The world of automobiles changed a lot from the 1950s through the 1960s. Cars from the ’50s were heavy body-on-frame and overly complicated and things changed each year. They were more like grandfather clocks than the things we buy from the dealer today…but by the 1960s the mass production mentality had taken over and cars […]
The 2nd generation Oldsmobile Cutlass was part of GM’s Legendary mid-sixties A-body lineup that included the Olds 4-4-2, Olds Vista Cruiser, Buick Skylark, Buick Sportwagon, Buick Special, Chevy Chevelle, Chevy El Camino, Pontiac GTO, Pontiac Tempest, and Pontiac LeMans. The A-Body was an intermediate sized car with a full perimeter frame, a four-link coil rear […]
The first generation Oldsmobile F-85 was a unibody compact that didn’t sell particularly well (everybody wanted a Corvair!), but the 2nd generation, introduced in 1964, was upsized to the body-on-frame A-platform (shared with the Chevrolet Chevelle, Buick Special, and Pontiac Tempest). This next example is a 4-door, but the price is great. Find this 1965 Oldsmobile […]
Remember when you could find 60s 2-door muscle sedans offered on craigslist for less than $5k? Yeah, those were the good old days — but WAIT, you can re-live the glory days of cheap muscle by avoiding the over priced “collector” cars and getting a pile of junk like this 1965 Oldsmobile Cutlass F-85 offered […]
The second generation Oldsmobile Cutlass started life as a compact, but sold in greater numbers when it was put on an intermediate chassis starting in 1964. The new car rode on a body-on-frame chassis instead of the old unibody, but its new added mass brought refinement and character. Find this 1965 Oldsmobile F-85 offered for […]
It’s 2015 and we don’t have my flying cars yet (we’ve been promised flying cars and a dystopian future from sci-fi authors for long enough, time for them to deliver, or we sharpen the pitch forks), but you can buy a good 60’s hardtop daily driver for $9K…and that ain’t a bad consolation prize. Sure […]
From May 13, 2013: Recently we had our eyes on a nice sleeper LS1 powered Nova, complete with granny wheels, but after getting a boost from a famous third party website the little Chevy’s price went supernova and it sold for a lofty $19,500. This was a premium price that we at Daily Turismo reserve for […]
The first generation Cutlass was a compact from Oldsmobile that shared its A-body platform with the Pontiac Tempest, Buick Special and Chevy Chevelle. The Cutlass was equipped with a 215 cubic inch all-aluminum V8 that was the eventually morphed into the infamous Buick (Rover) V8. Find this 1962 Oldsmobile F-85 Cutlass for sale in Carencro, […]
The first generation Cutlass was a compact car from Oldsmobile sharing the A-body platform with Buick Special, Pontiac Tempest and Chevy Chevelle. The Cutlass was equipped with a 215 cubic inch aluminum V8 that was the predecessor to the infamous Buick (Rover) V8. Find this 1962 Oldsmobile F-85 Cutlass for sale in Great Falls, MT […]
The Cutlass was the top of the line edition of the Oldsmobile F-85 compact car line and introduced the world to the misery joys of turbocharging and turbochargers with its Turbo Rocket JetFire edition. This 1963 Oldsmobile F-85 Cutlass is offered as a Turbo Rocket JetFire edition with some flames painted on the side, currently […]