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My parents owned a 1968 Oldsmobile Tornado in deep blue. I was only three years old when they got it but it stayed in our family for many, many years. I sure do miss that car! One of a kind...
I have a 78 I need a motor for it I never drove it I picked it up at the Nashville Tennessee police auction back in 2017 I hope to put it on the road this year
"Sales dropped in 1967 due to the Cadillac Fleetwood"??? Does this channel know anything about cars? The Cadillac competitor to the Toro in 1967 was quite obviously the Eldorado that was based upon the same frame and front wheel drive design.
Agree this channel sends bad info bad grammar and bad pronunciation all the time Latest was the Plymouth Val eye ant I ate some Eye tal yan food in my val eye ant while driving to eye rack If course the Eldo stole tornado sales It was iconic!!!
The 66 is still by far the most beautiful and one of the most beautiful cars GM ever produced. It seems like as the years went on each Toronado got less special
I had a 76. Last year of the 455. Pillow seats. Most comfortable and best riding car I’d ever been in. Like driving your living room couch down the road. Loved that car.
Bought a 1969 Toronado. I was amazed at the 'technology' it had for its time... Front wheel drive. 455 big block. 6 way power seat. Electric windows & locks. LOTS of legroom, front AND back. Power antennae. Speedo was on a drum behind a fixed line on dash glass AND the drum would keep turning past the 140mph drum mark until the zero line was 150mph. Hidden headlights. Great looking grill & body. Very comfortable ride.
The first generation, namely the 1966 and 1967 models, are remembered the most and are the most admired. These wonderful automobiles were the pinnacle for automobile styling of the 20th century in my opinion. They were only rivalled by the 1967 and 1968 Cadillac Eldorado, which was also drop dead gorgeous. Both of these two FWD masterpieces of technology and styling will always be remembered fondly. I have driven both, the 1966 Olds Toronado and a 1968 Cadillac Eldorado. They each had their own distinct personalities, with Eldorado being most definitely more softly sprung than its Oldsmobile cousin. I hope to soon find a 1968 Eldorado in mint condition to purchase and cherish.
My father bought a new 1967 Toronado and he loved it. It was fast and beautiful, and you couldn’t beat the legroom. The front wheel drive did have a lot of torque steer, and if you attempted to take off fast, it would try to rip the steering wheel out of your hands. He lived in Minnesota and the front wheel drive really did give the car amazing traction and drivability in snow, he always drove it daily, and he never got stuck in winter. The downside was that within a few years the car had rusted to the point that the chassis was ruined.
My grandfather owned a couple of them - primarily because of the front wheel drive. His driveway was down a hill to the under-the-house garage and he needed the traction to get up the hill in winter weather. He drove his last one into the 80s, when he upgraded to a Caddy Sedan DeVille.
Very cool ! I always liked these cars as a kid, going back to when i was 9 in '66 but didn't know much about the evolution and specifics. Well done !! What i do remember was reading my Dad's Readers Digest issue in '66 and this car had just tore up Pikes Peak, i believe setting a record. That 'live' shot was probably from that occasion. I dug all the versions but think they got it 'right' the first time. Car was a beast !!! Thanx for the vid !!
I've owned six of the GMC motorhomes that have the 455 or 403 Olds Toronado front wheel drive train. I'm supposed to be getting a '77 Toronado tomorrow. Happy Father's Day to me. Vroom, vroom.
I remember that as an adolescent I was impressed by the “it pulls you rather pushes you around corners”. But I also knew that the later softer suspension ruined the potential. It was a car to show off.
Do the 86. My mom bought one so us 3 boys could have something sports oriented for prom. The sunroof and the radio blew everyone away! Of course I was going against a ,1986 maxima, and everyone still loved the tornado!
I know all about these beautiful luxury cars. In the 70s and 80s my Parents bought 4 new Toronados loaded. That tells you how much they liked em and I was a boy growing up in the 70s and finally 80s. It was grand then. God how I hate the 21 century culture and cars.
you didn't mention that in 1975 they moved to square headlights. that was a big deal at the time as most GM cars were making that change. We had a 73 and we got a 75 specifically for the square headlights
Great video! I'm really enjoying your videos. I know someone that had a 75 Old Toronado, it ride and drove like a cloud. Have you thought about doing a video on the history of the Impala SS?
my moms first Fiance's dad drove a 1975 Toronado and my late maternal grandmother had two Delta 88s in the 70s a 1972 and a 1978 that my mom got her driver's license in in March 1979 then she traded it for a used 1981 Cadillac Coupe Deville then traded that for a used 1984 Buick Skylark
Way, way back in the day, my parents were friends with a GM Engineer in Detroit, and part of his benefits were that he could have any GM car he wanted for "evaluation". So he had a '69 Toronado 455 one of those times and that car was a total marshmallow. Beautiful but incredibly squishy. Perfect for Detroit roads. Why did Detroit make roads out of concrete? You've got me - seems ridiculous in a snow state with salt gravy.
@@PJAvenger Detroit steel? Love a good tank! Especially when it comes with a sofa. The highway act was also called the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act. Which the title gives away that the Army wanted a say in how it was constructed. I-94 also feels like you're on a bombing run through flak too.
I have a pretty😂,67 Deluxe in Aspen green with black cloth. A fantastic car ! Handles and drives beautifully, but my ‘71 GS Riviera boat tail leaves it for dead .
A great idea with sort of strange implementation. I think from day one I felt it looked too heavy with excessive bulk. It really never expressed a sense of being exceptional.
@3:51: "Reassembled" - To have put together what was taken apart. "Resembled" - Something which has taken on a similar appearance to something else. Perhaps early registration and enrollment in English 101 can help! 📙 🚸! Also, what happened to the "Jetaway 707" 9-door custom-built limousine wagon from 1968-1970, the addition of quad rectangular headlights in 1975? The XSR trim with bucket seats, center console with floor shifter, wrap around rear backlite snd electrically powered T-Tops that were guaranteed to leak in 1977, the 1979-1984, 1984-1989 & 1990 - 1992 models and perhaps most significantly, the addition of the "Trofeo" trim in mid-1987, which replaced Toronado altogether before the lineup was dropped without a direct replacement after 1992, but replaced by the Platypus-inspired Aurora sedan in mid 1994 as an early 1995 model? Honestly, you should have called this a look at the "classic" Toronados before GM's downsizing began in 1979. This was a very poor job, hence the well deserved 👎.
I've owned six of the GMC motorhomes that have the 455 or 403 Olds Toronado front wheel drive train. I'm supposed to be getting a '77 Toronado tomorrow. Happy Father's Day to me. Vroom, vroom.
Hey! The Toronado continued into the 90s! I wanted to see that bit as my grandparents bought a 1980 from a friend of theirs when I was younger. Not an exceptional car, but a comfy road cruiser that still retained some semblance of GM luxury and quality before they decided to run everything into the ground by 1990.
What no mention at all of the fish tank, wrap-around rear glass on the 77? It was the single most bizarre styling feature of the entire run of full sized Toronado's. It's insane how they simply HAD to change it every year, and in almost every case made the original of these two body styles worse each revision. The original 66 did indeed start it all and was absolutely stunning. Fun story: I went test drive a private sale 67 and the guy SERIOUSLY asked if I "knew how to drive a Front Wheel Drive car" (when I arrived with y girlfriend's mom's Eldorado) - he further said he didn't let his wife drive it because she didn't know "how to drive a front wheel drive car" I thought he was screwing with me, but he was dead serious. WTF? Other than when you got front wheel spin, the steering was so heavily boosted on this and the Eldo's, other than driving it like the Pikes Peak racer in the beginning of this video it was completely transparent and drove like any other land yacht of the time.
I remember when front wheel drive first became the norm in cars (late 70s) and driving on ice & snow was a new learning experience for everyone. There was no "drifting" to power your way through an icy curve. If the traction broke on the front wheel drive tires, you basically followed the momentum into whatever was waiting on the outside of the curve.
My neighbors bought a 71 Toronado, I thought that the flat floor & the brake lights under the rear window were so cool!!! They kept it for years then traded it in for a 77 Seville!!! Thanks for sharing another exciting video!!! 👍👍🙂
The main thing I love about the Tornado was the Unitized Power Package. How the gears of the transmission run along the left lower side of the engine, and a belt hooks to the shift bar from the crankshaft. I might have that wrong, but I'd like to either see it return or use it for one of my designs.
The Toronado was fantastic and ahead of its time. I think it was phased out because GM felt threatened that it would outdo Cadillac . But if you found one today, run with your checkbook ! It won't be around long !
My grandmother owned two, a 1972 white with black vinyl full top and a maroon 1976 Brougham with white vinyl half top. I remember riding in the 76 as a little boy being born a bicentennial baby riding in a bicentennial car! As my grandfather would say, no car rode like the Toronado.
It's front wheel drivetrain was it's most innovated feature, along with it's unique chassis,at least until 1979, these types of chassis are not suitable for rear independent suspension which was not easy to manage, too fragile and flimsy.
I grew up with two... My dad got a new '67 in that peacock blue/turquoise color... a year later, he bought my mom a used '66 in a similar turquoise green color.
Fantastic! I enjoyed the video and that was effort put in this video. I smiled watching the video. Thank you for the effort and the video. That was some great footage and photos as well. Great information. It would have been nice to see Toronado thorough until its end in 1992. The video again was fantastic and appreciated.
During the "senior compact" program, which included the front-engine-rear-transmision Pontiac Tempest and the first turbocharged engine offered in a production car, GM built a prototype FWD Olds F85 using the "UPP" wraparound-transmission layout that was licensed by Ford. When GM gave up on those innovative models, they had nothing to do with that FWD powertrain, so they massively upsized it and put it in a novelty coup, which could sell at enough of a premium to justify the FWD development costs, hence, the Toronado. While it didn't change the automotive landscape the way the Mini, Civic and Golf did, it gave GM valuable FWD experience which made it easier for GM to be the first domestic automaker to offer "compact" FWD cars in 1979. In fact, the unusual drive chain from the Toronado could also be found in the X-body-cars and FWD A-body-cars of the '80s and '90s.
1:47 I think you meant to say "the introduction of the 1967 Fleetwood Eldorado", as it was called in the early years. The 1967 Fleetwood Brougham and Fleetwood 60-Special were 6-adult-passenger, 2-bodies-in-the-trunk executive cars and not competitors to the Toronado, while the car shown looks to be a Sedan Deville, also no competitor to the Toronado.
Some early 70s Toronados had air bags. Also those year models had brake lights between the deck lid and the bottom of the rear window. Those cars were rear ended less so that’s why we now have the 3rd center brake light
I had a '73 Brougham, green/green with white vinyl top, in the early '90s. Got her from the original owner's son for $950 with around 36,000 miles. Still my favorite car I've ever owned.
Olds was first with front drive in 66. Was first with this kind of sporty personal luxury car in front wheel drive. Cadillac followed suit with the Olds front drive placed in their Eldorado the following year.
The 71-78 Toronados supposedly had a habit of the back of the car coming around on slippery roads if you hit the brakes too hard. I had a 76 (probably the heaviest of all them) and drove it through all kinds of snow and ice and never had that issue. Had it out in the northeast Blizzard of 93. That thing was awesome in the snow. Loved and still miss that car to this day.
My father had 2 1966 Toronados! Burgandy wine color with matching cloth and vinyl interior! Both were same color, almost twins except for à few options different! Sorry don't have and photos but, remember riding in it and thé power of the 425 cid V8 engine! Thanks for video! Take care.
