Taking a cue from pragmatic Ford color-namers (is there an official term for that?), Oldsmobile called this color “Yellow.” Not Sunshine Yellow or Lemon Chiffon or anything fancy. Just plain ol’ Yellow. This last year of the third-generation 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Brougham Coupe is listed here on eBay in Escondido, California; there is no reserve, and the current bid is $8,200.
What a beautiful car, at least as far as the visual condition goes. The word beautiful is subjective, as we all know – or I hope we all know that – even though some vehicles take a major hit in the comments depending on whether one of us refers to them as being beautiful. I’m way outside the normal field with that, as the vehicles I think are beautiful are seen as ugly oddballs by most readers.
The Lamborghini Miura and Jaguar E-Type convertible are hard to define as “ugly” by most, but then there’s the Comuta-Car and AMC Pacer. I like them all, of course; there are no “ugly” vehicles for me. Yes, even the Pontiac Aztek. The era of big bumpers in the 1970s can hardly be defined as beautiful, but GM at least tried a bit to massage these massive 5-mph bumpers with some curves and details. The trunk compartment looks as clean as can be, and the seller has included a few underside photos. They say this California car has been in California since new, and it sure looks great in the photos. Page 3 of this 1977 Oldsmobile brochure shows the Cutlass Supreme Brougham Coupe.
The beautiful (there’s that subjective word again) “loose cushion” velour Brougham seats look as close to new as can be, at least from what we see in the photos. Oldsmobile offered the third-generation Cutlass line from 1972 for the 1973 model year until the end of 1977; then they were downsized a bit. This car appears to be loaded with features and options, which could explain the nice auction price so far, with three days left to go before the cyber hammer falls. The back seat looks equally nice, but there was no way to put down the rear side windows in the era of 99.9% of humans smoking at all times, so that could have been a bummer for anyone riding back there in this era. A 5-speed manual would have been an option with the 260 V8, so you know which engine I would have gotten on this car.
Now that’s a clean engine compartment! This is Oldsmobile’s Rocket 350-cu.in. OHV V8, which in this era had 170 horsepower and 270 lb-ft of torque when new. Backed by a three-speed Turbo-Hydramatic transmission sending power to the rear wheels, the seller says everything works as it should, which presumably means the air conditioning as well. This looks like one of those “nicest ones left” cars to me. What are your thoughts on this yellow Cutlass Supreme Brougham Coupe?
I’m old enough to remember when these Colonnades were new and everywhere! These still look as appealing to me now as they did in the 1970s, and I also recall seeing a few “Yellow” ones. This one’s unusual and optioned nicely. Fun find and great write-up, Scotty- thanks for sharing this Olds with us!
Padded roofs always makes me wary of whats underneath..but it is a beautiful car.
These Cutlass and Cutlass Supremes were the most popular cars on the road in the mid 70s, I owned a couple of them, great cars, not super fast, but very smooth and comfortable
One of my favorite years of one of my favorite cars. I honestly don’t remember seeing a Cutlass in yellow. I like it. Love that brochure too, that just brings you back. The Olds 350 seemed to be the most common engine choice at least to me. But a 260 with the 5 speed would have been unique. They’re out there. Like Mike already said, this one is optioned very nicely, even though a console and buckets are noce, those seats are seriously comfortable. Nice Cutlasss!! Thanks Scotty!! I enjoyed this.
Unique, but a dog. The five speed T-50 that was used was nothing to write home about. Definitely not as robust as the Muncies from earlier years which is why they were paired with the smaller displacement 260.
Oddly, I have not seen too many black interior 76-77 Cutlasses. Seems like they’re usually tan or white. With the black VT and light yellow exterior, it’s a nice contrast. These colonnades make for a really nice cruiser and with the 350, there is still plenty of power to merge into modern day traffic.
Would have to be the Cutlass Salon for the floor shift and buckets
I was too young to influence my dad when he went out and bought a pre-owned ’77 Cutlass. He bought an oddly equipped non brougham – a V6 in brown with a *full* tan vinyl top, wire hupcaps with A/C, tilt, AM radio and light group for major options. It did have the ‘digital’ clock like this one, which I thought was odd. Not even a remote mirror. Next vehicle I became an ‘influencer’!
Back in the days when you could order individual options, no matter your taste…
I have a blue one and I love it!!!
I have a blue one and I love it!!!
Why no picture of the beautiful front end? That really made these cars back in the day.
Pinto, we always hope that folks will click on the eBay, craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, etc., listings to see the actual ads that the sellers write, and to see all of the photos. That being said, here’s their (vertical) photo of the front end.
That’s all well and good when signal boosting current listings, which is mainly what you do, but you also maintain an archive that goes back much further than eBay or Craigslist’s servers go before deleting listings.
Go to the eBay listing.
I had a blue ’77 Cutlass, overall a solid car. The two things that just kill acceleration in them is the 2.41 rear end and terrible exhaust designed around the pellet catalytic converter. Once I took care of those two issues it was noticeably quicker and more fun to drive.
I have a good friend in San Diego, I am to tell him to go look at it. If it is as nice it looks, I will buy it!
I had a blue 1975 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme with a 350 V8. Best car I ever owned!
Great looking & loaded Brougham. It’s missing the “Brougham” emblem from the right front fender, & unless it’s the lighting the right door jamb looks like two colors.
Other than that, as I said, this is a great looking car in an unusual color with a nice contrasting black roof & interior. Be interesting to see what it goes for.
If I were a few years younger I would jump right at it, I had a few Oldsmobiles back in my 30s. This is a fine example of a great American brand. Thanks for sharing Scotty.
Don’t agree that all cars are beautiful. I can easily name 20 that aren’t, including the Aztec. Omni, horizon, K-cars, pintos ALL early hybrids especially Prius etc… BUT this Olds is gorgeous! Easily a 5 figures price and what a great car to drive.
Last of the good ones in the early to mid 80s they switched to the front wheel drive junk with smaller engine and 4 doors. I have always thought the rear wheel drive cars gave a better ride the only benefit I see to the front drive is snow traction
nice looking cutlass. i see it still wearing the original smog pump. olds really had some wild patterns for their seats.
Here’s a sweet looking Cutlass that’s truly hard to fault. Has all the options, which is practically everything you see, although I would bet that the steering wheel was swapped. Looking at the brochure it’s easy to see how the Cutlass name plate was the best selling car for so many years in a row, also pushing Oldsmobile to the coveted number three sales place. Attainable luxury and something for everyone.
Steering wheel a option.
Well aware of that. I’m saying it’s 1000:1 that it came out of Fisher Body like that. More likely over the dealer parts counter.
Beautiful styling. Beautiful color. Comfortable seats. A real 5.7 liter V8. Automatic transmission not a CVT. Air conditioning. Looks to be in good condition or was detailed well. These were very popular in their day. The 1978 redesign looked like a scale model of the 1977 and the displacement was smaller but still retained the Cutlass look. So we are fortunate to have an excellent example of the 1977 model for sale.
I owned a car exactly like this one back in 1987. Same color brougham edition.
Beautiful car to look at and drive. Would drive this today.
Very nice for an unrestored survivor ’77. Olds called the ’68-’72 their 2nd gen, and ’73-’77 3rd gen. As John said, the right side door jamb does look like it’s had some work done and the paint wasn’t matched perfectly but the rest looks great. The Cutlass Supreme was Oldsmobiles biggest selling model for several years, so of course they ruined it with a downsized FWD in ’88. Too bad they stopped building it. I had an ’84 & an ’87, both with the Buick 3.8/auto ~ they weren’t hotrods but they weren’t real dogs either. Either one of them would outrun my ’73 Plymouth Satellite with a 400 CI V8 gas hog engine. A guy hit me & totaled the ’84 & the ex got the ’87 in the divorce. They were both great cars. This thing is going to make someone a really nice low mileage ride.
Joe, I also had an ’84 Cutlass Brougham coupe for 27 years with the 3.8 liter V6. 10 years of shows got me 19 trophies. Sold it 7 years ago.
I wish this was in Florida. My wife WANTS one of these.
Fly in & drive home.
Interesting that it still has the alpha designated tires on it. A long road trip in this beauty would certainly need new tires after 40 plus years.
Alpha designated? 40 plus years? Cooper Cobra Radial GT is not a 40 year old tire. It’s what I’m running on my ’62 Impala SS and I just bought them last year. They are great tires.
Back in the day, we called these the Oldmobile Gutless, or the Gutless Cutlass, and we saw plenty of them. Seeing this one with this color combo makes me want it fir some reason. I didn’t have one back then, drove a 74 Dodge hippyvan with a 318 and T-flite and a 74 Dodge Swinger with same. Both might have been quicker than this Olds, but I learned to carry 2 Ballast Resistors in the glove box. Even taught my wife at the time how to change them (like plugging a light cord into a socket). Anyway, I appreciate this OldMansMobile over the lookalike SUVs of today.
As the years long owner of many Olds Cutlass’s like this one, and also Dodge vans and Dodge Swingers, the Olds would blow those away like nothing. You must have had one with the secondaries blocked off.
Yes the ever important waterfall grill, my friend had the auto trans 260 powered sand on tan interior one & it was a nice car but slow but no one cared when Van Halen was playing at 10!
Great looking car! One of the most comfortable cruisers ever produced. I had a 75 442 and boy do I miss it!
My wife and I had a black 76 cutlass, 350 it was a great car we loved it.
We drove it for 6 years and put 160000 miles on it and the NY winters ate it up.
Sold today, (September 7th) for $11,219.77. Pretty good price, I think.
Thanks, Jon! I was just going back to see which vehicles sold and list the price, if it was an auction, in case anyone checks back later.
I miss my 77. Ordered a new one, Salon model, 403 4v, all options but T tops. It was black with Firethorn red interior.