1981 Oldsmobile Cutlass Cruiser Brougham Review - Retro Family Transport!
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1981. The year i was born. Mu first car was a 1978 malibu station wagon. Same body, different face.. 305 V8. My FAVORITE car.. EVER
Make wagons great again!! Who agrees with me!!!
My grandmother had an '81 Olds Cutlass Supreme. Floaty indeed.
Weld wheels that are worth more than the car LOL.
Rock salt stored on the car?!? 😭
My 1991 Chevy Caprice Wagon is waiting for you…
Memory sparked! In 1981, I was about ten years old and rode in the rear cargo area of a nearly identical, brand new, Olds Cutlass Cruiser wagon all the way from Michigan to California due to my dad getting a job transfer. My two older sisters got the rear passenger seats, and my parents rode up front with my dad at the wheel. Windows were rolled up and my parents smoked like chimneys the whole way to sunny California. I remember the ultra-sticky and goopy black adhesive that held the carpet down in the cargo area getting all over my fingers & not coming off.... Of course I was gonna play with it! I was a kid; what else was I supposed to do as rural America passed by outside the window on Interstate 80 for hours on end? Lol. We finally got to California, settled into our new cookie-cutter tract house for a couple of years and my dad decided it was time to trade in the Olds wagon in for a Ford Mustang. My parents left to go Mustang shopping.... The hours slowly went by as I waited at home and peered out the window to see the shiny brand-new pony car roll into the driveway. Finally, as what seemed like eons later, they pulled into the driveway.... and I looked out the window & said to myself.... "What in the hell is this?!?" They ended up buying a brand-new 1984 Ford Tempo?!?!?! The salesman talked my dad into buying the Tempo instead of the Mustang. Sometimes my old man had the common sense of Clark Griswold.
Love this story 😂😂😂😂
What happened to the Tempo??
@@landonbenford8369 It had constant transmission issues and my dad liked it so much that he let it get repo'd. 😄
@@mattkramer4132 I'm sorry to hear that! An ex from high school had its cousin: a 1988 Mercury Topaz black 4 door. I think I miss her car more than I miss her. I'm kidding. No I'm not!😁
I LOVE the clean, crisp lines of this generation of the Cutlass Cruiser & the other A/G-body wagons. Shame about those fixed rear windows. GM SAID that it was to save rear shoulder room, but I don't buy that excuse for a minute, ESPECIALLY since the sedans & wagons had those recesses in both rear doors. Surely, they COULD have put a manual window crank or optional power window switch in there. And those damn bumper-mounted taillights were a rear-ender waiting to happen!!!!
Grew up in one of these. My parents had a brown 78 Cutlass Cruiser. Had it 10 years until it was vandalized. I remember laying in the back on road trips. A few things I remember that I hated: car had all vinyl seats, an AM radio and was a non AC car. Hated, hated, hated it in the summer, especially with those non functioning rear windows. It was like a virtual greenhouse back there, and probably just as hot in the summer.
Is the shatter worry on the back window particular to that survivor's condition or is it a design flaw?
The Chrysler Town & Country was a station wagon before Chrysler made it a minivan
I want it!
Now it's a Voyager and it's their only $40,000 base minivan 😂🤣
You're referring to the Ninth Generation (1982-8) K car wagon. I read somewhere that Tenth Gen. was a Smashing success!! No one'd ever seen a luxury minivan before!!😲🧐
5:02 I am DYIN' on that power friggin' rear vent!! 😂🤣😂🤣
Dude! I owned a 1980 Cutlass Brougham and I Absolutely HATED Those Effing windows (the whole car, actually)!!☹Your a/c better be working 'cuz on a hot day those windows were useless!!😥
woah 3.8 0-to 55 in 16?
rare!
my dad has a diesel wagon on the farm never seen it run sadly
the last rwd oldsmobile is 91-92 custom vista cruiser.
mom used to drive a 85 cutlass cruiser and is identical but a bit smaller and fwd 3.0 v6.
at least my moms had back windows that rolled down.
i love wagons when i would clean the car i would use the electrolux with the power head.
I checked the comments. Children were conceived in the back of that olds wagon.
Cool review.
My father brought a brand new 1978 Buick Century station wagon green with the wood grain package and green vinyl interior. 3.8 V6 3 speed automatic.
We had the car from 1978 until 1990. My dad got rid of it when the transmission failed at 138,000 miles.
It became a work vehicle only for my dad from 1986 until 1990.
In 1986, the family truckster became replaced by a 1986 Chevy Astro CL Van 8 passenger red and silver 4 speed automatic with fuel injected 4.3 V6.
The Buick wagon options only had AM/FM radio, rear window defroster, air conditioning, tilt wheel, power steering and brakes, white wall tires, body side and bumper moldings, exterior wood grain, and full size wheel covers, and roof rack.
So my father was really confused by the Astro.
Watching dad try to use a digital radio with a cassette deck, power windows and locks, how to adjust dual outside mirrors, and how the wiper delay and cruise control worked. 😂
Somehow the Astro Van was loaded out. He had more options he than he ever had from a rim package, running boards, roof rack, ladder, tilt wheel, air conditioning, body side moldings, tinted glass.
I feel your old man. I was 32 when I Finally had my own car with a working a/c system; a 2003 Saturn Ion 3! The 3 was the top of the line model. Only options it didn't have was a $250.00 US Dollar decklid spoiler. I called her My Cadillac!!😎😎
She's screaming for an LS and turbo 400 swap
No! She wants to be kept original 😡
I'm thinking it wouldn't be too hard to drop a Chevy 350 in that thing maybe?
It wouldn't. I owned a 1980 Cutlass and it clearly stated in the owner's manual engine sizes were the 3.8, 4.3, 5.0, and the 5.7 straight from the factory. Yes, back then you could order your Olds with the 4 bbl police engine. And even the 4.3 diesel.
Watching this video makes me miss and regret selling my ‘81 Monte Carlo Landau 😢 if I ever see it I’m buying it back
Man, a wagon with wood paneling & chrome wheels...YES PLEASE!
Isn't that the original bumper/light set?
Owner here:
No the original bumpers were wiped out.
The rear was rotted out, same with the front. Locating a front bumper was a challenge. I drove 3 hours to get that one, the rear was easy, my grandpa had the OG bumper off of his 86 elcamino. The difference is, the cutlass cruiser bumper had impact stripping and bumper guards, they are very similar. The Malibu wagon and elco bumpers had nothing to my knowledge.
It’s “correct” for the car to people who aren’t purists. I preferred it because it gave it a cleaner look.
I came home from the hospital in one of these!! It didn't have the fancy woodgrain, of course. Still one of my favorite all-time wagons. The taillights in the bumper was so unusual to see as a 90s California kid.
I want one. :3
I knew the full sized wagon as an 80's kid. I knew this Olds was pure 80's because of all the fake wood!
Has Zack done a 91 Riviera? I have one with 56k miles
I have not!
I believe we had a ‘79 with red vinyl seats and crank windows.
my old friend from school has the same car since high school. she still drives is all over Long Island dailey.
It is big estate cool but it’s the only cool thing about it. Everything else screams malaise on it
7:50 didnt park that black suv with parking brakes on
It is cool to see this family car used as it should be. Great review!
Outside of the power accessories, it seems too basic to be an Olds.
omg you were born in 97.... I am so old
A real wagon
No plastic fantastic in it
nice wagon.
Cool car look good
awesome
First!!
Love it
Brings back memories as I am almost 59 years old. Grew up with gems like this !
Zack, It is time to bring back wagons and bring back Oldsmobile while we're at it. 🤩
Subaru Outback! The new one’s are pretty decent looking, beefy wagons. I’ve been considering one more and more now that they priced pickups out of my and most people’s budget.
Make wagons great again!!!
Great video and great car.
Unfortunately, those idiots at GM really messed up their lineup in 2024 with inferior engines. Absolute corruption.
Finally, a car that is older than I am on your channel. I was born one year after this car came out 😂
My dad had an 82 buick regal 4 door with those stupid fixed rear windows and those damn wing windows. On a hot day in ~ 1985, I went to open the wing window and it fell out of the door. I was holding outside the car by that little chrome handle (our vent windows weren't powered like this car) while yelling at my mom to stop.
The reasoning behind those fixed rear windows on those cars was that when GM downsized their midsized cars in 1978, they wanted to keep the interior hip room similar to the 1973-77 generation so they put big indents into the rear interior door panels so people could put their elbows there. That left no room for window lift mechanisms.
All of these clones that GM were pushing out were horrible, in this instance this is not a Cutlass Cruiser
They tried to fool the public, and did... a cheap and not very utilitarian vehicle.
Damn im early