Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) an Oldsmobile car.

1907		N.Y. Times 14 Aug. 8/2: Other automobile parties registered at the hotel include: [...] R. R. Brinsmade, New York City, destination Boston, in an Olds, chauffeur Barney Campbell .
1910		Domestic Engineering 52 309/1: Mr. Smith drove his 60 H. P. Stearns while Mr. Detweiler was seated in his Olds.
1932		Amer. Motorist Feb. 4/3: An oil-tempered regulator, automatic choke and thermostatic manifold heat control are refinements destined to play a part in Olds popularity for 1932 [OED].
1940		Amer. Flint 29 55: Our mould shop foreman, Leo Shaw, has traded his Olds on a new 1940 Olds with all the trimmings, and it certainly is a swell car.
1949		Atlantian 8 17: The major pulled his Olds into the filling station.
1953		R. Chandler Long Good-Bye 7: ‘Get my car, will you?’ I gave him the ticket. By the time he brought my Olds over I felt as if I was holding up a sack of lead.
1960		C. Cooper Jr Scene (1996) 66: Ahead of him, parked at the curb in the circular drive, was an Olds.
1972		G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 69: I see they got this brand-new Olds.
1985		N. Pileggi Wiseguy (2001) 185: MacDonald got the court’s approval to install electronic bugs and homing devices in Jimmy’s Olds.
1993		(con. 1969) N.L. Russell Suicide Charlie 20: He told me the Olds had a quart-an-hour oil habit and gas mileage to make an Arab sheik smile.
2000		M. Collins Keepers of Truth 3: Like my old man used to polish his ’62 Olds.
2009		(con. 1960s) J. Ellroy Blood’s a Rover 23: Bobby Gallard had a Rocket Olds. Phil Irwin had a 409 Chevy.
2020		S.A. Crosby Blacktop Wasteland 1: ‘You ain’t just beating the Olds, homeboy!’ a guy [...] crowed. He was strutting around his ’76 Oldsmobile Cutlass.