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It's odd, MOST cars, I prefer 2-door over 4, when offered..... tho there are several exceptions... one of them being the 2 door version of these very cars.... I just cannot get used to the styling at all, same goes for my '89 Olds Delta 88. Another example would be the Jeep Cherokee.... just don't look right in 2-door.... same with the Trooper RS... they are sort of the little diamond in the rough for us Isuzu folks due to their very short wheelbase and 4.77 gears... but I just don't like the way they look... too stubby. There are others as well.
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Otherwise, if you like the idea of a full sized luxury sedan powered by the 3800, try a 91-96 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight. It's basically the same car as a Park Ave Ultra, but just with a different interior and exterior. The design is....polarizing to say the least. Some, myself included, like it, others hate it. It's definitely different.
Here's a 1993 Ninety Eight Touring Sedan; Oldsmobile's version of the Ultra Park Avenue. These could get the supercharged 3800, but they all had the full analog guage cluster, bucket seats, floor shift & console, blackout trim, performance suspension and performance final drive ratio. It's sorta like the DeVille Concours, except like $8,000 cheaper when new. The Touring Sedans are very rare though, most Ninety Eights were your basic american luxury sedan....six passenger, column shift, digital dash, etc etc. Nice cars though, much rarer than the Park Avenues, and certainly undervalued.
I REALLY like that car...and I've never seen a Touring version, only the grandma wire hubcapped ones.
You know another Olds of the late 90's era I really like, again in "sport" form, but are a bit more common?
The LSS, particularly the newest one from '96-99:
Not that I'm a super huge fan of that platform or era, but I had a customer with a beige/tan '99 non-supercharged and enjoyed driving it. It wasn't as boaty as a regular Eighty-Eight but still oddly yacht mixed with touring, had great space, and the regular 3.8L was it's usual full of grunt self. Moreso, like the combo of cleaned up trim, buckets/console, and the wheels.
But that Ninety-Eight Touring...hmm...now another oddball of oddballs to keep a lookout for...
Derek, I think I've seen like two or three 1991-93 Ninety Eight Touring Sedans in person since I got interested in them three years ago. They're very, very rare.
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Derek, I think I've seen like two or three 1991-93 Ninety Eight Touring Sedans in person since I got interested in them three years ago. They're very, very rare.
Yes, and ooh, oddly enough...out of a search, I just found a silver '93 Touring with 100k and CLOTH in Chicago:
Anything with that kind of a rarity/oddball factor always peaks my interest. That dark blue one on Ebay is a stunner, and one that will be hard to ever replicate again if looking for one.
