1971 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale convertible

Needs some work but tremendous potential for $3800.

http://www.kijiji.ca/v-classic-cars...v8/1205199939?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true

 

Assuming those are $ - Canadian, that's only $2,876 in US dollars, folks. A real good deal.

 

Yes it is.

 

Anyone snap this gem up yet?

 

Dunno, but I just saw those enormous overriders on the front bumpers. Must be the inspiration for bull bars.

 

This is a nice old car, notice how those big long doors seem to hang just right considering how old it is. Good job by the seller on the ad.

 

My '70 Holiday 2-door was the same way...until the door slammed your shin when you faced uphill!

 

Those Bumper guards were very common in big cities that had Parallel Street Parking. Very Common to se in the NY or NJ area. Maybe also in Toronto?

 

We have parallel parking here in the cities of the Pacific Northwest, and I have never seen overriders that tall! I'll have to take a look and see if those were factory or J.C. Whitney.

 

Nice car, but a couple of corrections to his ad are in order.

First, he says in the video that he has a replacement taillight "from a '73 Delta 88." Not possible as the taillights on the '73 were completely different, being horizontal, rather than that trapezoidal look of the '71.

Here's the rear end of a '73 Delta 88:




A taillight from a '72 won't work, either, as, in that year, the taillight was a two-piece unit on each side:




1974 won't work, either, as that year the taillight was not only a two-piece unit on each side, but it also wrapped around to the side of the car.




'75 won't work either because, while Olds went back to a one-piece unit, it still wrapped around to the side of the car:




And, yes '76 won't work, either.




The ONLY place a replacement taillight for a '71 Delta 88 can come from is another '71 Delta 88.



My other comment is about his production statistics:

"General Motors produced 2,883 Delta 88 convertibles for the 1971 model year. The 'Royale Brougham' trim package reduces that to one of 1,200."

He is correct that production of '71 Delta 88 convertibles was 2,883, one of the lowest production totals of any of the final generation of the Delta 88 convertible ('71 to '75). But there was no such thing as a "Royale Brougham" trim package, and there was no distinction made in production statistics between "Delta 88" convertibles and "Delta 88 Royale Brougham" convertibles, so that 1,200 number is meaningless.

All final-generation Oldsmobile Delta 88 convertibles were from the top-of-the-line "Delta 88 Royale" series. None were Delta 88s or Delta 88 Customs. Olds did not start using the word "Brougham" in the name or description or options available on a Delta 88 until 1979.