What's Wrong With This Picture: Vista Bruiser Edition
March 8th, 2010 11:11 AM
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As tipster starbird80 notes, “you see the strangest things on eBay!” But a Vista Cruiser Coupe (or is that a shooting brake)? Surely not…
Strangely, the $5,000 reserve was not met… meaning it might not be too late to make this piece of history/homemade hack-job yours.
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@Starbird, There were a few factory 455 W30 Vista cruisers. Don't remember how many, but I think it was less than 10. But, they really did make them.
In 1970, the Cutlass platform came in THREE wheelbases. All coupes has a 112 inch wheelbase. For sedans, it was 116, and the Vista Cruiser wagon stretched all the way to 121 inches, which was actually two inches longer than the full size Chevy wagon wheelbase of that year. The extra length was necessary on the Vista Cruiser to permit a front-facing third seat, to take maximum advantage of the Vista windows. It also permitted Olds to market the VC as almost equivalent to a full sized wagon, since there was no wagon in the 88/98 line at the time. I can't say for sure what wheelbase this job has, but it could be the coupe wheelbase, and if so that would explain the extreme awkwardness of line, and would also mean the three rows of seats are all jammed up against each other, which is sort of what it looks like in the last photo on the eBay listing. Definitely the answer to a question nobody asked.