To be such junk even when new is unforgiveable! I understand some of you will think, “well, GM has improved since then”. Yes, Oldsmobiles from this period look great, especially from the front, but my Cutlass solidified the fact that I will never, ever purchase another GM product, or any UAW assembled car for that matter. And for a V-8 4 barrel it was amazingly slow and non-responsive even before the torque converter issues. The torque converter was going out and it stalled if you drove it more than a half hour, you had to stop and let the car cool down. It used about a quart of oil every 100 miles, no joke, and that was when it had 50000 miles. It was the biggest piece of junk of a car I have ever owned and I kept it for less time than any other car I ever owned. T-tops, great factory wheels, buckets, you name it, the car looked great. To look at it was sheer eye candy, a beautiful 2 door coupe with about 3 times as much paint as came from the factory after I shot it with a custom silver color I came up with that had much more metallic in it than the original color. Well, I owned a 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. And while I may seem critical of this mint-condition 88, let’s be honest: I’d still rather drive this Olds than a Prius. For the record, I love survivor cars like this as they remind us just how far we’ve come on the automotive landscape. I suspect it’s because the German cars in my life all had orange turn signals and most domestics were solid red, earning the Eighty-Eight a point or two in my youth-informed opinions of motor vehicles. I had a neighbor growing up who owned one of these, and for some reason the tail lights always stood out.
MASS AIRFLOW SYSTEM FOR A 1987 OLDSMOBILE DELTA 88 DRIVERS
But when you realize that Honda was doing the same thing with its Accord and giving drivers luxuries like power windows and decent handling out of the box, is it really all that surprising that Oldsmobile is gone and Buick continues to look for a home run sedan? My first car was an ’87 Accord that had a power moonroof, auto up/down driver’s window and a willing (if not slightly anemic) four-cylinder mill. That’s where we’ve always shined with our domestic vehicles – can’t kill it reliability. Now, I will say the 3.8 V6 does have a solid reputation for longevity. And don’t get me wrong, I love crank windows – but only in my prehistoric German econoboxes that didn’t have enough power on board to have both functioning electric windows and working headlights. Granted, there was nothing particularly impressive about the late 80s car scene, but crank windows in what was meant to be a slightly upmarket product? That blows my mind. While this Oldsmobile 88 is likely a perfectly reliable daily driver, it’s still hard to believe this passed muster when the Japanese were rolling out Integras and Camrys. Here on eBay is the 1987 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale, complete with acres of red cloth seating and roll-yourself windows! Last week, we featured one heck of a creampuff Citation that drew quite a reaction – well, here’s another often ignored GM product that has miraculously survived with a mere 14,276 miles on the clock.
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