The Oldsmobile Toronado is one of those 90s era Olds oddities that makes you stop and remember GM used to build big, comfy coupes for people who wanted luxury with comfort. In the 1986 model year the Toronado was downsized and front-wheel-driverized with the rest of GM’s E-body, which at that point was essentially the […]
You want wild? The El Toro delivers. What started life as a simple Oldsmobile Toronado—already a weird and wonderful front-wheel-drive muscle sled—was transformed by one visionary grandpa with a cutting torch and some big block dreams. Around the late ’70s, he grafted the bed of a ‘69 El Camino onto the back and added a […]
The fourth and final generation of Oldsmobile’s oddball Toronado debuted in 1986 (and was canned in 1992), was built on a smaller unibody E-body platform that it shared with the Buick Riviera and Cadillac Eldorado. The Troféo version of the Toronado was unusually cool — it had funky hidden headlights, a sporty FE3 suspension, faux […]
The first generation Oldsmobile Toronado (1966-1970) was the first front-wheel drive ‘Murican car since the 1936 Cord and it also had sweet hidden headlights and a wicked body shape that was NOT El Camino in any form. But today, we’ve got a customized Toronado that was given the El Camino treatment a few years ago […]
The second-generation Chevrolet Corvair remains to this day the only mass-market American car to feature a rear-mounted air-cooled engine. This was the preferred configuration for amazingly popular cars like the Volkswagen Beetle, Renault 4CV, and Fiat 500 (and even the single-motor Tesla Model S if you think about it)…but Americans wanted their cars to be […]
This next car defies categorization. Is it a van? A minivan? Mobile office? Motorhome? Limo? Or, is this the most awesome thing you’ve seen all week? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, AND YES! The thing you see in front of you is a one-off custom built by Glenn Pray of Oklahoma for a guy named […]
The first generation Oldsmobile Toronado (1966-1970) was a groundbreaking car for a number of reasons as it was the first front-wheel drive ‘Murican car since the 1936 Cord. It also had sweet hidden headlights and a wicked body shape that still looks striking 50 years after it was born. Today’s Toronado has been given the […]
Do you like doors? Like, really like doors. Then we’ve got a treat for you, a real symphony of doors and windows and door knobs and rows of seats that’ll take months to vacuum all of the kids detritus out of the interior. Which would you prefer — a 1968 Oldsmobile Toronado offered for $12,500 […]
There are a few things that make up childhood memories (or trauma?) more than road trips from back when road trips always involved breakdowns and cross country driving with the windows down. If you were lucky enough to have a bunch of siblings, there was the issue of seat position…and NOBODY wanted to sit on […]
An 80s Oldsmobile, particularly an oddball model like the Toronado Trofeo, is a sight that often triggers the comment “you don’t see them on the road nomore.” This is because the fourth and final generation Toronado, which debuted in 1986 (and was canned in 1992), was built on a smaller unibody E-body platform that it […]