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Glad to hear of 70-degree weather. Here in Prescott Arizona, we will have snow tonight and early tomorrow.

John Barry, oh yes, Fun City John Barry & His Orchestra - Fun City (United Artist ... - YouTube

Saw this 53 and thought of John 348

Simply saying what I prefer. Different strokes.

I prefer the uplifting to the tear down songs.

Glenn, it's now in Hemmings for $20,000 Negotiable Seller’s Description: 1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass S 33,000 original miles Documentation includes original order, sales receipt, window sticker, and complete maintenance record. EXTERIOR: Very handsome body lines. It is straight, no rust or damage. Lower door and quarters repainted. Exterior color is Saddle Metallic with original White vinyl top. The paint is laid out evenly and the clear is polished smooth and glossy with painted on white pin stripes. All the chrome and trim is beautiful. It includes dealer emblem- Granger Oldsmobile, Kenosha, WI. Nice looking rally wheels with new BFG tires. Original glass is crystal clear. INTERIOR: Unique Osborne Plaid upholstery. Seats are still firm and very comfortable. Door panels are pristine. The upholstery is mint. The dash area is pristine: no cracks, the chrome shines, vents, knobs, heater controls are spotless. Carpet is original and is in excellent shape. ENGINE COMPARTMENT: VIN matching 350 motor runs smooth. It is completely unmolested. All original manifolds, air cleaner, valve covers etc. Even the bits and pieces are all there-heat riser tube, vacuum lines, clamps, duct work etc. The engine compartment is very clean. It has never even been spray painted over and includes factory air conditioning, power steering and brakes. Brake booster has been nicely restored by boosters.com. TRUNK COMPARTMENT: It's a time capsule. Completely untouched original and it looks practically new. Zero rust. It has its factory applied spatter paint and it still looks new. Under the trunk lid has original paint. The spare has never been on the ground. UNDERSIDE: Completely original underside. Aside from very light surface rust on some of the chassis components, this is a rust free underside. The floors are rock solid with no rot at all. It has disc brakes up front, which have about 8000 miles on them. The car still has the original shocks, springs and rear brake shoes. The exhaust system is newer with cat back duals. There is a very slight rear seal drip. But the dip stick never drops below full between oil changes at 2000 miles. Power steering Power disc brakes AM radio Rally wheels Air Conditioning

Another kind of music I like to listen to including in the garage is surf music. The kind of surf music I'm referring to is before all that pretend Beach boy stuff which was hated by all the guys and gals that were surfing before and when I grew up. My dad started in 1927, my mom in 1934 my sister in about 1942 and me, being the midnight mishap in 1954-5 somewhere. When I would accompany my parents to Luaus, barbeques the surf music (and this kind of thing went on into the 60's) consisted of a lot of music from the "Exotica" movement, then it progressed into jazz stuff like Dave Brubeck (like take five), Henry Mancini (the whole Peter Gunn soundtracks) etc. So here is a favorite song and band leader out of the "Exotica" era and it's remastered (around 1964) from an around 1954 album. You will notice the whole tropical far away theme. The one after it is one of the newer cool jazz songs from Mancini. Bruce Brown (maker of Endless Summer) used this song on the original version of the movie Surfing Hollow Days on the opening shots of surfing Rincon a place us surfers used to call "The Queen of the Coast" for its perfect waves. "Exotica!" Henry Mancini - "A Cool Shade of Blue" - Original Stereo LP Queen of the Coast on a good day Santa Barbara County

I remember just like it was yesterday. I was sitting in the barber's chair getting a haircut in 1963-4 when I heard a Jobim song for the first time. I turned around to ask Ski my barber who in the world is that??? Record companies cut this song down as songs could only be around two minutes long those days. The song was done for Joao Gilberto but in the middle of the song his wife Astrud was asked to sing. The record company cut Joaos part out and left Astrud's and Stan Getz portion, it was a big hit. Here is the original long version.

Yeah, Scott Hamilton here on another Jobim song. And of course, the original from 1963 by the master himself on piano. Pure Bossa Nova. Most people have heard this around the world.

Try this one then. Joan Chamorro, a Bass player, Sax player, has a school in Barcelona Spain and teaches talented kids to play American standards out of the 30's 40's and Samba and Bossa Nova out of the 50's, 60's and 70's. This song was written by Antonio Carlos Jobim called So Danco Samba and is played by Rita Pays (14) vocals, and trombone, also the young Andrea Motis on trumpet. 2014 SO DANÇO SAMBA... RITA PAYES JOAN CHAMORRO ...

Sorry guys, when I listen to music, especially in the garage I must get a sense of equanimity. Speak Low by Eliane Elias from Dance of Time - YouTube

Another Mitch and Mitch, a Polish group, playing with an Italian group whose keyboard player is a great multitasker, also only one brass instrument and it's a French horn (one of my favorite sounds from the brass instruments). Note, Mitch is now playing drums instead of bass.

Old standard

My sister had a 77 like this and I should have noticed the fender flair front and rear (not enough of a flair), and also the leading edge of the rear fender has a protective clear cover. My bad, sorry guys

When my car below was new and a daily driver, I would periodically take the rocker molding off to clean and wax behind the rocker molding. I had the same fear of stuff getting behind it, but the rocker was far better shape than was above it. I'm the original owner to the car and I wish I had gone to the Pontiac/Buick dealer and ordered those moldings instead of the one on mine. They are difficult to find today. My Olds A Pontiac Phoenix below, and Pontiac also offered rocker extensions behind the rear wheelhouse

I could never understand how designers had cars built that way. They could have flared the fender at the bottoms of the wheelhouse. One of the reasons I said in my earlier post of adding wheel arch and rocker molding, however the curved in portion of the fender/door extends upward beyond the bottom of the doors and exposes the paint to rocks, gravel etc. There were some cars that had extended rocker molding like 64-67 Bonneville, 75-79 Cadillac Seville, and even some, not all 75-79 X bodies (Omega, Nova, can only get rocker molding, Buick Skylark and Phoenix can get rocker molding and corresponding bottom door molding. That molding fit the doors along with rocker molding to prevent this potential rock pelting. see below;

Buick rain sensor for the 1951 LeSabre convertible top. 1951 The GM Concept Car LeSabre - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DnK5HuTlQA

What does Steve say. He's sold hundreds of them.

I've seen many of these cars and most of them have idiot lights.

Your selection does not meet the criteria! 1. Enough acceleration to be sufficiently agile in town. 2. 80 mph on the highway without strain. 3. Not too big - the lamented PT Cruiser is a good size for my garage, though I don't expect to find something quite that small. 4. Weather-tight. 5. Fairly quiet inside. 6. Air conditioned. 7. Cruise control. 8. Reasonably tight handling in curves, doesn't need to be a sports car. Maybe radials would be enough. 9. Rust resistant. I don't want to be struggling with rotting panels, and unfortunately it seems like a lot of steel was pretty poor in that era. And I'm in the northeast in the winter time. 10. Most service can be accomplished with a set of sockets, a set of combination wrenches, some screwdrivers, and a couple of pullers, brake, and suspension tools. 11. No electronic fuel or ignition management systems. (Might grudgingly accept a Pertronix or the like.) 12. A shape that will be pleasant to look at for a long time. Highly subjective of course. (The PT Cruiser was suppposed to be that.) 13. Some carrying capacity - wouldn't have to be more than a trunk & a back seat. 14. Good availability of parts. I know that can change, but broad part availability now would be good, and I can stock up on consumables. It definitely needs to have hydraulic brakes, and electric wipers, and a good defroster. ☺️ SEE # 10, 11

With a 2.41 rear axle and those high velocity primaries on the QJet (one of the best carburetors ever made) I bet I could get over 25mpg steady state at 65mph. I'm curious and maybe Steve, rocketrader, or Joe would know. Wouldn't the gauge cluster be on that option list??

Yeah, and as EmTee says " I like them both!" my feelings are I would like to have both.

I agree, also, I'm not into pop art graphics.

Buy it! The only thing I would do to it is add rocker moldings and wheelhouse moldings. I like this car! It even has the gauge cluster option!

Not these days you won't. A clean original low mileage 442 is way much more than 20K