NOT!

I don't think so; the hood is wrong. (Photo by BobbaLew.)

My most recent issue of Hemmings Classic Car Magazine, June 2010, has a so-called “profile” of the restoration of a 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass convertible.
Not a 4-4-2. A more plebeian Oldsmobile. A convertible, but more the sort of car the average person drove back then.
It has the 350 cubic inch V8 engine, supposedly 310 horsepower. Fairly strong. But not the 4-4-2 megamotor.
I immediately wondered if I had seen the car in the flesh at a tractor festival two years ago in a nearby village.
It wasn't a 4-4-2, but it was gorgeous (pictured above).
And it was red, same color as the featured car.
Probably not. The featured car seems to be from Massachusetts.
Massachusetts is a long way from Western NY.
And a tractor festival seems a strange place to show a car — it was the only classic car there.
Just the same, the car at the tractor festival was gorgeous.
Well done.
A trip to Western NY is not out of the question.
The featured car had apparently been driven to shows in PA.
So perhaps it stopped in Western NY on its way back home.
If this is that car, it's the first car featured in Classic Car Magazine I ever saw in the flesh.
But I doubt it.


The featured car.

• A “4-4-2” was Oldsmobile's version of the hot-rodded GM intermediate body, 1964-on, e.g. the Pontiac G-T-O.
• We live in the small rural town of West Bloomfield in Western NY, southeast of Rochester. The nearby village is Ionia (“eye-OWN-ya”), also in the town of West Bloomfield.