The Oldsmobile Delta 88 (later named the Eighty Eight Royale) was sold from 1986 through 1991 on GM’s “full sized” H-Body platform that was shared with the Buick LeSabre, & Pontiac Bonneville. It might look like a Chevy Celebrity or Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera, but those A-body cars were 105-inch wheelbase mid-sized sedans that were powered […]
The general consensus from the DT commentariat was yesterday’s Oldsmobile Cutlass “dream car” was in fact a “nightmare buffet of raccoons scratching over frozen corn syrup on their way to eat your livers” so I wanted to apologize by posting a better Oldsmobile. This one is…wow…what the heck is going on in the background of […]
Back when I was a kid in the early 70’s, we thought American sedans were land barges, and one would never ever want to own one. With curb weights of around 4,000lbs and lengths of 19ft, they are almost petite compared to the Bro Trucks and Mommy ‘Burbans that clog the roads of today, and […]
Headlights are the eyeballs of automobiles — and in the world of those eyeballs there are a few strange looking examples. For instance, the Morgan Aero8 has a cross eyed look and the Mazda RX-7 has always looked sleepy with pop-ups, but this next car is seriously confused. Find this 1972 Oldsmobile Delta 88 here […]
The Oldsmobile Delta 88 wasn’t always a mid sized malaise era luxury barge powered by smog-choked V8s, there was a time when it was a large luxury barge with enormous gas guzzling smog-belching V8s. It doesn’t’ get much bigger than a mid ’60s GM B-Body and the 6th generation Oldsmobile Delta 88 was 18 feet […]
The Oldsmobile 88 was a full sized car sold by General Motors from 1949 to 1999, a stunning 50 year production history that started in 1949 as a car that a 30 year old would like. The 88 continued to court that same buyer until he was 80 in 1999…and like its customers, faded into […]