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Hemmings Motor News - Hemmings Find of the Day: 1977 Oldsmobile

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We’re not trying to favor any one decade here – really. I just happened to stumble across this particular Cutlass Supreme while looking to see how many Eighties G-body variations are currently on the market on our website. With an asking price of $8,440, here’s the seller’s description:

1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme with 37,581 actual miles. Powered by the original 350 c.i. Oldsmobile V-8 engine coupled to the original three-speed automatic transmission. Finished in Metallic Brown with an excellent Tan vinyl interior. Equipped with air conditioning, tilt wheel, power brakes, power steering, factory radio with a CD player that is discretely mounted in the glove box. It is also equipped with factory rally wheels, Tan half vinyl top, white wall tires, manual windows, manual locks, sport mirrors and factory exhaust … Mechanically sound with no known issues to date. The brown paint looks great for its age but does show some very minor blemishes. All in all this is a solid rust free Cutlass that will take you back to the look and feel of the late 70’s.

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Hemmings Motor News - A new flowering

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Colin Chapman has been gone for nearly 30 years, and the business is now under Malaysian ownership (Proton). But the Lotus Cars of today produces some fascinating stuff, led by the Evora and the 2-Eleven. Lotus is making moves to recoup its racing history, too. A reconstituted Team Lotus has joined Formula 1. Lotus and another venerable name, Cosworth, are likewise taking part in the 2010 IZOD IndyCar series.

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In the case of IndyCar, which uses spec Dallara chassis, Honda V-8 engines and Firestone tires, Lotus’s involvement in IndyCar is largely symbolic, termed a “technical and commercial partnership” with KV racing technology. The team is owned by businessman Kevin Kalkhoven, who helped broker the IRL-CART truce, and former CART champion Jimmy Vasser. It’s worth remembering, as the Indianapolis Motor Speedway archival photo does, that Lotus forced the most seismic upheaval in American open-wheel history when Chapman brought his Ford-powered Lotus brigade to the Brickyard during the 1960s. The immortal Jim Clark’s 1965 win, the first for a rear-engine car, was one of the most transformative events in all of motorsports.

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