Beschreibung:

For the 1956 season Oldsmobile continued their hugely successful and profitable range of V8-engined models, styled with all the flamboyance of the era in which masses of chrome was ‘de rigeur’. The basic Eighty-Eight range was extended with the addition of the Super Eighty-Eight, a more expensive model with added luxury and still more chrome. The Four-Door Holiday Sedan was the best seller from the five body styles marketed, some 61,000 examples being built from the 1956 series. Up-to-the-minute styling compared favourably with competition from Ford, Chrysler and even top-of-the-market Cadillac and the interior reflected the fashionable trend of wide bench seats with theatre-organ style dashboard and instrumentation. The overhead valve V8 engine displaced 324cu.in. and developed 240hp at 4,400rpm. The Super Eight-Eight was offered in standard form with a three-speed column shift gearbox, HydraMatic Superdrive being offered as a $175 option on this model. This car, a super stylish four-door fixed head, carries plates indicating registration in 1956. It is fitted with the Rocket engine as standard to the Super Eighty-Eight and this car has the desirable automatic gearbox option fitted. It is presented in black livery (paint no.101) and retains its original two-tone blue/cream upholstery (trim no.378). It appears to be to original factory specification in all major respects and so typifies the gas-guzzling, chrome-bedecked, muscle-engined American street cars of its era. This car has been in the Lips Collection for over twenty years and, following a period of museum display, careful recommissioning will be required before cruising the Oldsmobile at appropriate meets.