The sales slide for the Starfire began in 1963. As expected, the coupe outsold the convertible by about five to one total Starfire production reached 41,988.Want to grow your knowledge about the expanded Starfire lineup? A complete sheetmetal revamp gave the Starfire a clean, new look. Despite direct competition from the new Pontiac Grand Prix, this model year would mark the all-time high production record for the Starfire as a separate series. Oldsmobile product planners expanded the Starfire lineup in 1962 with the addition of a coupe. Even rarer was a direct-to-dealer piece urging dealerships to stage special open houses to showcase the new model, giving interested dealerships with up to 500 invitations and envelopes. The introduction of the Starfire came too late to include the first-year model in most 1961 Oldsmobile literature, but a special tri-fold, six-panel brochure outlined Starfire virtues. The production run was far more ambitious than the limited-production Fiesta and 7,600 of the 1961 Starfires were built - making it the second most popular 1961 Olds convertible. Convertible tops could be had in white, black, green, blue, fawn, and red.Ī price tag of $4,647 made the Starfire the most expensive Olds since the special Fiesta convertible that listed at $5,717 in 1953, and $8 more expensive than the 1961 T-Bird ragtop. Production Starfires came in 15 exterior colors and interiors of gray, fawn, blue, and red. The special Waldorf-Astoria Starfire was painted in a deep luster Autumn Mist and complemented by a red leather interior and white convertible top. Of course, the 10.25:1 compression ratio meant that it burned only premium fuel.
It looked as well as it ran, sporting a chrome-plated air cleaner perched atop the four-barrel carburetor and shiny valve covers and oil filler cap. V-8 that cranked out 330 HP and 440 lbs/ft of torque at 2800 rpm. The Starfire's sparkling performance came from the Rocket V-8, a 395-cubic-in. But it was the Starfire's interior that stood out as its most striking feature leather-covered bucket seats separated a multi-faceted console that had a chrome-plated automatic transmission shifter, tachometer, and much more. Exterior styling touches exclusive to the Starfire included two slim parallel hood moldings and a 4-in.-wide band of brushed aluminum on the sides.
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