Oldsmobile 57

Detroit in the late Fifties was turning out cars that were getting bigger, oldsmobile 57, brasher and flashier and yet, some would say, less functional in terms of practicality and driving enjoyment.

Rarely in life is a person more self-conscious and annoying than they are at 13, but there is no period of life without its advantages. As a 13 year old, I often visited the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI, which had and has a lovely gift shop, where my parents bought me a book titled Cruise O Matic: Automobile Advertising of the s , thereby sealing my fate as an inveterate hoarder of antique paper products. The book contained little analysis, just a glorious cross section of automotive art, both drawings and photography. I currently have thousands of car ads including the one pictured above in addition to my ridiculous collection of actual cars, toys, and literature. Although Oldsmobile remained in the top-five in sales for and , those sales plummeted from , in to , in and , in The dashboard is appropriately glitzy, but not too much so for

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One wonders how things would have played out if those finned Mopars had debuted for the model year.

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Oldsmobile showed a real propensity for power in the '50s. The cu. OHV V-8 that the division introduced in ran 7. That was the base engine. For an extra kick in the pants, you could order the J2 option code W. J2 had been around as a performance option since the early '50s, but for and '58, J2 ran three two-barrel carburetors. Olds had been developing 3x2-bbl carburetion for a couple of years under Pete Estes, an engine-development engineer and assistant chief engineer at Olds before he became chief engineer at Pontiac in September In December of '56, Pontiac announced Tri-Power for a spring release--no doubt prepared with information Estes brought with him from Oldsmobile. So J2 was a troika of Rochester carbs on top of an otherwise-standard Olds Rocket engine; they were linked together via a progressive throttle linkage.

Oldsmobile 57

Who knows? It must have sounded good at the time, but it was short lived. In the brochure this same car is illustrated in a blue color, but our example in the flesh is appropriately golden, if a bit faded.

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Continue reading. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. I too prefer the bigger-bodied Oldsmobiles and Buicks from to Trucks, Pickups and Vans. J P Cavanaugh. GM, meanwhile, would have been on the second year of these B- and C-bodies, with an all-new A-body debuting in In February , journalist Joe Wherry tested a Jequipped 98 for Motor Trend magazine and claimed a mph time of 9. The driver screeched to a halt, wound down his cab window, threw a fire extinguisher out of the window, and drove off. Get the latest Classic American news and updates straight to your inbox plus a FREE back issue to read right now, sign up below…. Stephen Pellegrino.

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Steve spent the next six to nine months repairing the car and getting it painted red. Posted January 3, at AM. As a kid, we had several. To me, these were great cars and still are. When we do that, we can see how both Buick and Oldsmobile lost popularity during that year. At least windshield visors have fallen from fashion. The styling continuity from the previous years makes for a handsome evolution. That would have given Chrysler more time to get the build quality right. Posted January 4, at PM. Not only were the Mopars radically styled, but management had pulled them forward by one year. I thought the three glass rear window was odd and not effective, and a jarring contrast to the huge glass in the front. I would have left off the dual fender rockets though.