Find this 1971 Oldsmobile Toronado Brougham here on eBay bidding for $4,750 reserve-not-met with auction ending today (Tuesday) at 12:54PM Pacific. From eBay listing: Item specifics Condition: Used Year: 1971 Mileage: 60,847 Body Type: Other Make: Oldsmobile Warranty: Vehicle does NOT have an existing warranty Model: Toronado Vehicle Title: Clear Engine: 455 C.I. V8 Options: […]
Here is a one-owner 19k mile 1973 Mercury Montego MX Brougham bidding for $6,500 here on eBay with auction ending on Friday.
This next car’s name reads like a smörgåsbord of terrible automotive cliches, starting with the defunct Ford spin-off known as Mercury and concluding with Brougham, the horse drawn carriage named after a Scottish Lord…but first we’ve some explaining to do. Find this 1977 Mercury Cougar Villager Brougham Wagon here on eBay bidding for $7,500 reserve-not-met […]
Big city life is horrible. First, you are forced to live in tiny apartments only affordable because of draconian rent control rules that mean your neighbors pay 75 cents a month to live and the slumlord owners won’t fix the hot water heater because he just replaced it in the 70s. If living like a […]
From the seller: “IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE MORE FUN THAN HAVING YOUR FRIENDS IN THE CAR WITH YOU AND SEEING THE FACE OF THE GUY IN THE CORVETTE, CAMARO, & MUSTANG DRIVERS (sic) YOU PASS BY ??” No, I’m pretty sure a 560-horsepower Grandpa mobile is the peak of fun no matter who you are. […]
The nice thing about buying cars from the era generally accepted as the nadir of the American automobile is that the nicest examples cost pennies. Mid 60s Corvettes run $50k in nice condition, but models sold ten years later (which should have the benefit of being more modern, newer…etc) are sold in the $teens in […]
The Ford LTD was part of Ford’s 1968-1978 full size lineup that included a few Mercurys (Marquis, Monterey, Colony Park) and Ford’s Custom, Galaxie and Country Squire. All told, Ford sold almost 8 million of this generation of full sized machine making it Ford’s second best selling platform of all time (just behind the Model […]
Carter was President. Speed limits were down. The only way that you could feel like your car was haulin’ ass was to change the scale on your speedo. Furthermore the under-damped and under-sprung suspension made the cars float at 55mph like you were doing 110mph, but this is what was available in mainstream American dealer […]
James “Jimmy” Hoffa was a labor organizer turned mobster (or was it the other way around?) who disappeared mysteriously in 1975. For the past 38 years police have been digging up yards in search of Hoffa’s remains, but in 2001 Police matched DNA samples from Hoffa’s hair brush with a strand found in the back […]
Nothing gets the DailyTurismo staff excited like lime green on top of wood grain, except Oldsmobiles…or wagons…and anything with a Brougham emblem, making today’s combination rarer than getting hit by lightning while playing miniature golf. Put your putters away and start imagining yourself putting around in this 1979 Oldsmobile Cutlass Cruiser Brougham Woody Wagon with […]