- Stew's Oldsmobiles Back in late 1965 my father bought an Autumn Bronze (Maroon) 4 door 1966 Oldsmobile Delta 88. I was 7 years old. Eventually, my brother and I learned how to drive in that Delta. My friend Mark and I also learned how to fix cars using the 66 Olds and his father's 67 Catalina as our guinea pigs. With all that attention from teenagers with nothing better to do, the car ran like a ...www.columbia.edu/~sff/Olds_history.html