For Fan Car Friday this week we bring you Dario and his stunning ’71 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. Fan Car Friday is a segment where we want to share with the world the automobiles that our fans have. We have absolutely no affiliation/relationship with the cars, the build or the owners. This post was made with written consent from the owner.
“Back in my senior of high school (1971), all of my friend were driving Oldsmobiles and Buicks and I loved the look of the GM “A” bodies, but at the time I was a diehard Chevy enthusiast. I was always driving a Chevy and just couldn’t pull the trigger. Fast forward 45 years and I got the bug to find that long elusive Oldsmobile. My search began as various auctions, but I could never find the “right” car. Then one day I was told of a unique Cutlass for sale in Texas. I immediately contacted the seller and he gave me the car’s history. He was the original owner and the car was purchased in Illinois in early 1971. He really wanted a 442 but was attracted to the formal roofline of the Cutlass Supreme, so he decided to order the car with a 350/4 barrel, posi traction, dual exhaust, sport console with bucket seats alone with RWL tires and Super Stock III wheels. As he said it was his “wolf in sheep’s” clothing. Just two months after taking delivery of the car, he moved to Texas and the car went with him, initially as his daily driver then regulated as his weekend car. After some considerable soul searching, he decided to sell the car and soon the car was back on its way back to Illinois. I purchased the car with 48,000 miles and just drive it to the many cruise nites we have here. The car garners it’s share of attention due to its unique color and originality. The car is now known as “Ms. Texas”.“
The Oldsmobile Cutlass was a range of automobiles produced by General Motors’ Oldsmobile division between 1961 and 1999. At its introduction, the Cutlass was Oldsmobile’s smallest model; it began as a uni-body compact car, but saw its greatest success as a body-on-frame intermediate.
Introduced as the top trim level in Oldsmobile’s compact F-85 line, the Cutlass evolved into a distinct series of its own, spawning numerous variants, including the formidable 4-4-2 muscle car in 1964, premium Cutlass Supreme in 1966, and outright performance Hurst/Olds in 1968, as well as the Vista Cruiser station wagon.
By the 1980’s, Oldsmobile was using the Cutlass as a sub-marque, with numerous vehicle lines bearing the name simultaneously. These included the Cutlass Calais compact, the midsize Cutlass Ciera, the Cutlass Cruiser station wagon, and top of the line midsize Cutlass Supreme.
The 1971 model shared much of the same exterior sheet metal as the 1970, but with a new hood, grille, and headlight assemblies, as well as new bumpers and taillights. Four new exterior body colors were offered, Viking Blue, Lime Green, Bittersweet, and Saturn Gold.
The famous “Rocket” V8 continued in several different sizes and power options, with both the large 455 and ‘small-block’ 350 available with either 2- or 4-barrel carburetors. This was the last year for the 250 cubic-inch six-cylinder engine, as it had not been a popular offering in Olds intermediates. All engines were now fitted with hardened valve seats, preparing for the upcoming mandate for unleaded gasoline that took effect with the introduction of catalytic converters on 1975 models. The 1971 Olds engines also featured lowered compression ratios and designed to run on regular leaded, low-lead or unleaded gasoline with a research octane rating of 91 or higher (equivalent to 87 octane by today’s octane measurements).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsmobile_Cutlass
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Hi Dario, I had the ‘Exact’ same vehicle! I only have 1 4″x 6″ colour photo of it. I would like to photocopy & enlarge it and I could mail it to you, if you want. I don’t have any digital photos of it. Some of the specifics and details I don’t know, but I know the original history of it for sure. It was bought by my friends father-Ross Weber in September of 1970 at a dealership in Toronto, most likely in North York (I’m looking into that) In August of 1977 he sold it to my friend, his son Ross Weber Jr. we were 18 at the time. Not sure of the mileage at that time, but it was low. Then in August of 1980 Ross Jr. sold it to me for $2,500, not sure of original price but a steal at that time. It had 72,000 original miles (definitely not rolled over like speedo’s would do at that time) however he had the speedo cable disconnected at the tranny for 2 years, but hooked it up the day he sold it to me. I rolled over the speedo once & racked up another 95,000 miles! When I saw the photos in ‘Fan Car Friday’ it was as if I was looking at my exact same old car. You would probably agree if I mail you this photo. The things the same are as follows: exact same exterior paint colour and interior trim, same BGF RWL Goodrich tires P245x60,R14’s, same ‘Halo’ vinyl top, buckets, centre console with lid, 2 sets of seat belts-one lap belt & 1 shoulder belt tucked up above the the door openings and 2 female ends coming out near the console. Now the differences: mine only had a chrome drivers mirror with remote toggle on the door trim panel-I worked at a Pontiac/Buick dealership at the time in Scarborough, Toronto and the parts dept ran the V.I.N. several times to be sure and there was no passenger mirror available for that year, I see that yours has 2 painted ‘sport mirrors’, are they from a different year or model? Mine was a single exhaust but converted to duals by Ross Jr. he added a separate tranny cooler and Hearst shift kit to the 350 turbomatic trans. I didn’t have ‘air’ or ‘posi’ but other than that I swear that they are twins! The 1st 7 digits of my V.I.N was 342571M I don’t know the last 6 digits (serial number) However I owned it for 13 years and sold it at a car auction in Barrie Ont in August of 1993 to a man named Gordon Leece who owned a carpet business in Bracebridge Ont. I just looked up that business & Gordon Leece passed away in 2016, but he has a son-Gordon Jr. who still lives in Bracebridge, so I’m trying to contact him & see if he still owns it. It was a father & son team I sold it to and I drove it home for them and wow what a surprise! He had a beautiful, large workshop with a carpeted floor! AND he had a 1970 & 1972 Cutlass Supremes, both fully restored or mint original-I don’t remember for sure. But they were so happy that now they had all 3 years in a row of the same 2 door hardtop with 350’s, the 72 had the same vinyl top and the 70 was a ‘rag-top’ Bye for now, I hope I didn’t bore you. Douglas Beard, Whistler, BC Cell – 604-966-6481
I had a 67 Cutlass this 71 is a classic congrats on this beauty
Dario, great car and Oldsmobile stats. Back in the day I had my Chevelle and most of my friends, after Detroit stopped making high performance cars, purchased Olds Cuttlas’ because of their beautiful style. In 1997 I needed a new go to work car and purchased a 1993 Cutlass Supreme International. This car had every option imaginal, from ‘heads up instrumentation’ to climate control. I loved that car. Best of luck with yours.
My first car was a 1968 Olds Cutlass Supreme from the original owner. Special ordered 350CI/310hp 3.73 LSD. Awesome car with 72k mile when I bought it for $250 bucks. Can’t find them like that anymore.