Posted on 09/18/2023 11:58:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
Nice. I owned 3 Cutlasses, a 73, 74, and a 67 Cutlass, which was blue with a white top, had a 330 with 2 speed automatic, same magnum wheels as in the picture. Took that car on many road adventures as a youngster. One of a few out of the many cars I’ve owned that I wish I never sold.
“My parents purchased a 63 Delta 88.” >> “The 455 Delta 88”
The “Delta” was launched in 1965. It didn’t get the 455 till 1968.
I once owned an Oldsmobile that had absolutely no Oldsmobile names or badging on it.
Which Olds did I own?
The Omega had a “mini” radio which meant you couldn’t replace it to have a kick butt stereo
When little old ladies drove V8s to church.
Similar here— after ‘mastering’ my grandfather’s Willy’s pickup on the farm at nine, he let me drive his Electra 225 all the way into town. Still can’t believe it myself, but true. Parked in front of the old courthouse in Napa.
Depending on the year, the Buick Electra 225 might well be the largest car (not wagon or suv) ever made in terms of length and width. Magnificent.
“that replaced it.”
The 98 didn’t replace the 88. The 98 was the larger and more luxurious model.
Being heavier with the same engine meant slower acceleration.
My dad's last Old's was a '71 Cutlass
Pretty sure it was a ‘67 coupe. I can still recall the smell the interior, and it makes me happy. Drove another boat —my dad’s ‘69 Grand Prix— around the same time. Seemed completely normal to me.
I was born and raised in Lansing, Michigan, home and corporate headquarters of Oldsmobile. You couldn’t swing a stick without hitting an Oldsmobile assembly plant or an Oldsmobile vehicle. There were all sorts of industrial production facilities there who supplied parts to all three car companies. GM vehicles were so predominant my Dad became a Ford man just to not be a Lemming.
My best friend’s Dad worked the Line at one plant and bought one of the first Toronados. A beautiful car. When we were in high school he bought my friend a beat-up used 442. It burned about a quart of oil per mile. Driving to football practice we emulated one of the old WWII Navy destroyers making smoke in the middle of battle. By that time his Dad had used the education benefits and was an Engineer for Olds and my best friend followed his Dad into the automobile engineering business and has now retired.
Oldsmobile was a huge part of my life and I look back in sadness that it is gone.
I can’t believe it took until post # 45 for Ted’s Oldsmobile.
“Depending on the year, the Buick Electra 225 might well be the largest car (not wagon or suv) ever made in terms of length and width. Magnificent.”
The Lincoln Continental was bigger and much heavier.
“Autocrat” was an antiautomobile cultural meme from the early 1900s, when cars were supposedly toys for the rich and good only for running down children, dogs, and nuns. By the 1912, automobiles had lost the elitist stigma, something William Howard Taft deliberately achieved by promoting the technology as president, so Olds could by then use the term for aspirational marketing.
Heritage has the first presidential auto, Taft’s White: https://heritagemuseumsandgardens.org/hmg/1909-white-steam-car/?portfolioCats=409, a transformative automobile, deservedly in the National Register of Historic Vehicles.
This car, though, is by far my favorite in the Heritage collection:
https://heritagemuseumsandgardens.org/hmg/1924-brewster-town-landaulet/
Magnificent!
The cutlass was a really good car.
an old black woman on my paper route owned a dark green 68 455 Toronado that was simply gorgeous...
Sweet
The 88 in our garage was replaced by a 98 shortly after returning from Springfield, VA in Jan 1969.
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