When the Starfire arrived by flatbed to Hunter’s Minnesota home, he wasn’t thrilled with the color. His dry Texas find was purchased new by a dentist in Houston from Bill McDavid Oldsmobile, one of the nation’s top-selling Oldsmobile dealerships, at least in the 1970s. “I always liked my dad’s Starfire, so I bought this one in Texas in 1986,” Hunter said. Regardless of how it sold, the Starfire was a fine used car for Hunter’s dad, and for Hunter. Along with leather-trimmed buckets and sports console, they’re all part of the package! One thing’s for sure: When you flip the key to a Starfire, you’re pulling the pin on one of America’s most exciting cars!”Īs exciting as the Starfire may have been, the new Olds 4-4-2, a new Thunderbird and the Riviera’s second year of production may have cut into its sales, as production fell to 16,163 hardtop and convertible models in 1964 from 25,890 hardtop and convertible models in 1963. The quiet authority of T-stick Hydra-Matic, power steering and brakes. From its bold new grille and functional fender vents to its exclusive dual-chambered exhaust, this beauty’s new action silhouette says ’64 belongs to Starfire! Sample the fire of the 345-hp Starfire V-8. Someday there’ll be another car that combines the niceties of life with the thrill of the open road as neatly as Starfire does. When marketing the Starfire, Oldsmobile exclaimed: “High adventure starts here.
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In 1962, a hardtop model joined the Starfire line, and by 1964 Oldsmobile was flying high with its “Oldsmobile Sports Cars:” the Starfire the Jetstar I, which used a less-trimmed interior yet shared the Eighty-Eight hardtop body, engine and chassis with the Starfire, but at a lower cost and the smaller F-85 Cutlass. Rear view of the lithe 1964 Oldsmobile Starfire two-door hardtop. Despite it being the most expensive convertible model in 1961, people rocketed to showrooms and made the Starfire Oldsmobile’s second-best-selling full-size convertible with 7,800 cars sold, just behind the much-less-expensive Dynamic Eighty-Eight convertible with 9,049 sales. In addition to a powerful 394-cid V-8, the Starfire personal luxury cars were highly trimmed, as one would expect on a larger Ninety-Eight, but utilized the smaller Eighty-Eight convertible body to create the big engine-little body combo that makes go-fast fans tremble.
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With the introduction of the Starfire in 1961, Oldsmobile began revving its performance image back to what it was in the 1950s. The history of the Starfire goes back a little farther than 1969, or even 1964, for that matter. My dad beat a 383 Road Runner with that Starfire, but no one would believe how fast it was for a luxury car until my dad proved it to them by beating them.” “That’s the car I grew up with… We took it fishing and to the drag strip. “My dad had one in 1969 and sold it in ’75,” he said.