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JST
06-22-2005, 08:44 AM
http://www.seriouswheels.com/top-1966-Oldsmobile-Toronado-Jay-Leno.htm

It's been in R/T, but I just saw a show on TLC or something last night about its creation that reminded me of the car.

I've always loved the Toronado, and the Riviera of the same era. The powerplant/chassis combo is over the top, but oh so cool. There aren't many cars I'd drive in slushbox form, but this is one of them.

I'd like to have Leno's money.
FC
06-22-2005, 09:02 AM
I'd like to have Leno's money.

That I do want. The car? I'll pass.
clyde
06-22-2005, 09:09 AM
I'm not so wild about that generation E Body. But, if there was a car that I didn't buy that I wish I had when I had the chance, it was a super cherry recently restored 1965 Riviera back in 1995. The car was flat out amazing and the price was right. I was living in an apartment with no garage and since the car would have been my daily driver I knew that it wouldn't stay so nice for long. I bought the Q45 instead.

http://www.buickstreet.com/images/ad-65rivierags.jpg
blee
06-22-2005, 09:09 AM
I'm actually more partial to the Riviera of the same vintage. Yummy.
blee
06-22-2005, 09:13 AM
When I read the copy of that ad, I keep thinking about My Uncle Vinny.
SCA
06-22-2005, 09:52 AM
I watched that a few months ago. Pretty cool! :thumbup:
elbert
06-22-2005, 10:08 AM
I like his Tankcar more
Jason C
06-22-2005, 01:52 PM
I like his Tankcar more

I'd rather have his McLarenF1/CarreraGT/FordGT.
FC
06-22-2005, 01:59 PM
I like his Tankcar more

I'd rather have his McLarenF1/CarreraGT/FordGT.

Werd.
elbert
06-22-2005, 08:45 PM
I like his Tankcar more

I'd rather have his McLarenF1/CarreraGT/FordGT.

You can buy those cars off the shelf. You won't be seeing the Tankcar or a rwd '66 Toronado anywhere else.
SCA
06-22-2005, 10:28 PM
I like his Tankcar more

I'd rather have his McLarenF1/CarreraGT/FordGT.

He also got the 1st Mercedes-Benz SLR
Sharp11
06-24-2005, 10:47 AM
I've always loved the Toronado, and the Riviera of the same era. .

My uncle had a front drive 1967 Eldorado (the Toronado's twin) the year it came out. I went with him and my dad to the 1967 NYC car show in that car, I recall sitting in the back seat and looking out at all the high rise apartment buildings on the west side......it was all so NYC circa 1967, the car, the scooped and space-age interior, the manhattan skyline.....it's a great memory.

Ed