delta 88Why did the Oldsmobile Delta 88 have to go away. When the first generation of Oldsmobile 88 came out in 1949, it introduced one of the first postwar overhead valveThe Delta name in 1965 was an upscale trim of the Dynamic 88, the Dynamic 88 Delta, replacing the previous top-series B-body Olds, the Super 88. Early '65s were referred to as