For $10,890, drive an Olds Gutless

Finding a survivor ‘70s GM product, and then discovering it has one of the company's diesel engines under hood is sort of like starting a semester abroad and then finding out your roommate is Amanda Knox. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Pipe Olds Cutlass is just such a discovery, and like Amanda, its price might just…

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Low-Mileage 1976 Olds Toronado For $7,900... And It's Brown!

A personal coupe must have presence– that indomitable combination of style and physicality. Today's contestant is endowed with the presence of a UPS truck, and, like that service, asks what can brown do for you?

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Hummer Tops Recent Study Of Most Ticketed Vehicles

A study of traffic tickets revealing the most and least ticketed vehicles reinforces obvious stereotypes: Hummer owners are arrogant, self-centered and over-indulgent, while drivers of Buick Park Avenues appear to have no discernible pulse.

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The Olsen Eagle Toronado: Expanded In Every Direction!

Custom_Toronado_494.jpgWhen "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…

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1967 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser

67_VistaCruiser_Roof_Window.jpgI'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…

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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!

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1977 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser Station Wagon

77_CCruise_Frt_RH.jpgWe 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…

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