HERE is when the Olds Cutlass went Full Retard.
Posted on 12/14/2017 9:16:42 AM PST by re_tail20
This was definitely not your father’s Oldsmobile, because he never had the chance to buy it.
The last Oldsmobile ever built is going up for auction on Dec. 15. The 2004 Alero is still owned by General Motors and until recently was part of the GM Heritage Center collection.
The dark cherry sedan rolled off the line at Lansing Car Assembly in Michigan on April 29, 2004 and was signed under the hood and in the trunk by all of the workers at the now-shuttered plant.
GM had announced plans in 2000 to eliminate what was at the time America’s oldest car brand, due to its unprofitability. Pontiac, Saturn and Hummer would follow it into the history books a few years later, leaving the automaker with four core American brands: Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac.
The Alero is being offered at the State Line Auto Auction in Waverly, N.Y., which is one of GM’s top outlets for selling company-owned and off-lease cars. The automaker has not said why it has decided to let the car go...
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HERE is when the Olds Cutlass went Full Retard.
You left out Saab, GM destroyed them also.
They made good cars until GM turned them into crap.
I’m a bunch ignorant here, impact machine for what ? and what broke it ?
I’ve had a bazillion cars since I got my driver’s license.
I forgot a couple more olds’ that I\we had.
I forgot that my wife brought a 72 cutlass 350 rocket into the marriage.
I could leave skid marks from a standing stop in that thing.
Traded it in for a 71 Super Beetle.
I also had an 83 Toronado that was a basket case.
Every time it rained, I had a swimming pool in the trunk.
Spent about 3 grand in 3 months(on a $600 car) before I gave up the ghost and traded that to a Midas mechanic for front\rear brakes on my wife’s Chevette.
My father was an Oldsmobile man.”
It’s like an old flame that never quite goes away and always has a place in you heart.
I did not know Oldsmobile was out of business....
I had owned a 1977 Olds Delta 88 and the rear end leaned to the left, the windshield leaked, the windshield fogged up.
I learned to replace the push rods as they got clogged like arteries. Finally blew a cylinder. While being towed back on a flatbed the gas line started leaking. I could have been a sigalert! Fire on the 210 freeway.
I still drive a 1988 Cutlass Supreme Classcic V-8, with 77,000 original miles.
Thank you for the detailed discussion. You obviously know whereof you speak. My dad got a brand new gold 4 door hardtop (pillar less) top of the line Super 88 in spring of 1957. I think it had 3 two barrels. Imagine my joy at driving that around my senior year in high school? That I, and a number of others, are still alive is a testimony to my maturity, restraint and driving skills at such a young age. Whew!
Never a finer automobile ever in my opinion. Spoiled me for life.
Ted Kennedy drove a Oldsmobile Delta 88 (over a bridge).
THat’s just a Chevy Malibu with Olds badges on it.
THat’s just a Chevy Malibu with Olds badges on it.
I think the last good GM’s were 1958’s.
You mean 60's and 70's, don't you?
I used to live down the street from a guy I went to HS with who had a really nice ‘69 Cutlass “with a 350.”
I saw him smoke both wide rear tires (posi) while already going 35 mph, so I confronted him about the 350 afterwards, and he fessed up that he was running a 455 that was built up.
I loved my ‘64 Malibu SS. The only problem I ever had with it was a bolt that came out of the flywheel. It was usually in the bottom of the flywheel housing, but occasionally would bounce up and get hit by the flywheel teeth. Then it sounded like a machine gun. After about a year, the bolt finally punched a hole in the housing and egressed. I missed that bolt.
That would be a Chevroray...............
That’s why they are offering employee pricing, 20% off msrp and 6 years 0% finance.
While Ford just giggles and gets msrp with out the bs
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