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The Dark Maple Red Metallic paint may be fading but you can still see the lovely lines that made the Cutlass Ciera Oldsmobile’s best selling car for 14 years. This one was built in March of 1983 and sold to the Verhoff family by Jack Howell Chevrolet-Oldsmobile in Ottawa, Ohio, for the princely sum of $10,818. Base price for the LS Sedan was $8,892. Add to that the 4.3L diesel ($500), four-season air conditioning ($725), body side moldings ($55), accent stripe ($42), rocker panel moldings ($56), 14-inch radial tire upgrade ($36.60) and block heater ($42). There was a credit of $56 for a radio delete.

Diesel History Retrospective: Oldsmobile's Other Diesel

Say “Oldsmobile diesel” and most people think of the trouble-prone 350-cid (5.7 liter) V-8 that plagued GM’s full-size cars in the late 1970s and early […]