Junkyard Gem: 1990 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Regency Brougham Sedan

GM’s Oldsmobile Division made some of the plushest, most heraldic-crest-bedecked, fake-wood-interior land yachts of The Brougham Era, which peaked in about 1981 but still had some strength as late as 1990. Here’s a proper Regency Brougham, spotted not long ago in a Denver self-service wrecking yard. The Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight went through 12 generations between its […]

Junkyard Gem: 1977 Oldsmobile Omega Brougham Coupe

General Motors decided to build Pontiac, Oldsmobile, and Buick versions of the very successful compact Chevrolet Nova before the 1973 energy crisis hit, and that decision looked pretty wise once skyrocketing gasoline prices were added to the already-rampant inflation of the times. The Oldsmobile version of the 1973-1979 Nova was called the Omega, and surviving […]