1978 Oldsmobile Cutlass Cruiser

52k miles and 260 V8. Low option but very clean!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Oldsmobile-...d492aa074&item=400659488884&pt=US_Cars_Trucks

 

Somebody swiped the rear door window regulators off this poor wagon!

 

Uh, the fixed rear door windows on the downsized 1978 GM G model mid-size sedans and wagons was universal across the GM model line to save weight and rear seat hip room.

 

Sorry man, but what exactly do you mean? Rear doors/windows look correct IMO, the vent windows if that's what you are referring to were manual with a power option. Am I missing something?:confused:

 

Ohhh, if that's what you referring to.....Ya GM cheeped out, no window roll down. But I will ad having Volarie wagons and Fox body wagons where the rear door windows rolled own I call BS on GM's claim of more room (save cost over weight yes, but not room) .....there was enough room, GM cheeped out IMO, there would be more than enough room just put 3 people in the back seat of all the big 3's of the time. Mopar Volarie/Aspen RWD had the best room and closest to the size if not identical...... there windows rolled down.

 

Haha, I know! It still looks pretty strange though......I guess the GM designers swiped them? :confused:

Or more accurately......the accountants!

 

Yes, part of the 1970s GM design!

 

I distinctly remember going to the '78 model L.A. auto show and noticing this issue. I generally would gravitate to the wagons that were on display, and since all the GM intermediates were new that year I wanted to check them all out. Don't remember which one I saw first, but when I checked out the rear seat, I started looking around for the power window switches, since I didn't see a window crank. Looked in the front seat, hmm.... crank windows? Dang, GM must have forgot to put the window regulators in this one. Then when I saw the same thing on the next one, I figured it out. I knew GM made a big mistake right there. Took them until the front drive intermediates came out to fix it.

I wonder how many customers GM lost to Ford and Chrysler on that one item alone?

 

Bid to $2000 with reserve still not met.

 

Nice Oldsmobile!

 

It is a nice looking olds, but it is basic, doesn't even have a passenger side mirror! And I don't think I have ever seen that style Cruise Control Switch, I thought it was a rear window defrost switch at 1st, then I noticed the rear window did not have a the grid for it.


I thought all GM cars of the era had Cruise control switches on the turn signal lever, learn something not useful almost every day!

 

I think that's a master switch for the cruise.