We’re not sure it was actually possible to spend more money on a car than you had to spend in order to own the thing you see in the photos above and below. This is a 1984 Stutz Victoria and while it is mechanically a 1984 Oldsmobile 98, the rest of the thing is nearly beyond description. With only seven of the cars ever produced it is amazingly rare and the fact that five of them have lived the thirty years since production (according to the seller of this one) is kind of astounding. We’re thinking that this may be the ultimate case of “rare is not always desirable”, right? The damned thing looks like a movie prop or something and while saying that out loud may be disrespectful, please tell us where we’re wrong. Now the inside of the thing was the height of opulence for 1984 and you can see why in the photos.
You had 24k gold plating over virtually everything and massive and legitimately interesting looking dashboard that houses all kinds of switches and stuff in burled wood. The seats look like the plush Olds stockers of the day but we don’r know if they were modified when the cars were “built” in Italy. We’re not sure they went it Italy at all but it sure is proclaimed everywhere on the thing, including on an engraved plaque that seems to have the names of all the guys who put the car together or something of that sort.
Stutz based their cars on different models over the years but we’re thinking this was their only Olds based variant. Can you imagine shipping a load of 1984 Oldsmobile 98s over to Italy and then giving a firm the plans you had devised for this car with a straight face? The Victoria had a relatively short life span and we believe that these 1984s were some of the last ever built. Apparently many of them were sold to the Saudi royal family back then. The craziest “feature” offered with these cars? A Stutz provided/managed driver service! At least it would be easier to hide in the back seat, right?
Click the link at the bottom of the page for the eBay listing!
I Can See The Brothers In Motown Driving This But It Would Need The Wide Whitewall Tires And The Curb Feelers
Well – ah’m gettin’ down with mah bad self with mah bitches and mah hoes!
All ah need is mah velvet frock coat and mah crocodile heels!
70s pimp-mobile incarnate indeed – after you clean up the layers of barf left by the last 10 people who went to look at the car…
It was the 80s . Yeah pimptastic but F’it, its got way more character than the grey blobs and range rovers the wealthy “look at me” folks that they drive today. Back then they had fough and werent afraid to show it or use it.
Dough not fough!
Want something to throw your LS in? Here you go.
Hell that would be an awesome idea. No one would expect it at all.
Apparently Huggy Bear decided this was too gaudy for him.
apparently you could get really High in the 80s (I don’t remember)
Perfect car for a Dictator. Big trunk for detractors and RPG’s. Plush suspension to soak up all the mortar shell pot holes. All ya need is a gaudy generals uniform from a former Eastern Bloc, some running boards to hold a half dozen 10 year olds jacked on brown brown and handles so they can hold on while aiming their AK’s. Let the good times roll!!!
When the Wagon Queen Corp.(producers of the Family Truckster) wanted to expand their line up beyond wagons, this concept car was designed to compete with the Lincoln Continental and Cadillac.