On the pages devoted to the Toronado XSR Coupe in a 1977 catalog , Oldsmobile need , " Can we build one for you ? " It turns out they think of exactly that – one .
The XSR was a 1977 Toronado transmit to American Sunroof Corporation ( ASC ) for a T - top conversion . This was no typical conversion , but a index T - top with glass venire that slip under a wide center bar .
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Oldsmobile had eminent hope for the cable car . Not only did an airbrush XSR share the cover of the Olds " big - auto " pamphlet , but it was also boast on a two - page spread inside . Ultimately , though , the top mechanics was judged to be too troublesome , so the only XSR ever build up was the paradigm .
alternatively , Olds produce the Toronado XS , an XSR with a formal tint - meth sunroof in place of the T - top . Both shared an unusual wraparound rear window often liken with Studebaker Starlight coupes . Using hot - out to - wire engineering science to form sharp recess , the meth wrapped from B - pillar to B - pillar .
Otherwise , the XS , and for that matter , the XSR , were standard Toronados . With the downsizing of Olds ' full - size of it models in 1977 , Toronado became the swelled Oldsmobile , count at least 4,747 pounds and with an overall length of 227.5 inches .
The 455 - cid V-8 of yore was replace by a 200 - H.P. , 403 - Criminal Investigation Command V-8 . The XS sold for $ 10,684 , or $ 2,550 more than a fundament Toronado Brougham . First - yr production was 2,713 ; another 2,453 were made for 1978 .
ASC bribe back the lone XSR in 1978 . It hoped to sell other manufacturer on the " galvanic , self - storing T - top " but had given up by 1981 . The XSR was then sell and disappeared into the used - car securities industry .
The Firethorn Red T - top Toronado feature here is driven in good atmospheric condition ; the prototype top lack a drain and passing water in the rain .
