What's the lowest mileage 30+ year old Olds you know of?

[Guest]

Just wondering.

[Guest greg72monte]

Way back in 1978, when I sold my 69 Toronado to my brother (big mistake)

I was getting 7mpg on a good day. It was a 455-4, 400hp I think?

However when I drove to Florida with the cruise control on at a steady 55mph, I got 17-18mpg. I was amazed!

On second thought, my brother inherited all the rust problems. The rear quarters were rusted through around the FULL wheel arch, even when I bought it in 1975.

Oh, did you mean odometer mileage or gas mileage....Sorry.

[Jack Harlin]

I was talking on the phone to Bill Hirsch on Friday. I met Bill when he 1st. started selling at Hershey. He told me his 51 Patrician has 32,000 miles, & is all original. Jack

[Guest]

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[Guest]

I BOUGHT A 1956 88 TWO DOOR HARDTOP IN 1992 IT HAD 43000 ORIGINAL MILES BUT NEEDED RESTORATION BECAUSE IT HAD BEEN SITTING OUT FOR 20 YEARS WITH ON COVER OR SHELTER OF ANY KIND. PAID 1800 AND AFTER RESTORATION SOLD IN 93 FOR 6500

[pblack]

I bought a '71 Cutlass Convertible with 26K miles . . .

[Guest imported_Tom Mackesy]

31k on the 68 442 I bought 2 years ago.

[Guest]

Would this be considered low milage, 1969 Cutlass S with 812 miles and even though it's only 20 years old, a 1984 Cutlass Supreme ( the last year of the rear wheel drive cars from Lansing ) with 1200 miles?

[Guest]

My 1979 Calais Diesel has 47K not real low but I like it. RL

[Mikel]

Not an Olds, but I have a 1969 Jeep M715 (Military 5/4 ton Pick-up) with 13K miles. With 5/4 ton springs and 5.88 gears, it's surprising it has THAT MANY miles

[40coupe66]

I just bought a 1940 F-66 Sport Coupe with 15,000 miles.

[Guest Joe_Varley]

A couple yers ago I sold my black '50 88 fastback with 58,000 miles, and my black '50 Club Coupe with 45,000 miles.

[plance1]

My 69 Delta 88 Hardtop has 31,000 miles on it.

[PONTIAC1953]

i know of a 1958 olds super 88 4door hardtop with factory air, 17,000 original miles

[Oldsfan]

The Oldsmobile Collection includes a green '40 60 series woody wagon. I don't know the current mileage, but back in the mid '90s, when the car was still in local private hands, the wagon only had 12,000 miles.

[Guest Varmit1]

Newbie here, but I was cruising on the net and came across this post. Anyway, my mom has a 79 Olds Regency that is showroom new. It is not quite 30 years old, but close. This car is amazingly in pristeen condition. Why? Because it only has about 2000 original miles on it. When you open the door, it has that showroom smell. Mom is so proud of this car and just drives it to get it inspected. It is all original except the battery and the muffler (which had a rust hole in it and wouldn't pass inspection). She still has the original (silver) muffler in a box. It has been kept garaged and well maintained through all these years. It still has the original air in the original tires. Man, that is some old air. LOL.

She would like sell it if she could get the right price. We thought about Ebay, but we haven't much knowledge about selling on ebay. So, I guess we'll just hang on to it until the right deal comes along. Don't really know how much it is worth.

Here is a page I through together with some pics. It has been driven some since the pics were taken, but it is still, basically, a new car. Just thought I would show it off for her.

http://www.geocities.com/varmit105/79Olds.html?1007635752060

[Mickey McChesney]

I have a '68 Delta 88 with 22000 miles, excellent condition all original.

[Steve Moskowitz]

Well, a serious contender has to be the '37 Olds that sold just a few years ago with less than 900 miles!! I could say my 1903 has 200 miles on it but the odometer is broke! <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Ah, that is a joke guys as the car has no odometer! <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[Guest D. Yaros]

Watching Barret Jackson "Life on the Block" show last night. They replayed the auction of the 1954 Olds F-88 concept car. The odometer clearly showed it to have 177 miles!

[Guest D. Yaros]

My 62 Dynamic 88-Conv has 32,000 documented miles on it. Not bad for a 45 yr. old ride?

[Bhigdog]

My 55 Olds S-88 Looks new, smells new, drives like new and shows 67 miles on the odometer. ........Bob

[Guest speedydeedy]

Its not the lowest milage listed here but for its age I think its pretty low. My 1932 F32 4dr sedan has been in my family since 1962,It has 55,000 miles on it.

[BillV]

My 1950 Olds 88 has 37,500 miles on it.

[Guest oldmobile1]

I purchased my 1950 88 fast back from original owner nov of 1996 with 36,326 original miles. was parked in 1965 and it runs great. Engine has never had the rocker covers off. I chased this car since I got out of the army in 1968. It took me 28 yeas to get it but it was well worth the wait Also bought a 57 Caddy last year with 35,180 miles on it. Once again ran great. Doug

[nickelroadster]

My 1915 model 42 roadster shows 9165 miles on the odometer. Is that correct? I don't know. I have only owned it about two years and that leaves ninety years that I can't really say for sure what was going on with it. It has at least original style if not original brake shoes that look almost brand new. The brake drums show no wear. The wiring also looks to be original with the exception of the plug wires. The battery cables look exactly like the ones shown in the parts manual. There was never any rust and nowhere is there any evidence of any kind of wreck damage. All in all it appears to be possible that the mileage shown is pretty close to actual although there is no concrete proof.

[Guest Bob Kerr]

There was a car at the RE Olds museum in Lansing from the late 20s that had bullet holes in the drivers door that has very low miles, came from Detroit origially (go figure). I know of another late 20s with less than 50k.I found a 67 cutlass 4 dr that had less than 8000 on it but it sat outside under pine trees and was totally shot!It had a 330 2bbl and NO options at all but a radio. Not an Olds, but Dad has a 21 Chevy 490 touring with 10,018 acual miles on it and I know of a 28 Chevy 2 dr sedan with less than 30 miles!! Original owner of that one bought 4 new and gave 3 of them away. One went to his daughter who never learned to drive!, The miles at the time were 28.3 and that was the miles from the dealer to the his garage where it stayed. That car still had the original engine OIL in it! No bull! The old guy would pay Dad to come over to crank the engine by hand until the oil pressure came up and then close the garage back up. He wouldn't let Dad start it. Dad owned a repair shop back then (in the mid 50s) and had a nice original 28 chevy coupe and Dad was the only person The owner would let touch that car. Dad still has the coupe and it has 78,000 on it I think.

[starfireelvis]

The one that immediately comes to mind is Bob Librandi's Ebony Black 1962 Oldsmobile Starfire, which had (the last time I looked, a couple of years back) 11,944 miles on it. I have taken so many pictures of that car since first seeing it at the 100th Anniversary celebration in Lansing in 1997, that Bob has kidded me that he doesn't take pictures of his Olds anymore--"I have them all!", he says. It sure is nice to have an original, factory-correct example like Bob has shared over the years, as it has been an invaluable reference for me in my efforts to make my own Ebony Black '62 Starfire Coupe as correct as his one-of-a-kind Oldsmobile is. Hope everyone forgives me for taking this occasion to publicly thank Bob as one of the fine Oldsmobile folks who has provided the encouragement and inspiration for me in making my Starfire (hopefully) a nice one to enjoy, and perhaps even provide someone else, a reference and inspriation as well.

[rocketraider]

You should have had the dubious pleasure of having to judge that car its first time out, against a cadre of restored Starfires. Bob had decided to put the car in the Starfire classes instead of unrestored, which skewed the whole class and upset several folks who found out some of their "restored" components weren't exactly restored to original. But those folks saw how it was supposed to be and the next year most of them had been corrected.

[Guest 70 Electra]

Hey, can an ol' Buick guy add a couple to the list?

1. There used to be a car museum in Ohio, along I75, just south of Findlay if I remember right. It was a neat curiousity, as they seemed to specialize in low mileage cars.

In this museum was the most beautiful unrestored 1961 Starfire that you could imagine. It was triple beige, and still had the original convertible top with the contrasting band of color above the side windows. This car reportedly had 16,000 original miles, and it certainly looked the part.

The museum closed 5 or more years ago, and the cars all went somewhere. Sure wish I new where that Starfire is located today!

2. Last year (2007) at the Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance, we had a 1966 Toronado with something like 1,300 original miles. It was a NEW car! I mean, it even smelled new inside. Still riding on those special FWD tires that were original factory equipment. No doubt the finest unrestored 66 Toro in the world. BTW, it won the "Most Significant GM Car" award at this prestigious invitational show. (You can see it at www.meadowbrookconcours.org then go to link for 2007 special award winners)

Thanks,

Greg

ps- It ain't an Olds, but you guys might get a kick out of my 11,000 mile unrestored 1960 Buick LeSabre convertible. Check it out at www.The1960Buick.com

[cruisin55]

My '55 Super 88 Holiday Has Only 44,000 On It And Is All Documented. I'm The 4th Owner since 1955 And I Drive It About 1500 Miles Per Year. Larry

[Guest bluRAYwhale]

Way back in 1978, when I sold my 69 Toronado to my brother (big mistake)

I was getting 7mpg on a good day. It was a 455-4, 400hp I think?

However when I drove to Florida with the cruise control on at a steady 55mph, I got 17-18mpg. I was amazed!

On second thought, my brother inherited all the rust problems. The rear quarters were rusted through around the FULL wheel arch, even when I bought it in 1975.

Oh, did you mean odometer mileage or gas mileage....Sorry.

I,ve seen Oldmobiles with very few miles on them. Like '76 Brougham's that sat on dealer show-room floors with like 11 miles on the odo. And bunchs of them with like 3-4 thousand. Yep, that 400 H.P. rating was correct, I pulled the carb. off a '75 Toranodo and put it on my '76 Brougham, the carb guy says it's worth an extra 20HP over the 98/88/F85 one. Once those"barges" got going they did get OK fuel economy, and all Olds. are barges, even the "A" bodies weighed 4000#'s. The Olds. V-8 had flat combustion chambers and they just changed valve size/cam grind to do what they wanted it to do. This is why Olds. aint "muscle cars". and paying fourty grand for one is absurd. Anyone who's owned 98/88/Cutlass's know that if Olds wanted a bigger/smaller one the just increased/decreased the drivers-side dimensions, great idea, lots of parts interchange and it keeps the Chevy/Chrysler guys from running-up the price. I'm glad GM introduced the Camaro in '10, for 27 grand it will outperform any Camaro/Corvette/Chevelle/'Cuda/Mustang/Cougar, now maybe the price will get back to "normal"... and people will again see that 302/454/427/440's with ginormous valves stink for street use.

[Guest bluRAYwhale]

Not an Olds, but I have a 1969 Jeep M715 (Military 5/4 ton Pick-up) with 13K miles. With 5/4 ton springs and 5.88 gears, it's surprising it has THAT MANY miles

Will a '73-'76 455 fit in there? All olds. should have a 455, even cars that aren't. I care not for orginality, have fun, keep it legal...and get a 4 bbl. Olds. in it somehow!

[Guest bluRAYwhale]

My 69 Delta 88 Hardtop has 31,000 miles on it.

WOW!, nice '69 Delta. I saw a '70 at the local salvage yard that still had the T-3 headlights in it, and they worked. I got them along with some other electrical stuff(distrb., regltr., coil, wiring). The car had 80,000 mi. on it, stuff's yours if you want it.

[Guest dcline]

I found a '37 Buick Special here in ND that my Dad ended up buying .....it has 36,600 original (one-family) miles. It runs great too. It's headed to his house in NM in just a few weeks and he can't wait to see it and get start on a semi-resto.

[msmazcol]

My 69 442 had under 48,000 original miles on it when I purchased it from the original owner in 1990. It still has only 52,000 showing on the clock.

The car still maintains it's factory paint, interior, and driveline. It is one of the least molested one's I've ever seen.

Planning on bringing it to the 75th.

[Guest JeffreyAlman]

this 75 88 conv has like 530 miles I think

http://www.1975oldsmobileconvertible.com/index.html

[Guest JeffreyAlman]

this gentleman claims to have a 78 Toronado with thirteen miles on it

Pimping Out a Low Mileage Toronado - ClassicOldsmobile.com

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[Guest fmbjogger]

75 Delta Royale - 38,000

[Guest mortsciguy]

My 64' Starfire Convert. has just over 48,000 miles since new. Except for an exterior repaint 12 years ago, all original.

Kelly

[Steve Moskowitz]

FMB, I own the same car in the same color combination. Has 19,000 on it but 17,000 when I got it a few years ago. I had to add a set of correct wire wheels on it though. Love the fact it has a 455!