SIA Flashback – More Alike Than You Might Expect: 1936 LaSalle vs. 1936 Oldsmobile

While many a GM car shared a body shell over the years, that didn’t necessarily make them all that close – GM for many years proved adept at spinning off far-from-identical cars that shared a number of major components. However, as Arch Brown pointed out in this comparison of the 1936 La Salle and 1936 Oldsmobile in SIA #144, November 1994, for a while there in the mid-1930s the La Salle shared an awful lot more with the Oldsmobile than with the Cadillac, as one would have expected, making the La Salle and Olds pretty much twins under the skin.