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The last Oldsmobile ever built is for sale
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| December 14, 2017
| Gary Gastelu
Posted on 12/14/2017 9:16:42 AM PST by re_tail20
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To: re_tail20
Oldsmobile deserved to die for the olds/Pontiac version of this monstrosity:
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posted on
12/14/2017 9:39:13 AM PST
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
To: re_tail20
To: re_tail20
No one calls them Government Motors any more? I think they still owe us taxpayers a few billion.
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posted on
12/14/2017 9:41:02 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: IYAS9YAS
I bid $0.27. Its all the pocket change I have.DANG! If I hadn't given my two cents worth earlier, I could have tied your bid.
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posted on
12/14/2017 9:41:05 AM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
To: re_tail20
![](https://i.imgflip.com/1bipdy.jpg?a419856)
Awesome. I love the Alero styling. It's got real bling.
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posted on
12/14/2017 9:41:11 AM PST
by
Obadiah
To: Bonemaker
For 1957, Olds made both a Golden Rocket & Super 88 in both sedan & Holiday 88 sedan, which came as a pillarless hardtop or coupe. The Golden Rocket/Super 88 Fiesta wagons also had no pillars. Golden was base, Super midlevel, & Holiday an option for each. Next up were Starfire & Holiday 98 sedans, coupes, which were longer & high-end types. The Holiday 98 models were top-of-the-line. All model lines had a convertible. Base: Golden Rocket 88/Golden Holiday 88 Golden Rocket 88 Fiesta Mid: Super 88/Super Holiday 88 Super 88 Fiesta Top: Starfire 98/Starfire Holiday 98 This year featured gold-sprayed 371 Rocket 88 engine in both four-barrel & J-2 triple 2V carburetion; no 2V came til 58 when they capped fore & aft carbs. The J-2 had 3 Rochesters; 1 linked & 2 vacuum-dumped, non-progressive linkage (front & rear gummed up from non-use). They also had a J-2R & a J-2-W1 export engine with whatever Olds Bill Holt & Pete Estes could get away with as a factory engine part for Lee Petty (Olds gave all their parts a number so Bill France wouldnt call them cheaters). You may have a thin, high 10-1 compression head gasket which some say were part of the package. Dimpled valve covers mean you have rare, semi-legitimate Isky/Crane solid-lifter cam & adjustable rockers for clearance.
To: PGR88
I was going to say I bet that thing is a real piece if it ever acquires a few thousand miles.
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posted on
12/14/2017 9:42:08 AM PST
by
CommieCutter
("Trump is god emperor and he will win." -- some hacker)
To: Insigne123
To: Bonemaker
Nevermind the last one...just give me a 55 or 57 Super 88.
With the J-2 tri power option, of course. I had a 1966 442 convertible with the L-69 tri power option in the late 90's that I had bought to restore. Times got tight and I had to sell it for what I paid for it. I'm still kicking myself.
To: stylin19a
‘95-’99 a favorite; test model broke impact test machine
To: Responsibility2nd
Not all are bad. I have a 2004 Buick Century (with the V6) that I bought new, and religiously changed the oil every 3000 miles, as well as other maintenance. It had a few features that stopped working over the years (tire pressure sensing was a joke from day 1) but overall it has been extremely reliable and has averaged 28 to 30 miles per gallon.
It now has 275,000 miles on it and refuses to die...which ticks me off because until it does I can’t justify one of those nifty Dodge Challengers to Mrs. RepRivFarm. I drive it to work every day.
As with most car makes....some are good designs, some not.
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posted on
12/14/2017 9:47:48 AM PST
by
RepRivFarm
("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -George Orwell)
To: Responsibility2nd
“For the life of me, I do not understand how General Motors is still in business.
Their cars are subpar, boring and ugly looking. They are undependable and have less than average resale value.
Id sooner buy a Kia or Hyundai than a GM.”
Agreed.
My last GM product was a 2002 Pontiac Bonneville. It was a comfortable car, drove well, and as for looks, well, there were uglier cars. But this Bonneville would break, sitting in my driveway. It was a constant headache.
I traded the Bonneville in on a ‘05 Camry and never looked back. Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, Kia... you can buy those cars and you don’t have to become a frequent flier at the dealership service department.
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posted on
12/14/2017 9:49:09 AM PST
by
brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)
To: re_tail20
The Olds Alero used to be a common vehicle in the Bigs rental fleets. Meh-— Had a rental Chevy Corsica crap out on us halfway up to Santa Fe ski slopes around 1998. Thrifty came out and replaced it with a Ford Thunderbird requested by a friend with me.
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posted on
12/14/2017 9:49:48 AM PST
by
tflabo
To: re_tail20
I wouldn’t have bought the piece of crap in ‘04...why would I or anyone else want it now?
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posted on
12/14/2017 9:50:49 AM PST
by
OldSmaj
(The only thing washed on a filthy liberal is their damned brains.)
To: re_tail20
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posted on
12/14/2017 9:50:49 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(Make America Great Again!)
To: Bonemaker
Been eyeballin a 67 Delmont tjat is just wasting away in the rain near me....cool lines and curves....and same car Ted Kennedy drove into causeway.
Kinda wanna buy it, refurbish it, name it Mary Joe
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posted on
12/14/2017 9:51:08 AM PST
by
TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
(Repeal & replace Obamacare, tax reform, fix infrastructure, fixin military, Israel, kill enemies)
To: re_tail20
Done in by GM badge engineering.
It killed Pontiac, Saturn, Oldsmobile, and Hummer.
This is what happens when the accountants take over the company.
I heard a rumor that GM might be selling their Buick brand to a group of their chinese parts suppliers. Apparently, the chinese are all crazy about the Buick brand. Go figure.
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posted on
12/14/2017 9:51:23 AM PST
by
factoryrat
(We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
To: HamiltonJay
Some men are Baptists
others Catholics
My father was an Oldsmobile man.That son of a bitch would freeze up in the middle of summer on the equator!
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posted on
12/14/2017 9:52:24 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
To: re_tail20
In the mid-70’s I had three friends who all had their folks maybe 67 or 68 Oldsmos, they were all that light metallic green and all looked pretty much the same. It was kind of funy, weird funny. No, it wasn’t a conspiracy but after a few joints we all wondered if we were seeing things when they were all together.
Those cars all ran probably well over 250K miles.
To: re_tail20
My parents owned a 1985 Olds 98.
The thing was so unreliable that my brother and I called it the Oldsmo-PILE.
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posted on
12/14/2017 10:00:34 AM PST
by
SIDENET
(My next tagline will be so awesome.)
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