Update 3/29/2018 – Shortly after featuring Mark’s Toronado, he found a buyer for it. Sadly, the deal fell through due to a variety of unfortunate circumstances on the buyer’s end, so this beautiful Toronado is back on the market. If you’d love to give it a good home, please use the form below to contact Mark!
Seller Description: Excellent condition Toronado with 48,000 original miles. Originally from Nashville, TN. No Northern winters (garaged from October to April). Great tires, spoked wheel covers, all options. Original with the exception of aftermarket radio/CD player with remote. Runs great; A/C blows cold.
Before listing his Toronado with us, Mark contacted me to see if I thought anyone on the site would be interested in it. I know ’80s Toronados aren’t the most sought after, but once I saw just how clean this Olds is, I knew someone out there would want it! It looks to be in amazing shape inside and out. With a good cleaning, it would look like a brand new car!
The Toronado saw a number of changes over the years, but one thing always held constant, being a big luxury cruiser! While Mark’s car might be lacking leather, it is still a well optioned car with everything you’d expect to find in a luxury barge.
If you would like to make him an offer or have any question, please be sure to message him via the form below. I want to thank him for listing it with us and hopefully we can find a good home for it! If you have a low mileage survivor that needs to go, please consider listing it here on Barn Finds!
Asking Price: $4,800
Location: Rochester, New York
Title Status: Clean
Mileage: 48,000
I always liked the styling on these. More so than the Buick or Cadillac versions. This would be a great car for a young driver. It’d win in almost any crash.
Riviera is more desirable
Disagree respectfully.
I like both the Rivs and Toros from this era.
I cringe at the thought of a young driver getting this gem. Most likely, it wouldn’t get the loving home it deserves
Nice listing…will find a good home. Would make a great April-October cruiser. I like the pillow velour….good for napping. I don’t think I would let a young driver have this unless he/she is very responsible and has an appreciation for design, etc….otherwise its the 10 yr old Kia beater for a first car.
I miss those pillow seats from the 80’s
These are nice cars, and with the XSC touring suspension, they handle like a new car…I drive mine as much as I can. This one seems very fairly priced.
Very nice!
Looks just like my old 80.
gorgeous!
I had an 80 Toro just like Tom’s dark brown one shown. Loved that car–smooth, smooth, smooth–but my 80 had a 350 and although the listing doesn’t say, I hope this one has the 307. Back when I was in the market, I became eternally grateful to the Wall Street Journal for printing an article about the problems with the GM diesels. The WSJ saved me from making a big mistake. One Olds dealer had four Toros on the lot and they were all diesels but I didn’t want to spend the extra $1k so I looked elsewhere and I hadn’t read the article until a few days later. Thank you WSJ! I always preferred cloth over leather anyway. Like I used to tell the car salesmen who pushed leather, “To me, leather is like expensive vinyl–hot in the summer, cold in the winter–and you pay $1,000 for the privilege.” Maybe the 84 is a “barge” when you compare it to what came later but not when you compare it to what Toros used to be. This one seems to be fairly well-optioned but it certainly doesn’t have “all options” as the listing states. Without going down a checklist, just a quick look at the dash tells me that it doesn’t have the Twilight Sentinel System unless GM changed it from 1980. Back then, I also replaced the Delco stereo in mine with a Blaupunkt. I couldn’t believe that GM would put such crappy speakers in what was supposed to be a high-end car. Even so, this is still a nice car but I’d have the boots replaced if they haven’t been already.
You said it right, leather is an expensive vinyl. While yes, leather is normally nicer and softer than vinyl, it probably doesn’t have the durability over time that vinyl does. It relates in a sense to vinyl tops in the 1970s and 1980s. Many of them ended up ragged or replaced unless kept in a garage. And interiors over summers can get 120+ which is not good for long wear. Give me cloth any day, but car manufacturers pushes leather in new cars now unless it’s an econobox. You also normally have to get leather in order to get other options you may desire.
Stunningly beautiful! I love it!!!
Nice car good price it’ll go quick.
It’s a big Pussycat. I had a 1966, with the exception of the gas mileage it was terrific. I am on the Left Coast and believe me this car would eat Freeways for breakfast. It was also very esoteric engineering for its time. I’m going to see if I
have any more room, known as creative auto placement in the garage……
The Buick and Cadillac E bodies had better sales numbers in my region but, this is still a nice car at a nice price. And yes, those pillow top seats were pure pleasure.
I agree, probably one of the nicest road cars in the 80’s. To be clear, I’ve been through Nashville with 10 inches of snow , and salters a’ plenty, so that claim isn’t iron clad. These are great in the snow, and it would be awful tempting years ago to “just take the Toro” in a snowstorm. It’s the 80’s, all right, I think there’s an engine in there somewhere. Mechanic’s nightmare. The 307 (?) was better on gas than the big motors, but not by much. They worked pretty hard to move this car. Still a very nice car, no doubt.
Hey Howard…Truth be told, the 307 was not Buick’s small block crown but turned out to be an embarrassment. The 305 out performed in durability and longevity (not performance). The 307 lasted about 50k before it need a top end rebuild.
I’ve owned three cars with the Olds 307 and never had top end issues. Drove them well over 150k miles. Both 305’s I’ve had have had to have valve stem replacements.
I have 307 on 1987 olds station custom cruiser – over 120000 and runs spotless
Driving on lond distances – I will never replace for new
I had a brown 1980 just like the one in the pics (gorgeous) but mine had a 350 which had plenty of pep. No worries merging onto an expressway. I think the one in this listing has a 305 which is probably “adequate” but I can’t say for sure. My old 80 was one sweet, sweet, car–great for road trips. The only real problem I had with it (other than the 10 or so factory defects when I first got the car :( which were repaired under warranty) was that water leaked from the sunroof into the trunk. What was really tragic was that it had to sit outside in my driveway from day one which was rough on the paint. If I had the garage space back then like I do now, I’d probably still have my 80.
I had a 307 in an 84 Olds Custom Cruiser, which was the top of the line full size wagon. Was a beautiful car, had some tranny trouble with it, at less than 10k miles, but they sorted it out. The 307, is/was a true Olds only motor, and it ran great, and moved that full size wagon around fine.
Always thought this body style Toro was very classy. Price might be a bit optimistic on this car, but if the ad is true, you get a pretty nice car for less than $5k
I always wanted a 1970 Toronado GT with the W34 option. Oh well, I do have a 425/385 hp engine from a ’67 Toro. Going into my ’67 F85. Sleeper!
You can see its a Olds 307 with the oilfiller tube up front, 307,s are weak on power but lasts forever!
Always liked the Tornadoes. Glad it is somewhere in New York.
My dads best friend was in the farm equipment business and travelled all the tine. He would get a new Toro every year and one of them was identical to this one, including the velour interior. He’d just gotten it when his 18 wheeler was stolen. He came up from Alabama to borrow dads semi and left the Toro like this with us. I was 16 and in love with it. Wisely dad wouldn’t let me drive it, but I’d sit in it daily, listen to the stereo, pretending and day dreaming. Back then, they’d come with a cassette of music, so I’d listen to it. Englebert Humperdinck was on it with “After The Lovin”. Funny how such details stick with us.
I am not sure if this has been previously mentioned, however, if the seller would take some time to give this beauty it’s well deserved photo shoot it would be sold already. We are a few hours from Rochester and if this car was in my possession the locals from “Rome” and “Utica” would be all over this like white on rice. In this area, in the 80’s, these cars were everywhere. In the 90’s the tin worm took them to salvage yards. I am positive there are grandpa’s here that would love this car. There is just not enough meat on the bone at the asking price, so…I am going to make an offer.
Nothing is better than old American engineering- dependable, easy to maintain and cheap.
In 1979-1980 GM had 3.5 millions recalls unheard- unbelievable
Today – last 5 years in USA sold 75 millions vehicles and we have over 325 millions recalls. Wow wow wow
Before we have engineers and designers.
Today we have computers operators w/out any experience
Hello self driving cars and …., 700 hp sport autonomous corvette driving 65 mpg
We are death brain people?
Oh – I forged – phone in yours hand is more important than – driving