Video Brochure | The 1984 Oldsmobiles
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- čas přidán 8. 08. 2020
- This is a video brochure of the 1984 Oldsmobile lineup. Rest assured, more Oldsmobile goodness to come. I'm a huge fan of the Cutlass Ciera and Cutlass Cruiser, so expect a Car Tale or two featuring this amazing brand... that should never have departed this earth.
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Ah, the eighties, Oldsmobile was the car everyone wanted to drive, & the full size cars were their most luxurious best. I love the clip of the Firenza backwards, nice touch
Yes there was. 1984 was the year I landed my first tech job at a factory store and it was the Oldsmobile store. Brought back lots of memories Tofer and for that, I thank you. Love your channel.
A suggestion for a future video: The Mercury line-up for 1986. I loved their TV ads!
Good idea. My grandparents had an '86 Grand Marquise. Was a great car!
Great 👍 video ! These cars always has a special place in my heart growing up back in the 80s .
The Ninety Eight Regency was a terrific car in its day, so comfortable.
My dad's boss had one and I completely agree.
I had an 84 Delta 88 Royal Brougham ... “Big Red”. It was a gutless wonder, but I absolutely loved it.
Yes, the 98 Regency Brougham was very comfortable and when it wasn’t having any issues, the diesel was very efficient.
The Regency came out in 1972. I still prefer the pillored LS hard tops of the 1965 -1970 98 models.
My 1st car was an 81 seafoam green Olds Cutlass Supreme. I remember going to the dealer as a kid with my dad who bought a brand new 82 Cutlass Supreme. Brown w/ tan pinstripe & tan landau top.
Hello from the Motor City Tofer! Great work as usual.
Oldsmobile is all my mom would ever drive until Chrysler came out with the minivan
I had forgotten the "Special Feel In An Oldsmobile" song but it came right back so I could sing along. Spectacular job as always!
That jingle has been stuck in my head ever since I worked to process and enhance the rather awful original cassette recording.
It’s one I always sing along to so happy to see I’m not the only one that sings along with it
So did i
It’s the special feel you get when you’re running for your life from the angry Native American spirits haunting your suburban home!
Only 5300 of those Omega Brougham Coupes built. Sadly, few survive. My grandad had an 84 Regency Ninety Eight. Like riding around in a Lazyboy. It was Silver with a Dark Gray Vinyl top. These videos are top shelf all the way. Many thanks.
Long live Oldsmobile a brand that is gone not forgotten. I sure miss this brand along with Pontiac. Oldsmobile and Buick had it going on back in the 80s and 90s love the Delta 88, Cutlass Supreme/Ciera sedans too.
Cool stuff I can remember growing up in the 80's and my dad Nick taking my younger brother Chris and I to every car show in Toronto and me and my Chris (my brother) would run around to all the car manufacturers booths and get all of the paperwork that they have LoL
Naturally one parks their 1984 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Brougham Coupe in the horse pasture. Real horsepower show down about to happen.
Those flowers 💐 they are awesome
Nice video. Oldsmobile sold 1M cars annually until or around 1986. Sales took a nosedive when its B bodies and RWD Cutlass bowed out. Olds had to depend on the Ciera to carry the sales mantle until it too bowed out after 1996. Olds was finished after failed attempts to rejuvenate sales with Intrigue and Alero.
While I own an impeccably restored 1967 Mustang, one car I'd like to have back from my past is my 1984 Firenza hatchback. Fun to drive with a 5-speed, got great gas mileage and the 1.8 liter from GM of Brazil was a much better engine than the 2.0 from Chevy (I think). Thanks for bringing back memories!
Nicely done. Thank you. I never realized how many toppings one could put on plain white bread, Oldsmobile did though! So many trim levels! One car that has always stood out to me is the Delta 88 sedan. I don’t know why, but I’ve always loved the look of them... more so than the LeSabre, Caprice/Parisienne. In my late teens, (1988 or so) working in a car wash, this one particular’84 Delta 88 would come in: white with maroon interior, maroon vinyl top, wire wheel covers and a power glass sunroof! It had a dignified presence, yet the sunroof gave it a sporty flair. Simply gorgeous. It didn’t strike me as an old man’s car at all. I would happily drive that car today. Of course, I am the age now that would have been the target demographic for that car back then.
Very nice, I miss Old's, too wish they were still made 😀
Looove😍 that PLUSH velour, whitewall tyres and fake spoke hubcaps etc etc.
"Yes there was" a special feel in an Oldsmobile............
I love what you do with the light and shading of the Ninety-Eight at 3:46. So nice.
Loved our Cutlass Ciera :)
Was definitely thinking of you guys and that Blue Cutlass as I made this. Love and miss ya'll! 😊
@@TofersCarTales love and miss you, chris.
Would i ever love to find a Firenza...in any condition. Thank you o great one master of the montage! Splendid work...as always!
I miss my mom’s fully loaded, wood-panel, Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser, with an aftermarket sunroof.
She traded it in for a brand new ‘90 Ford Escort wagon that had no options; not even a tape deck! I was 6 years old.
That was the first ever grudge I ever held against my mom. She told me years later, that she regretted doing that because the Escort was an uncool, underpowered, piece of junk.
I've known someone who has owned about half of those cars in my childhood, always love a cutlass, grandpa had one grandma had a tornado the other grandparents had a 98 neighbors had a custom cruiser wagon and grandpa traded in the cutlass supreme for a cutlass Sierra a little later
I enjoyed this video. I appreciated the effort and I think it was great. The video footage was interesting. You are right.. Oldsmobile should still be here. I own two Oldsmobiles: a 1996 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight and a 1992 Oldsmobile Toronado.
I absolutely love the intro music and graphics, also used in the 1970 Chrysler video. I hope you use that more in the future.
Thanks so much! I use this intro for my Video Brochure series where I clean up old automotive brochures and add music and relevant visuals. I'm working on a '72 Cadillac Video Brochure. Should post this weekend.
I can't wait!
Wonderfully done again
I know the video covered 1984 but many of the great models were. Recognized a great tribute to them and the brand once again so sad to see what “GM” has become
Great video thank you.
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That commercial omg toM Bradford!
incredible cars 98 omega toronado 88 nice vehicles.
Well done! I'd forgotten how many varieties of Firenzas and Omegas there were.
Same here! So much variety back then. Thanks for watching.
They had sedan, coupe, and station wagon versions of most of the cars, plus all the trim levels. Not to mention Brougham editions of almost everything. My uncle had an Eighty-Eight from that generation.
I longed for a red Firenza hatchback back in 1984. Too bad I couldn't afford one back then. And I lived not too far from an Oldsmobile dealer! I wish I had gotten at least one of their brochures, so I could at least dream!
What a very regal looking bunch of cars especially the big ones.
Agree. Nothing like them on today's roads.
@@TofersCarTales Sadly.
To me olds was a comfortable and reliable car. Used all the tried and true components but it wasn’t “cool”. I got an 83 or so toranado as a punishment for exploding the transmission on my 87 Monte Carlo SS also while the engine was being replaced in my fiero.. ( I was a dumb kid) but little did my dad know I fell in love with that car. Very comfortable and the 307 sounded good but was slow. Lost that thing to cash for clunkers.. sad time in America
Good job Tofer...!!! 👍🏻
Thanks so much and thanks for watching! 😊
GM should bring back Oldsmobile as a division that makes electric crossovers and SUVs
Totally agree.
No way, the look of a crossover could never look and feel as elegant as and olds should in my opinion
NOOO LET THE OLDSMOBILE NAME REST IN PIECES now Pontiac as General motors’s Performance division kind of like now Toyota has the TRD division or now dodge has has Mopar maybe but let Oldsmobile Rest In Peace same thing with Saturn let that name rest to
General Motors should have kept the Oldsmobile division and given it a new name: Aurora. You know, like Fiat Chrysler did with Dodge Truck division and changed it to Ram.
That's GM's plan for Cadillac now, electric crossovers i.e. the 2022 Lyriq
From the anaesthetised women in the collection of Oldsmobile brochures, to the clever use of footage from Poltergeist (amongst other source material), your tongue was firmly in your cheek with this one Sir - loved it!
Thanks, yeah this one was a lot of fun. 😊
*The only ones I liked (still do) is the Cutlass (in any form, of course the Supreme and Hurst/Olds are super - all being G-bodies), the Toronado (seeing that it's like a cheaper Cadillac ElDorado), and the 98 Regency (much like another Cadillac). They weren't fast anymore, but they sure rode nice. Strange video, beginning with someone backing up into the ocean with their new Olds. Great video, as always!*
For me, Oldsmobile's hay day was the mid 50s to the early 70s. It took GM many decades to gain the design skills to incorporate those shock absorbing bumpers into a design that didn't awkward. I suppose material options were the big game changers. The 1966 to 1968 models were the pinnacle of Oldsmobile designs imo...particularly the Delta 88 and pillored 98 Luxury Sedans. These days it's just not that exciting when the new models come out. Very few new cars turn my head now.
Ah yes the days of the iron duke 2.5l
Regarding the Vista Cruiser wagon...
"This was a new car Riggs!"
"Well it still is"
Priceless 😂
Excellent as usual. I wish there was a Tofer tv channel for Sundays instead of MT.
Oh no you didn’t use the Freelings!! You are my hero for that!
Let me know if you need any info for your Cutlass Ciera/Cruiser content. I may have it in my collection.
Awesome. Thanks Frank. I'll let you know.
The 1984 Ninety-Eight Regency coupe photo at 4:06 is the very same photo used in the 1983 brochure. It’s even a Diesel.
Im in uk.... man firenza coupe reminds me of a bigger honda crx lol
Was the word on the street at the time true? Did you actually "get that special feel in an Oldsmobile"?
Also at 11:52 it looks like Patrick Warburton
VERY well done! Totally captures the mood and excitement of these cars... They were as bad as they looked. Why we didnt just all buy Toyotas ill never know.
Ok this is amazing now can we get Pontiac for 1983 or 1986 as a brochure video series 🤔
Remember seeing the incredible 6000 series all over the place? LE, SE, & the absolutely unforgettable answer to the German competition. The Pontiac 6000 STE. What an incredible car. Absolutely forgotten.
paul tanner my brother has a 1983 Pontiac 6000STE really fun car and has no plans on getting rid of it any time soon
@@georgekostician3229 i bought a 2 tone blue 1983. It was my 2nd car. Lol. That's awesome. If he ever does, you must let me know! Lol. Too cool. My favorite is the 1989
Loved the video. But just saw a glimpse of the Firenza. And didn’t see the Omega at all. I know it was on its last legs.
So glad you enjoyed! The Firenza appears in both brochure and video starting at 1:30 and the Omega at 2:38 Thanks for watching!
@@TofersCarTales oh man thanks for pointing that out. I must have zoned out for a few seconds.
@@bretttimmons2653 Some of the music in this video is a bit on the slow side lol
"Last legs"? "Last wheels" is more like it! (I know "last legs" is an expression - don't mind my attempt at humor!) 😁
That woman at the end of the video look like she was scared shittless, like she got carjacked and kidnapped. But I still gave you the thumbs-up cuz I do like the videos a lot.
That was a clip from the original Poltergeist movie... it featured one of my favorite hero cars, a Custom Cruiser. That's why I featured it in this video. Thanks for watching!
@@TofersCarTales you really do have great videos, I just don't get very many videos from you. I checked the Bell.
Thanks so much. My day job prevents me from producing more videos, but I love doing this and I'm so happy to see people like yourself enjoy the effort.
@@TofersCarTales Your videos must take many hours to edit, in addition to the time it must take to assemble the images and footage, on top of the creativity.
Nice work!
Those compact car Oldsmobiles should've never been in the lineup ; never made. Compact cars were a Chevrolet & Pontiac brand thing. Buick Olds Cadillac had no business making small cars. Midsize & up only.
oldsmobile went to shit when gm replaced the fullsize rwd 98 regency and delta 88 for those fwd thingamabobs
Oldsmobile... your upity aunt or grand mother’s car they want to give you
I had the Delta 88 Brougham Sedan - the transmission was incredibly bad - and it was under powered - 307 was weak.