My Olds Mobile Story
I can't match the Mercedes-Benz stories, because my family didn't buy imported cars. They lived in the midwest, and at the time I was growing up you bought a car that you could afford, and that matched your status in life. For my folks and relatives, that...
My dad had an Olds Cutlass 64’…
Thing was huge…blue…straight out of Mad Men like Drapers Cadillac…
An other wonderful post, Mike.
They sure don’t make them like they used to! Thank for sharing this personal story with some incredible cars!
I had forgotten about that "thermometer-speedometer"! My dad had a 1960 Super 88! Boring Brown. We also had a '64 F-85 station wagon. Boring green... it was a V8.. not sure if that
would have been the alloy one sold to Rover (do you know Mike?). That was the first family car I drove (when lucky enough to). Pops sure wasn't about to let me take out his cream white '62 Coupe de Ville Caddy. I was never into giant American barges but t...
Great post !
We never owned an Olds but my father told me a story where my other grandfather bought a Studebaker while he didn’t have a license yet. So my dad and my uncle had to learn him how to drive .... the first lesson he ended up in a ditch and gave a key to my ...
A DS break is even better.
And yes ... legendary on 3 wheels, they don’t make em like that anymore 😢.
I never had an Olds, but Uncle Vatche owned a silver-grey '66 or '67 Toronado . . .
. . . for a few years. Don't recall exactly why he got rid of it, but do remember seeing the speedometer in action. Not as aggressively as your Grandfather drove, though . . . that would've been a memory for the ages! Art
My first car was an 80s Pontiac 6000
Not a great car, but your first is always special. My Dad owned I think a 1969 GTO, which was stolen in Boston before I was born…. Wish he had been able to hold onto it.
F-85!!
Bought one back at the 1988... -62 Jetfire!! First Turbo charged production car..! Very cool.. Did a lot and restorated it before I sold it -94.. Gone but Not Forgotten!
