The Oldsmobile Connection

[regencybeagles_gmc-olds]

Hey

My name is Al, just about 20 been drivin Oldsmobiles since I learned to drive basically bout 4 years ago.

Started out with an 82 Coupe de Ville but soon learned the woes of 80s Cadillacs, despite their high level of style and their plush interiors. What good is white leather and couple hundred pounds of chrome in a car that doesn't move? Had an 82 Cutlass Supreme Brougham 2-door, 307. Nice car, no power options but dressed up nice. New paint job and a new dashboard, reupholstered headliner and vinyl top that car was awesome. Was great on gas got about 18 mpg. Don't know why I sold it but I did. Moved to a 78 Caprice Landau which was nice, ran great but was a terribly poor maintained vehicle, mechanically. excellent body and interior, but everything in the world was wrong with that car and despite a new carburetor and a well tuned engine it still only got 12-13 mpg, which didn't bother me but would now. Bout that time I had an 83 GMC Sierra so-called 3/4 ton with a junk 305. Was a fair truck was worked hard in the time I had it. Played with it quite a bit, but she worked every day too. Until it came time to do body work on it and I said hell with this rig. While I had that I bought an 84 Delta 88 Royale that was a priest's car having strong fond memories of my Cutlass. PLAIN. was just a red 4-door with a 307/2004R. had cruise-control, split bench seat, rear window defogger and an am-fm stereo. other than that it didn't have a/c, a right sideview or anything. This car was great and I miss it alot. But there aren't many left up here in the rust belt worth anyone's time. Sold that one too. Dumb mistake. So went thru a couple vans and an 87 Delta 88 [just as plain as the 84, really only this one had A/C in exchange for a split seat]. That car was a piece of trash, but overall those Delta 88s and Ninety-Eights are great cars many friends and family members have owned far better equipped ones.

Having the need for a truck doing Cement work of my own on the side, I bought an 88 GMC Sierra SLE extended cab with an 8' box. 4X4. Loaded nice truck. 350 EFI/700R4. well tuned and maintained gets 18 mpg, can sometimes stretch 20 out of it. I love it. Loaded truck, anti-lock brakes, shift-on-the-fly 4wd, bucket seats console, equalizer, digital a.c, tilt, leather-wrapped steering wheel, p/w, p/l, cruise, running lights, cargo light, rear defogger, opening quarter panel windows [dark tinted] so on and so on. I have very expensively accessoried it. Perhaps foolishly for a work truck. Black with silver lower body and wheel flares, clean maroon velour interior. paid 1500 dollars for it. Came with a tilting factory bed [the lift isn't gm but the beds original], and an 8' fisher speedcast plow.

Also just recently got an 88 Cutlass Supreme for a couple hunded due to a dead fuel pump [therefore non running at the time], medium red, W-series. Bought it for fuel economy but found it too be a really nice car. But to compare it to a g-body makes no sense. its a nice car, really bought it with 97,000 original miles. p/w, p/l, p/s, p/mirrors, cruise, tilt, a/c, digital display dash, extra lights and other small options. immaculate red velour split bench interior. Roomy, nice mildly sporty ride. Good car. Gets 33-34 mpg. Most cost effective thing I've ever owned.

Enough of my rambling. Hope to be of help whenever I can. have many rwd olds parts from the early 80s hanging around. oldsmobile service manuals with some serious wiring diagrams and couple of gm b-o-c body service manuals.

[73Delta88]

Welcome to TOC!

wow, 10 cars in 4 years! :shock:

[regencybeagles_gmc-olds]

Yea. I've had alot :lol: . Had quite a few at the same time. Just sold the Caprice couple weeks ago. Had that 2 years :blush: . Cadillac was junk really, didn't keep it long, 82 Cutlass I fixed up and was offered good money didn't have that much more than 10 months or so. Caprice I got in Mar 04. Delta 88 September 04, sold it in May 05. 83 GMC Sierra in October 04, kept until June 05. 87 Delta 88 came about in May 05 but didn't stay long, since my cousin needed a car, didn't care for it too much anyway, was in rather rough shape but went over the road damn good. In June 05 I bought the 88 GMC Sierra SLE and have it still. 112,000 miles when I bought it. And this Cutlass I just recently picked up. Plan to keep the GMC and the Cutlass a while, since they are late models [compared to everything else i've owned] and parts are easier to get [well atleast for the truck anyway]. The Oldsmobile small block was such a great motor never seen anybody anywhere have trouble with them but I do like the Electronic Fuel Injection much more in our depressingly long winters here in Maine.