GM had developed such a formidable reputation in the past decades that everyone expected them to pull the rug out from under the German luxury makers and Japanese economy champions just as they had demolished all earlier competition. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Oldsmobile-keresked zlete Wisconsinban, 1957 krl. IF they had given the 4drs a longer wheelbase ( like Ford did with the Torino and Maverick) I might think differently. You dont have the issue of car being dated by its design like a 57 Cadillac or a 59 Oldsmobile. First year cars always get me. Please note that photos may not reflect current remaining parts. After my father died, I drove it briefly, by then it was starting to rust and on a good day it got all of 13 mpgthen I sold it. Has the Rocket 350, original 4 barrel, original non HEI ignition, all original wiring remains uncut or tampered with. Manage Settings . Take it or leave it but we would sell the entire assembly at the back glass only price. $1,500 . While Chevy and Pontiac intermediates got . Most of the Omegas I saw in my youth usually had a Van Ness Oldsmobile dealers frame on them. $24,000 Dealership CC-1674298 1971 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Check out our 1971 Oldsmobile Delta 88 convertible, which comes with factory air, power steering, po . I remember looking at these at the local dealer, and thinking at 9 years old that this was pretty cool. Hoses Radiator Bushings and Cushions Radiator Cap Radiators Upper Radiator Hoses Water Necks Cowl and Firewall Courtesy Lamp Switch Cowl Side Panel Cowl Vent Repair Kit Sold fairly well here in Chi-area, but not as well as Skylarks, both F and RWD. YoY price change N/a. Entdecke For 1973-1974 Oldsmobile Omega Instrument Panel Lamp Socket SMP 89844VJ in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! The SportOmega pioneered urethane plastic fenders in 1981 and featured red-and-orange striping, white-over-gray paint, and a sloping front grille shared with the SX and ES. Holy moly!!! True that its based on the long produced Nova body and frame but 1973 was the first year for the hatchback body style. Since GM had the sharpest divisional setup and the most single brand dealerships, their only way to ensure those single brand dealerships remained viable businesses was to give them a the same product slightly differentiated and renamed. You can find it yourself, if you click on the images section after typing in Google. Our local dealer carried Chevrolet, Oldsmobile and Cadillac, and did so in the 1950s and 1960s. I found this one on craigslist, only 49,000 miles with plenty of options. The neighboring town, which was larger in population, had two GM dealers one had Chevrolet and Oldsmobile franchises at the same facility, while the other combined Buick, Cadillac and Pontiac franchises. E very So let's take a look back at the first and second generations specifically. 1973-74 Red Polyurethane Control Arm Bushing Set with 1-5/8" O.D. What to do? It sits on a 1977 Chevy 3 3, 4-door long-bed 4x4 chassis with heavy-duty Dana 60 axles Chrome Wheels . This reminded me of another asinine feature of these X-body cars. It probably was in the 1974 model year Omega. 350 Rocket. The result of this wisdom was the two- and four-door "Aeroback" body style applied to the Buick Century and Oldsmobile Cutlass. Clean it up, 3. It looks more like a Buick Apollo than a Cadillac Noville. You wanna compact? Make a Nova clone out of it. And that brand difference makes its most notable appearance under the hood as this Omega is powered by a 180 net HP Oldsmobile 350 CI V8 engine no Chevymobile here. $3,500. The idle is smooth and and the engine sounds great! This was a versatile chassis and size. Excellent condition. By this point, the Oldsmobile compact car has become my favourite car of the 70s, passing the Buick Skylark/Century as the best looking cars. theyll make it! See, shoved down their throats implies that the corporation imposed these cars on the divisions, and Im really not sure that was the case. Dave, regarding the Oldsmobile badge behind the rear windows you mentioned. Oldsmobile Oldsmobile Repair Parts Showing 1-20 of 324 1976-1979 Oldsmobile Omega Gas Tank without Filler Neck - 21 Gallon - 39-5/8" x 21-1/4" x 10-1/4" SKU: 54-73-111 1976-1979 Oldsmobile Omega Gas Tank without Filler Neck - 21 Gallon - 39-5/8" x 21-1/4" x 10-1/4" $200.21 $180.19 Clearance 1 available. It's located in San Bernadino, California. But Oldsmobile never made a Spirit of America edition! CC Effect strikes me big time. The X-bodies were all-new front-wheel drive cars for 1980. DVID #: 73OL2775C; Make: Oldsmobile; Model: Omega; Year: 1973; Body Type: Style: 4 Door Sedan; Lot: Casa Grande; Price: Call to see if your part is still on the vehicle; Contact Us At 800-905-8024. The evenly spaced vertical bars mark this as a 73. Sign up for our free daily email and youll never miss another find: Original Year End Special: 1980 Chevrolet C-10 Bonanza, BF Auction: 1961 Volkswagen Samba Deluxe 23-Window. To view the purposes they believe they have legitimate interest for, or to object to this data processing use the vendor list link below. 4 Door Sedan. Thats the buyers consideration. Cadillac dealerships were not common north of the border but most often paired with Chevy-Olds though a few Pontiac-Buick-GMC houses sold Caddies. (first posted 10/16/2012) As if Oldsmobile wasnt already selling enough Cutlasses in the 70s, someone at GM must have felt that the brand needed a smaller car that would bolster both their sales and EPA ratings. A friend owned a clean 1975 Olds Omega Salon hatchback around the 1980-83 timeframe. If your car was originally licensed in say, January and you fail to license it for a while and you decide to license it again say in October, you have to pay for the time that lapsed since January and the plate is therefore only good for November and December for the year you re-license it and one additional year, rather than for the entire 2 years licenses are normally good for. Well before this car debuted, Oldsmobile and Cadillac were often paired at the dealer level, except in the larger cities. Im pretty sure it was the only Buick in the parking lot. Or subscribe without commenting. Been garaged its entire life. Not saying I agree. Stock#414NDY This vehicle is located in Carmel, IN. The volume was in the coupes. Cars in this condition are always my favorite you just cant fake the real quality here. I didnt mean to say that the x-body was unpopular, but Ive read on the internet that some people felt the Omega might not have been as popular amongst the 4 x-body options, (Nova, Ventura, Apollo, Omega). Add to Cart. Made These included the SX coupe (replaced by the ES in 1982), ES sedan. Insurance paid $3k and I went down and put a down payment on a 1980 Ford Mustang..an original Ford Deadly Sin. YoY price change N/a. That just seems like really bad engineering. If I recall correctly, this car was the result of dealer complaints regarding the elimination of the six-cylinder engine in the 1972 F-85, followed by the elimination of the F-85 itself for 1973, as much as anything else. In smaller towns, such as the one where I lived, it was not uncommon for one dealer to carry several GM brands on the same lot. Because Ive heard some dissent from vintage car owners. Remember, this was before the internet. Leaves and twigs akimbo . If you coupled the latter engine with the four-speed, you might have had a somewhat interesting ride. Sign up for our free daily email and youll never miss another find: Giant Drop-Top: 1969 Mercury Marquis Convertible. There were alot of stand-alone Oldsmobile dealerships through the 70s and 80s. L ousy Of course people installing 455s into Omegas probably werent too concerned about the A/C box to begin with. &/or thats a light rig. Quantity: 1 Pair. The sheet metal is absolutely perfect and rust free. There were four basic Oldsmobile X bodied cars, the F-85 (the base car), the Omega, Omega SX, and the Omega Brougham. This is the O in the NOVA acronym. Transmissions were the 4 speed manual or the TH125 3-speed automatic. Learn how your comment data is processed. Her dad had fixed it up over a 2 year period of ownership, but her salary no longer supported the car's appetite for ever-pricier gas, so it was reluctantly sold. . NOVA, also known as Nova, Omega, Ventura, and Apollo as all four GM divisions tried to get in on the X-car act that was the sole province, initially, of the Chevrolet Nova. (4.1 Liter) inline-6 from Chevrolet, until 1977 when it was dropped in favor of the lighter 110hp (82kW) Buick 231 V6. Vintage or Retro? I know, I know, salt air, yadda yadda.. Until youve lived in the upper-Midwest, you west-coasters havent seen the meaning of rust! I was talking with a buddy about this the other day. In 1983, the ES was only available in the sedan body style. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Material: Plastic. We would sell the entire hatch when needed by the customer or, if they only wanted the back window they got the hatch, too. In some ways, that attitude did more damage to GM than anything GM management ever did; but I guess back then no one would have imagined a Chevy-Olds-Cadillac dealership like became common in the 80s. Buicks In mid summer, the Olds dealer was all out of Cutlass sedans. Sorry Obbop, Im already a memeber of the Keepers Of Odd Knowledge Society or KOOKS. in. 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale convertible. 26th May 2014, 08:42. So much for the 5 mph front bumper & bumper height stds. Equipment, Poor I guess 1 would have to put a Nova nose on this? . From this angle it doesnt look half bad. Nincompoop Its too bad they were stuck with the 1968 long hood/short deck hard points and couldnt revert to the 1962-67 hard points for more space efficiency. (5.7 Liter) V8 from GM's Buick division. Franchise laws differ from state to state. RULES: No profanity, politics, or personal attacks. See more price trends. There were few changes in 1974. The first two generations of the Omega used rear-wheel-drive configuration, as a badge engineered variant of the Chevrolet Nova. The lone V8 was Oldsmobile's 5.7L (350 cid) "Rocket" V8, which had a 4-speed manual as standard with the 3-speed automatic optional. 1984 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale (Brochure). Of course I would pick Oldsmobile to keep due to its history. Red faced and squinty eyed with anger, He stood in the garage door of the dealers New Car Get Ready Department and watched them swap out a trunk lid with NO metal free dealer advertising next to the tail light. For 1985, the Omega was replaced by the N-body Calais. $12,500. New Headers. Sold with a bill of sale only. DVID #: 73OL9278B Make: Oldsmobile; Model: Omega; Year: 1973; Body Type: At this point, at least Cadillac was spared having one of these shoved down their dealerships.. Each of the GM X-body compacts both 2- and 4-door rode on a 111-inch wheelbase (only one inch less than the A-body intermediate coupes and the 1961-63 F-85/Tempest/Special senior compacts), while Ford used wheelbases of 103 for 2-doors and 109 for 4-doors for Maverick/Comet and Chrysler built its compacts on wheelbases of 111 inches for most Dodge Darts, Plymouth Scamps (and all Valiants from 1974-76) and 108 for Plymouth Dusters, Dodge Demon/Dart Sport and all Valiants through 1973. My 78 Skylark sedan as a 231 V-6 (first year even firing 231/3.8L) . The Valiant Brougham and Dart SE debuted in mid-1974 with mostly trim upgrades such as velour bucket seats with center cushion and armrest and storage pockets behind the seats like in a 98 Regency, along with more woodgrain trim, carpeted lower door panels and color-keyed wheelcovers plus standard automatic transmission, power steering and power brakes. fix all the issues with and have a car worthy of being kept for another 10-15 years. Scripture Olds in San Rafael, Van Ness Olds in San Francisco, Connell Olds in Oakland. We plan to continue working on restoring the car. if(typeof ez_ad_units != 'undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'barnfinds_com-large-leaderboard-2','ezslot_13',148,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-barnfinds_com-large-leaderboard-2-0'); The interior looks like it was paid a visit by Zorro, its pretty slashed up. No Customs, No Duties, No Hassles RULES: No profanity, politics, or personal attacks. So far Ive only see badging on the front grill, rear hatch/trunk lid, and on the lower front fender by the door. Easy to pass for cars in a good or better state of tune. Sedan V8 models with the fifth VIN digit being the letter "K" received a 4-barrel Rochester carburetor. but . 350 4bbl and it had a four-speed (car came from Pennsylvania 74 California cars only had the 3-on-the-tree like my drivers ed 74 Nova or THM. 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