'57 Oldsmobile sales pitch....

[electra225]

I thought this was neat and wanted to share it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OoylT7KB_U

[TC Chris]

The subject line is '57 Olds but the link is to a Heath VTVM on eBay....
Chris Campbell

[electra225]

Oops...... Sorry. Try it now.

[Firedome]

Like that '57 Olds video, talk about hard selling! Love those bumper exhaust ports. The '58s only had them on S 88 and 98s. We had a gorgeous '57 Super 88 convert with low miles in the mid '80s, you could actually buy them reasonably back then.

[Firedome]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpC-fwrTPoQ

This one is my '57 favorite, by concentrating on roadability not styling features.
My experience owning '3 56-58 GMs is similar and 4 '58 Mopars is similar.

And for '58: commentary by everyone's favorite car scribe, Tom McCahill... inimitable!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBNWBHYp41w

Mopar torsion bars made all the difference. IMO there was no comparison in handling.
TorqueFlite was clearly superior as well. Watching this makes me want another '57 or '58
Mopar! The '58s were better put together, '57's had some body quality issues due to rushing
into production a year early.

[walyfd]

Wow...

Like I said, Oldsmobile was GMs test car...

Many advancements over Cadillac... self-energizing brakes... is that the same as self-adjusting that cadillac didn't get until 1960? Vacuum controlled heater... 1959 for other GM...

Still no electric wipers. Seems like front suspension was ball joint. And the "economy dual exhaust"... until you have to replace it... then again, most new car buyers traded on another new car in 2 years...

I had the horrible experience of selling pre-need funerals... I got the shivers listening to some of the mind-controlling "how to sell" stuff...

Sales are NOT for me.

[TC Chris]

Fun video.... Not necessarily completely objective, I suspect.

My buddy's dad, the high school vice principal (disciplinarian) had a three-two-barrel '57 Olds. It was an old car by the mid-60s but still accelerated impressively.

Chris Campbell

[electra225]

Olds and Pontiac got all the good stuff. Fancy interiors, Hydramatic. Buick never got three deuces, the only division of GM that didn't get them. I believe the new '57 styling worked better on Olds and Pontiac as well. There was a deacon in our church who bought a new red and white 98 four door hardtop for several years. He had the first new Oldsmobile in the community.

[19&41]

It was fun seeing George C. Scott in an early performance.