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To: muleskinner; Fiddlstix; TexasTransplant; Squeako; dennisw; norwaypinesavage; 1Old Pro; weps4ret; ...
Automobile History Ping!.................
2 posted on
09/18/2023 11:59:13 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: SunkenCiv
3 posted on
09/18/2023 11:59:37 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
4 posted on
09/18/2023 12:11:55 PM PDT by
1Old Pro
To: Red Badger
I learned to drive a 1969 Delta 88.
5 posted on
09/18/2023 12:13:46 PM PDT by
exnavy
(Grow your faith, and have the courage to use it.)
To: Red Badger
Olds had a home down the street from my house in Daytona Beach when I was a little kid. Next door to him was Cuban Pres. Batista’s house. A short time before Castro took over, Batista bought the Olds home...a pretty deep pink Spanish-style place. Some family members were going to live in his old house next door. He never moved in. The state department wouldn’t let him retire to the US.
7 posted on
09/18/2023 12:14:38 PM PDT by
ryderann
To: Red Badger
My kindergarten teacher had a '55 Rocket 88. One day she gave my neighbor kid and me a ride home (he had a playground accident and I was the ride
beneficiary).
To this day I recall that car and the way the engine sounded as she gave it the throttle to get up our hill.
12 posted on
09/18/2023 12:21:44 PM PDT by
llevrok
(Whoever said “Crime Doesn't Pay” never met a Biden.)
To: Red Badger
GM made it work for decades, so who am I to second-guess but there always seemed to be too much redundancy in their brands. Ford and Chrysler seemed to go for whole steps when moving from the base brand to the luxury brands (Ford to Mercury to Lincoln and Dodge to Plymouth to Chrysler) while GM went with half-steps (Chevrolet to Pontiac to Oldsmobile to Buick to Cadillac).
14 posted on
09/18/2023 12:23:30 PM PDT by
CommerceComet
("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
To: Red Badger
Olds 98 was the exact same as a Cadillac, just a little cheaper because it didn't have the prestigious name.
To: Red Badger
...airbags in 1973. Marketed as the Air Cushion Restraint System...
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I wonder if any of these cars are still out there and what the condition of the inflator system is.
To: Red Badger
I remember cars like that from the ‘70s. Some of those things were like land yachts. It could take one or two VW bugs to maneuver them into the dock, I mean parking space.
20 posted on
09/18/2023 12:29:42 PM PDT by
Bounced2X
(Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
To: Red Badger
Fascinating story! Thanks for posting. How we take for granted such breakthroughs such as the cross-plane V8 crank.
21 posted on
09/18/2023 12:37:57 PM PDT by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: Red Badger
“The marvelous Men of Olds’!”
22 posted on
09/18/2023 12:38:56 PM PDT by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Red Badger
Very informative. Thanks. And a tribute to capitalism, in contrast to most of Soviet Communism
23 posted on
09/18/2023 12:39:08 PM PDT by
daniel1212
(As a damned+destitute sinner turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves souls on His acct + b baptized 2 obey)
To: Red Badger
No mention of the 5.7 diesels. Hmm.
30 posted on
09/18/2023 1:04:03 PM PDT by
beef
(The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
To: Red Badger
My 1971 442 W-31 olds.
37 posted on
09/18/2023 1:16:26 PM PDT by
justme4now
(Our Right's are God given and I don't need permission from politicians or courts to exercise them!)
To: Red Badger
I once owned an Oldsmobile that had absolutely no Oldsmobile names or badging on it.
Which Olds did I own?
43 posted on
09/18/2023 1:45:10 PM PDT by
Responsibility2nd
(A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
To: Red Badger
The Omega had a “mini” radio which meant you couldn’t replace it to have a kick butt stereo
44 posted on
09/18/2023 1:45:56 PM PDT by
AppyPappy
(Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
To: Red Badger
When little old ladies drove V8s to church.
46 posted on
09/18/2023 1:51:43 PM PDT by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: Red Badger
I was born and raised in Lansing, Michigan, home and corporate headquarters of Oldsmobile. You couldn’t swing a stick without hitting an Oldsmobile assembly plant or an Oldsmobile vehicle. There were all sorts of industrial production facilities there who supplied parts to all three car companies. GM vehicles were so predominant my Dad became a Ford man just to not be a Lemming.
My best friend’s Dad worked the Line at one plant and bought one of the first Toronados. A beautiful car. When we were in high school he bought my friend a beat-up used 442. It burned about a quart of oil per mile. Driving to football practice we emulated one of the old WWII Navy destroyers making smoke in the middle of battle. By that time his Dad had used the education benefits and was an Engineer for Olds and my best friend followed his Dad into the automobile engineering business and has now retired.
Oldsmobile was a huge part of my life and I look back in sadness that it is gone.
52 posted on
09/18/2023 2:27:23 PM PDT by
OldMissileer
(Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
To: Red Badger
The cutlass was a really good car.
56 posted on
09/18/2023 3:19:40 PM PDT by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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