Vintage racing (and automobile racing in general) is typically reserved for those folks with buckets of spare cash. A playground for the ‘suits’ in the world to do parade laps around tracks in their vintage cars with carefully maintained patina. Today’s feature vintage racer is streching the bounds of what one may call ‘vintage,’ but […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight was a full sized flagship model from GM and by 1976 it was celebrating its 9th generation of land yachts. The A-body beasts weren’t just big, they were enormous and just about the heaviest Oldsmobiles ever built. This 1976 Olds 98 Custom Cruiser Wagon is in remarkable condition and offered for sale […]
Based on the GM A-body, the first generation Olds F-85 Cutlass was a compact unibody sedan available as 2-door, 4-door and convertible. Starting in 1964 the Cutlass used a body-on-frame intermediate platform – but the earlier 1961-63 unibody cars were cooler and available with a turbocharged “Jetfire” V8. This 1963 Oldsmobile F-85 Cutlass has had […]
The Oldsmobile Toronado was originally conceived as a front wheel drive sedan back in 1963 to compete with Ford since they already had a patent on front wheel drive designs – not from today’s hyper focus on cost that leads to driving the wrong wheels. This 1977 Oldsmobile Toronado Brougham is for sale in Lakeland, […]