• Year of manufacture 
    1966
  • Car type 
    Other
  • Lot number 
    157
  • Reference number 
    SM23_p0069
  • Condition 
    Used
  • Location
    Switzerland
  • Exterior colour 
    Other

Description

  • Offered from The Iseli Collection
  • The first US-produced, front-wheel-drive automobile since the 1936 Cord
  • Crowned Car of The Year by Motor Trend in 1966 and deemed “symbolic of a resurgence of imaginative engineering and tasteful styling in the US auto industry”
  • Powered by a 425 cu-in (7.0-litre) V-8 mated to a three-speed column-shift automatic gearbox
  • Subject to engine rebuild work during 2013 and 2014
  • Retains its original 1966 purchase invoice, fulfilled by Luther Coggin Oldsmobile Co. of Birmingham, Alabama
  • Remained in the United States from new until export to Switzerland in 2010

To view this car and others currently consigned to this auction, please visit the RM website at rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/sm23.


RM Sotheby's
5 Heron Square
Richmond
TW9 1EL
United Kingdom
Contact Person Kontaktperson
Title 
Mr
First name 
Augustin
Last name 
Sabatie-Garat

Phone 
+44-2078517070