Just for "shit's and giggle's"! And before anyone complain's about it not being a custom, it has custom wheel's and tires plus the custom lettering. Also has an engine upgrade!
What a fun thread, I had a cool 49 bubble top coupe and my and dad had a fab tu-tone blue 55 4-door that was a great car. He racked up some drag racing trophy hardware for his stock/automatic class.
LOWERED RAKE, FLIPPER HUBCAPS, CHROME SIDE PIPES AND APPLETONS… https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...-car-to-a-friend.1175049/page-3#post-13364004 Hello, So Cal had a lot of similar old sedans that got the custom car treatment. Those popular accessories made the car look fast. When one teen bought a a specific set of hubcaps, they were switched around with the other cars in the group. When the side pipes were the rage, before the installation, the teenage horde ascended on the only set available and it was boosted up to their cars with wooden blocks. The Oldsmobile sedans also had the motor that could be the basis for more horsepower and drag race wins. My brother got the hot rod/customs thing going in 1956. He told me that he wanted a cool looking, fast car to keep up with some of his teenage friends. One in particular had a 1934 Ford 5 window coupe with a big Oldsmobile motor in it being used for a daily driver to high school and after school jobs. But, this one Ford coupe was also a trophy winner at Lions Dragstrip in the A/Gas class. My brother knew what he wanted. He saw the future of modifying the Olds sedan and motor to go fast. He was only 15 at the time, but somehow he found a pale yellow 1951 Oldsmobile Sedan and told our parents he was going to buy it. He was tenacious and convinced our dad to co-sign to buy it. My brother had saved his money from odd jobs over the years and dreamed of owning his first car. The only known or found photo of the 1951 Olds after he had it painted a Lime Green for the new buyer, another high school friend who lived around the corner from us in Long Beach. It was originally a Pale Yellow with big fat white walls. He kept it that way until we found a Model A to start our first hot rod/drag racer. Then after the purchase of the Model A coupe in 1957, he somehow got interested in more power and instant gratification with a new car. A 1958 black Impala was his new choice, so his friend wanted to buy the 1951 Olds, if it were Lime Green, not a Pale Yellow. So, that took place, he drove the Lime Green Oldsmobile Sedan around for a while, until the 58 Impala was ready. The Lime Green 1951 Olds in front of our Westside of Long Beach house. Jnaki The Olds had a lowered Cal Rake, Custom exhaust cut outs and mufflers, Moon Discs and chrome accessories in the engine compartment. It was his first attempt at modifying any old car, not drawn on paper. During this time, he taught me how to do most of the maintenance jobs the Olds Sedan required. It was something I wanted to learn to do, but also, he had to make me do something if I wanted to be driven to places... (basketball/baseball practice, school dances, the beach, and Lions Dragstrip, etc.) It included weekly wash and wax, as well as doing the mechanical things like changing the hubcaps with his other friends for different looks, plus new spark plugs, filters, oil, etc. He even showed me how to tune his motor with a few adjustments. He knew his Olds sedan was competitive with all of the other hot rods in the Long Beach cruising area and tried to keep up with everything possible on his limited budget. It was a custom as custom cars that were daily driver were concerned. Not a show quality highly modified custom cars, but, the ones teenagers could afford and be seen in the area, specifically, Bixby Knolls. But, cruise he did, with his friends, everywhere in So Cal, including the after Christmas Big Bear Mountain gathering of the teens from Long Beach, a Long Beach high school tradition.
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