1990 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser

$4000.

http://charlestonwv.craigslist.org/cto/4647010054.html

 

Love those wheels!

 

Why the lack of interest?

 

I would say it has to do with the mileage (180,000) and the price ($4,000).
Both are too high in my opinion.

 

Agreed.

I do like his "turned antique in August" comment. The idea is that a car becomes an antique once it's 25 years old is not set in stone anywhere that I'm aware of. Does this mean the car was actually assembled in August 1989, or is he referring to the start of the 1990 model year? By my definition, if going by the 25-year definition, a 1990 model year car becomes an antique on January 1, 2015.

 

To put it another way, this is why:

https://savannah.craigslist.org/cto/4655708023.html

From a thread you started.

Here's a very nice car, probably more desirable than a wagon in most people's minds, with half the mileage of this wagon, and for $1,000 less.


This Custom Cruiser is worth maybe $2,000.

 

My Custom Cruiser was assembled in October of 1989, I'm wondering the same thing. The '15's will be out soon, either way it may help me. It's 25 in Florida. Does the VIN indicate build date, day, one or the other, or neither? My wagon had those wheels, I've got the steel ones with wire covers.

 

THat's a pretty car, but yes miles are too high for the price. Lower options too. Base radio, no cornering lights, no fiber-optic signals.

I LOVE the wheels though, and the colors are great too.

-Mike

 

No, and I don't think it ever has.

Back in the '60 and '70s, GM cars at least would have a small metal plate (the "body cowl tag" or just "cowl tag") riveted to the firewall under the hood, usually on the driver's side, which had codes on it indicating some of the options that were installed on the car, and there as also a code giving the week and month the car was built.

Here's one from a 1965 Oldsmobile:




The "O7D" on the left side next to the rivet indicates that this car was built the fourth week (D) of July (07), so, given that was a '65 model year car, that would be July 1965. That would make it a very late build for the '65 model year as the factory changeover to the '66 models would have occurred in August.

Fully decoding this tag yields the following:

ST 65 = 1965 model year
3 = Oldsmobile division
38 = Cutlass
37 = 2-door hardtop body style (Holiday Coupe)
LAN = manufactured at Lansing assembly plant
31523 = body number at Lansing, contains no codes
TR 950-B = black vinyl strato bucket seats
The first "K" indicates lower body color = "Ocean Mist"
The second "K" indicates upper body/vinyl roof/convertible (depending) color = Ocean Mist. So this car likely had a vinyl roof the same color as the rest of the car.
W = tinted windshield

next to the 2:
L = floor shift
G = four-speed manual transmission
T = power antenna

4V = W-29 trim, meaning all 442 markings and equipment

5W = deluxe front seat belts with retractors


I don't know if GM was still putting cowl tags on cars into the '80s and '90s. You should go look under the hood of your car and see if you can find something like this. Of course, by 1990, it might have been a sticker instead of a metal plate, and it might be on the inside of the trunk lid instead of on the firewall for all I know. But if you do find it or something like it, take a clear photo of it and post it. It would be cool to see.

 

Getting back to this point, for states that do keep track of a car's age like this for the purposes of calling it an "antique" for registration purposes, they all go by calendar year. So a 1990 model year car will officially be 25 years old on January 1, 2015. To try to do it by the actual assembly date of the car would get ridiculous very quickly as that would mean, going the other way, that a car built in, say, March 1990 wouldn't officially be an antique until March 2015, not January 1. Every car would be different, and bookkeeping on the part of the DMV would become a nightmare.

 

Let alone as a loose example, lets say a 1975 what ever new model built in November of 1974 or October just so it could hit the show room floor pre it's intended model year.

 

Well thank you all, that pretty much answered my questions. Like it's been said here, the motor vehicle bureau wouldn't be immediately declaring cars 25 years old on their build dates. I got mine on January 12, 2013, remote chance they'll take note of that when they send the registration and tag bill out. I know my VIN is visible from outside the car, just for the record I'll look today to see if the cowl tag is on it too. Seems like I've seen one on it.

Overall, the blue one here is in better condition. I don't have cornering lights either, the radio has a cassette player that likely doesn't work because someone pried a tape out. It has a 6 way driver's seat that won't work because the female fitting into the wires is fried. That's for another thread, don't want to totally hijack this one.

 

what a nice one