For a 17-year-old high school kid, Mike Jaecks landed himself a pretty darn nice car back in 1977. So nice, in fact, that he decided to keep the car virtually unchanged and in like-new condition.
Permanently.
The handsome 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass S that the young Schofield, Wis., resident took home as a teen is the proverbial “time capsule” car 45 years later. With only 14,000 miles on the odometer, you’d swear the Olds still has that new car smell inside.
It’s not exactly the way Jaecks expected things to play out for the beautiful two-door, landau-style coupe.
“I had a ’73 Charger and loved that car, but back then, I was always having to do something on it, keep working on it,” he recalls. “So I graduated from high school … and I liked these cars when they came out, and I wanted something that didn’t have a
