The goal behind building a custom, some people say, is to attract attention. The history of customs is full of cars that get-or got-a lot of attention...
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This '63 Oldsmobile made its public debut at the Grand National Roadster Show in 2007. All weekend long, the area around it was clogged with...
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Let's assume that Oldsmobile had created a Nomad-style machine from 1955-57. Having a soft spot for the Vista Cruiser wagons, I dressed ourtwo examples with variations of the glass roof-one spanning the entire width, the other split into two inserts. I opted t
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Read About This 1957 Oldsmobile Fiesta wagon, Which Is Also The Rod And Custom 2007 Custom Of The Year.
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Randy Jones says he grew up in the shadow of his father, James, as his dad worked on...
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A Lifelong Oldsmobile Purist Steps Over to the Dark Side To Build aBitchin' Street Gasser.
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By the time GM designers put the finishing touches on their 1960 line-up, the jet-age influence on all their current vehicles was very clear and was in fact coming to an end, as actual space travel became more of a reality. The once long and tall tailfins woul
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Jim and Eleanor Sheldon's '56 Super 88 Is Just Like The Original Except Different
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Aaron Grote's homebuilt roadster is the kind of hot rod that always makes a huge commotion as a "Dream Car" poster, but one that hardly ever evolves from the printed page to the pavement. Wildly imaginative and original designs like the Lunar Lander are a lot
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Some people are just brand loyalists. You know who these guys are; they're the ones completely captivated by the style and feeling of a certain make for reasons even they may not be able to explain. Mark Thatcher is that way for Oldsmobiles. As long as he can
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Some of you are really getting into the spirit of YYG. Randy Keenan of Colfax, California, sent us a whole envelope full of photos from the late '50s and early '60s, when he was driving hot rods around his hometown of San Francisco. Randy says he started readi
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It's the fundamental reason behind the creation of Asphalt Ego-Rama, Tom's Fun Run, the Hot Rod Power Tour, Americruise, the Street Rodder Road Tour, and every other on-the-road run ever organized, and should be the fundamental reason behind the creation of an
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This 15 Year project is so close to being done
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Walking through Jay Leno's shop leaves you with one resounding thought: "Man, did I ever enter the wrong line of work." Million-dollar Bugattis and Duesenbergs fill one shop, while across the alley and through another unassuming door are two more cavernous roo
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Check out where the 50s meets the 60s with these 1960 Pontiac Ventura and 1951 Oldsmobile 88 hot rods come together - Rod And Custom Magazine
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'50 Olds 88 CoupeWilliam ChristiansenQuartz Hill, CAWilliam's Olds lends credence to the saying, "This isn't your father's Oldsmobile." Though this bright-yellow beauty isn't driven near as much as William would like it to be, it still turns heads at lot
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Not a '56 Chevy. Too bad it has Chevy power.
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That well-known '70s-era lowrider Gypsy Rose was all about it, bass boats and dune buggies are molded in the stuff, and it's the finishing touch on some of the tackiest acoustic ceilings around-'flake, and lots of it! Some hate it, some love it. One thing is for certain though...
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Most everyone has heard of the acronym KISS, or Keep It Simple, Stupid. Unfortunately, many custom builders on the scene today ignore that basic rule of life and opt to follow the "everything but the kitchen sink" philosophy...
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Check out this Hurst Hairy Oldsmobile on hotrod.com
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Nostalgia prompted owner Dave Foster to seek out this 1949 Oldsmobile DeLuxe 88 Club. Check out Rod and Custom about his search and his restoration efforts to capture those American Graffiti days.
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The NSRA Street Rod Nats South in Knoxville is a homecoming event for this ’47 Olds convertible. It was there in 1991 that Craig Suman first saw the rod, sitting on a trailer and wearing a “For Sale” sign with the price slashed five times.
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"I only intended to add a camshaft and lifters, fix the clutch, and paint it black," reports Tom Bush of his bad '65 Olds 4-4-2. Things got way out of control very quickly; no panel was left untouched, no detail unexecuted. Still, we were a little take
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Due to successful racing programs and repositioning itself as an "import-quality" marque, the aging Olds brand had recently made some headway in becoming "not your father’s Oldsmobile." Unfortunately, it will soon not be anybody’s car. The General ha
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