Looking for a Fleetwood

[robailey]

I an thinkning of buying a Fleetwood from the eighties or early nineties.  I have an 87 sixty special and would like one that I won't have to be concerned about the T4100.  A coupe would be nice but not required.  Any ideas on which would be the best.

[Rusty Shepherd CLC 6397]

If you want a coupe, I think the RWD ones from 1980 and 1981 would be good choices. That's a very attractive body style, they're much larger than the the FWD cars that followed that series and really look like a Cadillac to me.  Both years have the  very good cast iron 368 (a smaller bore, shorter stroke version of the 500/472/425 Cadillac engine); the '81, of course, is the V8-6-4 version of it and the cylinder deactivation system on many of those have been disabled because they tend to be somewhat jerky when changing cylinder modes. The '82-'85 are the same body, but have the HT4100.  Beginning with '86, the Fleetwoods had the cast iron Oldsmobile 307 4BBL engine which is reliable, but about as sluggish as the HT4100 (partially due to a lower numerical rear axle ratio than the HT4100 cars) and the coupe was no more.