1975-1979 Oldsmobile Omega          page 1

 (R) Note the Buick-style engine "portholes"! How did this come about?  This goes to show you that the sheet metal from a Skylark will fit, and vice versa.

 (R) Olds carried the 1974  "S" option into 1975 

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 (R) Here's a rather nice 1976 SX from Texas.

OMEGA Transformed (July 2003) by Eric Bracken 
"The car in the background of the one picture, is actually the car that started it all. It is a blue 79 Buick (Skylark). An ex- girlfriend and I bought it for her daily driver. It was a V6 and in really good shape. One day it was parked on the street and got hit. Insurance said they wouldn't repair it; junk it, or we could have the car if we forfeited the insurance deductible {four hundred bucks}. I got the car, put a front fender, bumper and corner turn signal on it and drove it till it tangled with a telephone pole. The pole wiped out the passenger side. Still driveable at 170,000 miles, but that is when I saw the green 78 Omega for sale and thought hmmmm, all the parts are the same and the blue Buick became a donor/parts car. 

"The green '78 hatchback was bought with a busted leaf spring, someone didn't want to fix it. It was a V6, PS, PB, with bench seat, original dog dish hubcaps, matching body color painted wheels, black interior. I did a lot of cleaning, a donor car supplied the leaf spring and then I put the Chevrolet Corvette style wheels on it, drove it till it had 93 thousand on the odometer. Then did all the transformation to the car it is today, still green.

The console in the green '78 Omega is actually out of another donor car that was bought for the interior. The car was a '77 trunk car, orange body color, white interior, 305 that was seized, and real bad rust on both rear quarters. BUT...It had bucket seats, center console with the shifter on the floor, this made it to the green car, sport steering wheel made it to the green car with the column too. The buckets are in the basement now. I also saved the front clip and both doors, you never know what you will need in the future. This orange '77 and the blue '79 Buick are all now scrapped..."

One car's not enough, so the story's not over yet:  "Present day......Bought a white '78 Omega with blue interior in it, 305 V8. It had a beautiful grille and taillights. I bought the car for just these parts, 500 bucks. The nice grille and taillights have been put on the green '78 Omega Hot Rod. This white '78 is now getting the paint job to look like an SX Omega. Planning to make the body light blue with the white on the bottom." (and he did a masterful job on the SX clone, as you'll see on the next page...)