cardboard at a time to make the paint job - at this point it was still running in Stock
End of 71 Season instead of sending new car, they sent a conversion package to Dad. This turned this car into a Super Stock / O car
for the 72 season

At the end of 72 season, this is when Dad sold this car to Buddy.
He then went on into the Super Modified Division with the 67 Camaro.

We still have the 71 hood for the fish scale car. As well as having the 69 convertible.


Jeremy Waibel

[Jim Kaekel]

Awesome photos. Makes me feel like I was born 10 years too late!

[FlyingW]

Thanks so much for putting these pics up online. Some of them we have never even seen!!! WoW!

[vistacruiser67]

Originally Posted by FlyingW

Thanks so much for putting these pics up online. Some of them we have never even seen!!! WoW!

[Hemi Moose]

Originally Posted by FlyingW

Thanks so much for putting these pics up online. Some of them we have never even seen!!! WoW!

How about posting some current photos of the Oldsmobile's as they sit today....