GM’s Oldsmobile Division was one of the most important station wagon players during the 1960s and 1970s, and car shoppers in the United States could still choose from three sizes of new Olds wagon as late as the middle 1980s. The smallest was the Firenza, sibling to the Chevy Cavalier. The biggest was the Custom Cruiser, built on the same platform as the Chevrolet Caprice. Between those two was a midsize wagon related to the Chevrolet Celebrity: the Cutlass Cruiser. Here’s one of those cars, found in an Oklahoma City wrecking yard recently.
The Cutlass was such a rollicking sales success during the mid-to-late 1970s that Oldsmobile ended up applying the Cutlass name to a bewildering variety of unrelated vehicles later on. Today’s Junkyard Gem was the wagon version of the Cutlass Ciera, while Olds shoppers in 1986 could also buy a rear-wheel-drive Cutlass Supreme with a platform ancestry FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS