You’ll have to excuse the fact that I took a couple days off of what has turned into a Soviet/US Cold War style situation here at BangShift regarding station wagons and how wrong Bryan McTaggart is about most stuff. See he started throwing barbs at me and then I have pretty much brought flame throwing heat since that point, dropping sweet wagon knowledge on you left, right, and center. I gave the kid a couple days to really swing for the fences and the only thing I felt was a breeze from him whiffing mightily. Today I’m back and this 1973 Olds Ninety Eight Custom Cruiser is the salvo that I am firing to get the madness started back up again. The car is massive, it has 57,000 miles on it and frankly the large barge is perfect in virtually every way possible. Yes, the factory 455 wasn’t a killer in 1973 but it does have a 455 and 4bbl to motivate it down the road.
Garage kept for its whole life and “refreshed” at some point according to the ad, we’re going to say that this is the nicest 1973 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight Custom Cruiser wagon that exists in the world today unless GM has one hermetically sealed in a building somewhere. The interior, woodgrain, and paint seem to have been applied yesterday. While there are no under hood photos yet we’re pretty sure that it will not be a greaseball engine compartment with some poorly routed screaming yellow spark plug wires laying on the exhaust manifolds. Frankly, there will probably be so little grime under there that dinner could be served on the platter sized air cleaner lid. Boom, Mctaggart….BOOM!
The seller has the whole ownership history of the car (two owners) the location history of where it has “lived” over the last four decades, and he probably has the maintenance records and a list of the eight people who ever sat in the back seat as well. Details help sell cars and this guy has them in spades. The current bid on the car is $8,600 bucks and the reserve has not been met. There’s no “buy it now” price but we’d have to imagine that the seller wants somewhere near $20k for this car. Not that we really think it is worth that much but this one is SO good you may as well see if you can land someone with big cash who can’t live without it, right?
SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTOS AND THEN HIT THE LINK TO SEE THE EBAY AD FOR THIS STUNNING 1973 OLDS MOBILE NINETY EIGHT CUSTOM CRUISER WAGON –
Whorehouse red inside and out.
Just like my Olds. In the face of how everything is gray inside and out, red is nothing to turn your nose up to.
I love the spaceship cockpit control cluster.
There’s nothing that says “style” more than woodgrained fender skirts!
Awesome barge. A load of old school freon in the A/C and a tankfull of todays swill and it’s 85 on the highway all day LONG!
You hit him square in the gut Brian. Cant imagine what hes coming back at you with.
That’s not quite whorehouse red, that’s a darker, maple red.