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down on the junkyard

The Junked Cars Of Limerick, Maine

We like to see a sampling of junkyard wares from around the world, and Slantsick has added to our Rusty Iron Grand Tour by photographing some of the more interesting vehicles at C.I.A. Salvage of Limerick, Maine. Make the jump to see the whole gallery and read Slantsick's list of vehicles.


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4:00 PM on Thu Jul 24 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,000 views, 36 comments

industry news

GM To Get More Layoffs, Lose A Brand

According to the WSJ, GM's early-August board meeting is likely to result in layoffs affecting both blue- and white-collar workforces. They're also reporting GM is seriously exploring sloughing off another brand, either by outright closure or by placing it up for sale, a-la Hummer's "strategic review." We've put together a quick brand-viability scorecard breakdown after the jump for those of you playing along at home. More »

8:30 AM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By Andrew Stoy
4,019 views, 89 comments

found on ebay

The Olsen Eagle Toronado: Expanded In Every Direction!

When "looming garage space crises" take over your life, you have but one choice: sell your customized '73 Olds Toronado on eBay! That's what's happening here, as the no-doubt-legendary Olsen Eagle goes up for sale with a starting bid of just $8,500. This beauty cost $64,720 to build in the early 80s (almost 150 grand in 2008 bucks), so you can see it's a once-in-a-lifetime sorta deal. You can fit nine passengers, including three in the rumble seat. Yes, a rumble seat! [eBay Motors]

8:00 AM on Tue Jun 17 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,292 views, 43 comments

Latest by bygeorge: 150 large in today's dollars, and all you got were Wal-Mart trailer-kit lights propped up on the rear bumper? This has to be the most craptacular car ever featured on Jalopnik! (...and THAT says something!) I have never heard of an Olsen more »

down on the street

1967 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser

I've been scouring the island for a Skyroof-equipped Olds Vista Cruiser (or its Buick Sportwagon sibling) for many months now. I saw a very nice blue '67 at the Park Street Car Show last year, but I couldn't find the owner to ask about the car... and there's no way such an original '67 could possibly live on the street, right? Wrong! Alameda is laid out with a tight Victorian maze of tiny side streets and a car on such a street can hide right under my nose, as was the case with this wagon. For years, this car has parked less than two blocks from my house, just around the corner from the '68 Volvo P1800.
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9:00 AM on Wed Jun 4 2008
By Murilee Martin
3,810 views, 84 comments

Latest by n/a: That's my baby. I was in the Alameda Car Show last October 13th (my b-day). I had just had her painted and am still restoring the interior. All I need to do now is the carpet, headliner and get the more »

down on the street bonus edition

1964 Oldsmobile F-85 A Fixture In San Francisco's Chinatown

We've seen an Olds Delta 88 that uses a handicapped placard to park in San Francisco's crowded South of Market neighborhood, and now reader TK has shot this F-85 a mile or so away in SF's even more parking-challenged Chinatown. This Olds is such a regular that it's visible in Google Street View! Make the jump to read TK's description.

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3:00 PM on Wed May 28 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,017 views, 15 comments

classic ad watch

The Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera Knows The Roads From Oregon To Maine!

You may know the '85 Olds Cutlass Ciera best as the car that Jerry Lundegaard gave to a couple of North Dakota hoodlums as partial payment for a harebrained fake-kidnap scheme in the movie Fargo. Quite a claim to fame, that- but don't forget that the Cutlass Ciera was all about patriotism back in the day. Yes, the Ciera was America's "native car," apparently due to Oldsmobile's "special feel." We're going to give this one an 8 out of a possible 10 reading on the Schmaltz-O-Meter™.

2:40 PM on Wed May 21 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,506 views, 40 comments

Latest by mr.chophoppers: @badco/LoJ: I don't think I have ever seen a Ciera coupé. I judt saw my first FE3 last week, which was a bit unexpected in NYC (which is not known for being kind to old cars). more »

down on the street bonus edition

1967 Olds Delta 88 Berths At San Francisco Handicapped Space

Many of you have been sending in great DOTSBE photos (and I'll get to all of them, sooner or later), but today I just had to share this daily-driven big Olds that I often see parked near my office in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. Parking is a swirling, sanity-eradicating nightmare in this part of town, with its big office buildings all around and the Giants' ballpark a couple blocks away, but this 41-year-old Delta 88 sedan has the special handicapped placard that enables it to ease right into a nice fat blue space right in the heart of everything. It's a beater, but it drives every day!

3:00 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,128 views, 26 comments

Latest by n/a: I have 67 olds coupe I love it 425 motor 365hp posi rear end only thing the car has so much power I snapped my drive shaft i had to put in a heavy duty one **************Gas prices getting more »

down on the street bonus edition

Suckers To The Side, Ontario Hates My 98!

Yo, we got to dust these boys off! Whenever I hear the Public Enemy song, I always picture a car pretty much exactly like the Malaise Olds 98 that Schweppes Maymar has very kindly captured for us on the mean streets of Windsor Toronto, Ontario. Make the jump to read what Schweppes Maymar has to say about this fine automobile.

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2:00 PM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,855 views, 48 comments

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A Bombshell For 1942: Oldsmobile B-44!

Fuselage fenders! Flathead straight-8 engine! Double-duty bumpers! The '42 Olds was a great-looking machine, but unfortunately the real bombshells that were dropping in depressingly large quantity that year put the kibosh on its production. At least you could get more or less the same car in 1946!

11:00 AM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,460 views, 13 comments

classic ad watch

1991 Oldsmobile Silhouette: Julie Nimoy's Space Vehicle

Remember the "Dustbuster" GM minivans? The Trans Sport? The Lumina APV? The Silhouette? Sure, it's only been a little over a decade since they stopped making the things, but just about every last one has disappeared. They can't all have been crushed by now, so where did they go? Into space, of course! Let's let the daughter of famous poet Leonard Nimoy 'splain how UFOs are really time machines!

11:00 AM on Tue Apr 8 2008
By Murilee Martin
4,010 views, 47 comments

april fools day

ABC Radio, For The Record, GM Still Owns The Rights To Oldsmobile

Mark Twain once said "a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." Thanks to radio and the web, it can now travel all the way around the world. Remember that list of automotive April Fools' Day jokes? Remember that C&D and Automobile joke about Toyota securing Olds' naming rights? Someone took it to be the truth. And that person was Ron Chapman, filling in for Paul Harvey on his extremely popular ABC Radio show. Ugh. In case you were curious, the appropriate Trademarks are here and here, and they are both owned by GM and good until 2011 according to the US Patent and Trademark Office. The crappy urban legend in the making below the jump. More »

11:20 AM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Matt Hardigree
1,373 views, 33 comments

Latest by n/a: Oldsmobile was once great and coulda/shoulda/woulda continued to do so with better management. Don't arbitrarily pick on dead Oldsmobile. more »

down on the street

1977 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser Station Wagon

We haven't seen many Oldsmobiles in this series, and it's been almost two months since the most recent station wagon, so this Custom Cruiser seems like the right car for today. This is actually our second '77 Olds Custom Cruiser wagon, the other one having been shot just a few blocks from today's car (which also lives just around the corner from the '71 Blazer we saw on Monday.
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9:15 AM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,462 views, 76 comments

Latest by cazart: That Hurst VistaCruiser makes me feel funny like when we climbed the rope in gym class. more »

junkyard find

Convertible Or Not, This Oldsmobile Delmont 88 Faces The Crusher's Jaws


After seeing a Peugeot, a Triumph, and a BMW down on the junkyard, we're going to return to good ol' Detroit Iron today. This '68 Olds Delmont 88 convertible still has plenty of good parts, including the no-doubt-hard-to-find convertible-top gear, which probably fits many other full-sized GM convertibles. The Delmont was made for only two years, and its claim to fame was as the car Teddy Kennedy drove off the Chappaquiddick Bridge. Make the jump for an additional gallery.

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3:45 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,206 views, 37 comments

Latest by mytdawg: Actually the big ones didn't get THAT bad of gas mileage. Certainly no worse than a big SUV. If you could stay out of the afterburner they averaged around 20 to the best of my recollection. If more »

maximum wagon day

You Will Never Catch An Olds Vista Cruiser

If you were pursuing someone you'd probably want something sportier than an AMC Matador, unless the car you're chasing is actually an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser that's towing a boat. And thanks to the great handling and power of the Vista Cruiser, the Matador was evaded with explosive results. We're fairly sure that this is a clip from the show The Fall Guy, because other than that we're not having luck finding a TV show called Soldiers of Misfortune. Just watch out for that outhouse! [YouTube]

4:00 PM on Wed Feb 20 2008
By Matt Hardigree
1,785 views, 31 comments

Latest by Roadster_Guy: That was actually a more exciting car chase than any of the ones included in Sunday's "Knight Rider." more »

maximum wagon day

Want To Be In A Wagon Club? American Station Wagon Owners of America

Everybody likes to belong, especially when you're in a cruelly outcast class of superior cargo carrying capacity and awesomeness. This is why the American Station Wagon Owners of America exists and also why you should check it out. Founded in 1966 and sporting over 500 members strong, ASWOA is the leading wagon based organization in the nation. Members rides range from Chrysler Newport wagons to Chevy caprice wagons and everything in between. Go check em out and have a happy Maximum Wagon Day. [ASWOA.com]

2:00 PM on Wed Feb 20 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
920 views, 20 comments

Latest by POLAЯBEEЯ: @Stoatmaster: And this day in age, oxymoronative even!?!?!? more »

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Big Is Back, Because Bigger Is Better: The 6000SUX


If the folks who made the movie Robocop had really been prescient, they'd have made the 6000SUX (which was based on a '76 Olds Cutlass) a vast SUV instead of a big sedan. Still, 8.2MPG puts it squarely in Excursion territory. It's an American tradition.

11:30 AM on Fri Jan 11 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,465 views, 35 comments

offbeat news

Old Canadian Busted For Racing Olds Under New Law

Ontario police caught a young-at-heart and lead-of-foot 85-year-old Canadian man going 100 mph (40 mph over the speed limit) in his Oldsmobile Intrigue, which makes him the oldest person to be charged under a new street racing law. The new law states that anyone going more than 31 mph over the speed limit can be charged with racing, even if it's just solo racing. The man, one of 2,300 to be busted under the law, claims he was just "going to the bank and shopping."
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10:45 AM on Mon Jan 7 2008
By Matt Hardigree
1,233 views, 31 comments

Latest by GrimaceXL: I did over 150km 2 weeks ago on the 401 from Sarnia to London in an '87 grand national, I couldn't tell how fast I was going, because the speedometer in it ends at 140km. Which is just over the more »

down on the street

1968 Oldsmobile Cutlass Convertible

Since we had a Plymouth yesterday, we need to have an Oldsmobile today. I dug through my stash of DOTS car photos and could find only one Olds ready to go (and we've only seen two of them prior to today: a '64 Jetstar 88 and a '77 Custom Cruiser wagon). Does Alameda have an anti-Oldsmobile bias? Such are the mysteries of the Island That Time Forgot. Anyway, here's a 1968 (or maybe it's a 1969- damn if I can tell the difference; Olds experts, please tell us what we have here) Cutlass convertible, to bring our total count of Alameda Oldsmobiles up to three.
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9:00 AM on Fri Jan 4 2008
By Murilee Martin
3,449 views, 29 comments

Latest by squablow: Very nice. Seems like Olds made more ragtop A-bodies than any other GM brand. I hope my '70 convert gets finished in my lifetime. more »

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