An OCC from Germany..

Hi everybody,
at first i have to say sorry, cause my english is quite rusty
Hope to find some answers for some of my problems here, cause german forums sometimes don't have

My name is Sebastian and my car is a 92' Olds CustomCruiser.
Its a L03 with ~108k miles, but the odometer is not working properly... (problem #1 )
Its completely stock, except the radio.

And the dual exhaust... That's not stock.


Looks nice! Do you have the awesome export glass headlights, then?

Hello neighbour
Nice looking OCC

Didn't you have any problems registering the car because of the stock american lights?

The Car is since '93 in Germany. I bought it in October '11 - so I hadn't had any problems^^
The head- and taillights are stock. Even the red indicators at the back

The exhaust is from the first german owner I think, I'm the third.

Very nice! I also have a '92 OCC, they're nice wagons! I wonder how many OCC's wound up in Europe. Probably not many. Have you seen any other OCCs in Germany?

Not yet, i've heard of one quite near to me, but I've never seen it.

Great looking OCC! I need to put some elbow grease into polishing my wheels; yours look nice.

Regarding your odometer, do the speedometer & trip-meter function?

Yep, Speedometer works perfect.
Tripmeter.. similar to odometer.. not really.
It usually begins to work at about 55mph and above.
Below its not working, except yesterday at -6°C ^^ then it even worked sometimes at ~35mph. But not constantly.

Pretty car! Welcome to the forum and happy to see Oldsmobiles still out there in the world! Hold the Rocket banner high and stick around a while!

-Mike

Willkommen!

What part of Germany are you in? I spent 9 years there... 4 in Baumholder, 2 in Bremerhaven, and 3 in Bad Kissingen

I was born near Hamburg, but at the moment I live in Wolfsburg (student)
Usually not the city where you can find american cars

It was when I was there in the mid 80's. Been through Checkpoint Alpha in Helmstedt (is it the A2?) more times than I can count because my wife is from Berlin (west, French sector)

Yep A2 is correct
Helmstedt is quite near to Wolfsburg

Welcome aboard! Nice to see another OCC on here.... 92 OCC are the rarest off all production years with less than 4500 built in that year!

I'm on my third Olds, all have been 91s

So,. seba,. any chance you grabbing me a couple of european spec headlights for my car??
they are called t84,s,. can send the money anytime,.
or a couple of european tailights with the amber turn signals,.
thanks

Nick

Welcome to the group Sebastian,thats a good looking OCC you have there.Personally I think the
OCCs are the best looking of all the b bodies and definitely the rarest of all too.
Jim

@phantom: AFAIK there are no german taillights.
The Indicators normally comes instead the backup-lamps with orange-flashing lamps. So you need an external backup-lamp.
The T84s seems to be very rare and expensive out here (~800$)

@all: Thank you for the nice welcome.

Welcome aboard! Great to see the Cruisers are abroad!

Willkommen.

Notfalls kann ich Uebersetzen. Spreche fliessend Deutsch und Englisch, aber mit der Gramattik ist es mitlerweile nicht mehr so doll.

Sven,are you showing off?

Just offering to translate if needed.
(I need a smiley for hugs....)

Not from me!

nice wagon welcome to the forums

Flasheroo wrote:

Sven,are you showing off?

Google translator

Krzdimond wrote:

Flasheroo wrote:

Sven,are you showing off?

Google translator

That would work too. Might not be as accurate with car terms though.

My wife is German, I just ask her