1978 Oldsmobile Toronado

XS 2 door coupe

403 cubic inch V-8

Automatic

3z57k8m710646

Clear

Gasoline

Audio Player Copyright 2009 Ver2.04 1978 Oldsmobile Toronado XS !!!! 1978 Oldsmobile Toronado XS. Extraordinary and stunning car in a very eye catching color combo you don't see everyday. Of all the cars I've ever owned this particular one has such an impressive traceable history that it will be hard to match. I spent a few hours the other day going through every receipt on this car and made notes of the dates and mileage, whats nice is that every mile on this car is accounted for and therefore the mileage can be guaranteed to be accurate. What a lot of people have forgotten these days is how incredibly easy it was and is for any car prior to approximately 1985 to have the mileage turned back. According to a study done about 10 years ago it was confirmed that about 66 percent of all older cars have had the mileage turned back at one point in their lifetime. What this means is that there are a lot of folks out there who think they own low mileage classics and in fact they do NOT !! Therefore, due diligence is required if you need to prove mileage on these old cars and the only way to do it is with paperwork like this has. That being said, the photos should be enough here to prove the condition of this car is immaculate with everything working correctly to include working A/C that still holds its original r-12 and has never been retrofitted to r-134a. The car needs nothing, you could easily fly in and drive this car to any destination you desire ,, with the utmost pleasure I might add. If you know these toronado XS's then you realize very few of these were made because the XS option was a $2700 option in 1978 which was an extravegent sum of money then and therefore not many were produced. Sticker price on this car in 78 was $13,568 which was also a crazy price back then. It shows when you drive the car. I'd rather drive this car over a new automobile any day of the week. I hope this fine XS goes to home which appreciates a milestone in American technology and pure beauty. One of the finest cars I've ever had the pleasure to own and look at. My name is Michael Stanton 315-725-1966 *** If your interested in buying the car before the end of the auction please call me,, it is for sale locally and could sell at any time. Thank you. Below is some information I found on the XS models : The later years of this generation of Toronado saw new features mostly confined to minor styling tweaks to the grille and trim, although in 1977, the XS and XSR models debuted. Both featured a three-sided, hot wire "bent-glass" rear window (image) and, on the XSR, electric t-tops which slid inwards at the touch of a button. However, as built in prototype form, the XSR had no means of channeling water away from the retractable sections, meaning that the car leaked mercilessly in the rain. No one, it seems, could come up with a workable solution to the problem within the design, so only the single prototype was built ... and that portion of the project quietly died. The XS, which did enter production, was offered with GM's more reliable (and no doubt more leak-resistant) Astroroof sliding sunroof instead. Air conditioning was standard.[15] The running factory "XSR" prototype was documented as "restored" by Collectible Automobile Magazine in the late 1990s.[16] Also for 1977, the 455 cu in (7.5 L) V8 was replaced by a smaller 403 cu in (6.6 L) engine, due mainly to forthcoming government Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards (implemented beginning with the 1978 model year). In addition, the '77 Delta 88 and Ninety-Eight models, formerly the biggest cars in the Oldsmobile stable, were downsized. For two more model years, the Toronado would be the largest Oldsmobile, and, after the mid-sized Cutlass line's downsizing for '78, the Toronado looked hopelessly out of place in the Olds lineup, given the industry-wide shift to smaller cars. This generation was probably helped in the sales race by the radical and controversial "boat-tail" (image) design of the contemporary Buick Riviera, since during this period the Toronado outsold its Buick cousin for the first time. However, the higher-priced Cadillac Eldorado managed, in turn, to outsell the Toronado in most of these years. On Sep-14-12 at 10:31:52 PDT, seller added the following information: On Sep-14-12 at 22:41:31 PDT, seller added the following information: there is a youtube presentation of the car at the very bottom of the page after all the photos have loaded