74 Toronado with airbag option

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Markpetroulakis
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74 Toronado with airbag option

Postby Markpetroulakis » Tue Jul 21, 2015 7:40 pm

Hi guys I just bought a 74 Toronado with the Airbag option. My question is how many of these were built in 74 and I read that the first airbag car built for 74 was a Toronado any way I can find out what the VIN was

toro68
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Years Owned: 1968 Toronado, silver owned since Dec1986/Jan 1987 to present
1968 W-34 Toronado (totaled 3/9/03), blue, owned since August 1994
1968 W-34 Torondo, gold, loaded with many rare options, owned since 2003
1968 W-34 Toronado, red, bought in Nov/Dec of 2005, Was Lot#609 for Barrett-Jackson auction, March of 2005 . Firdst two "owners", was GM employees. I'm still in contact with Bob B. (OLds Zone Rep for North CArolina, retired 1992).


I aslos have a white 1985 Buick Riveria, that I would like to trade for another Toronado, or an old Ford pick-up truck.
Location: Sebago,Maine

Re: 74 Toronado with airbag option

Postby toro68 » Tue Sep 29, 2015 2:07 pm

I don't the numbers on the 1974 and 1975 Toros withe the air bag option.
I remember seeing on 60 Minutes, back in the 1980s about air bags.
The beginning of that segment 1975 Toronado that was hit a head on,the female owner wa unaware that this Oldsmobile had the rare air bag option.
I have not be able to find that segment on YouTube.

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Otto Skorzeny
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Re: 74 Toronado with airbag option

Postby Otto Skorzeny » Tue Sep 29, 2015 7:33 pm

toro68 wrote:I don't the numbers on the 1974 and 1975 Toros withe the air bag option.
I remember seeing on 60 Minutes, back in the 1980s about air bags.
The beginning of that segment 1975 Toronado that was hit a head on,the female owner wa unaware that this Oldsmobile had the rare air bag option.
I have not be able to find that segment on YouTube.


I think the incident you refer to was a lot more recent than the 1980s. I recall hearing about it on the news. I believe it occurred in the 90s or 2000s. The woman had owned the car since new.

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Re: 74 Toronado with airbag option

Postby Otto Skorzeny » Wed Sep 30, 2015 6:18 am

Here is an incident similar to the one you refer.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid= ... 7619&hl=en

I swear I remember a much more recent incident of a similar nature but can't find it on the web.


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