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Did these years MoPar use hydraulic brake light switches? Look around the brake master cylinder.

www.antiqueolds.org and search for 1928-30 advisors. I would think between Butch, Phil and Rick someone will have an idea or know who does.

On Olds forums, especially if a prewar owner joins that group, I post a link to AACA.org and if they've given their location try to steer them to a nearby chapter or region. Whether anyone has done it, I don't know.

www.antiqueolds.org if not already involved in that club and search their advisor list. Marty Roth and Chistech have given excellent input here.

Any 50s-60s Squire- Falcon, Fairlane or Galaxie-based- is an interesting car to own. Country Sedans and Ranch Wagons too. But I dig longroofs. And the Ranchero trucklet variants too.

That's a 53, not a 55. Anything available for 53 passenger car should apply to the Squire except for wagon-specific stuff. The woodgrain outline mouldings may be dicey if they're missing. Driveline present? Flathead is easy as it gets. Keep in mind 53 won't have many creature comforts we take for granted. Fordomatic reasonably common, power steering and brakes not so much though a Squire would be likely to have them. *edit* Looks like a lot of missing or unusable glass that might be hard to source. Is this a Southwest car? As in dry and reasonably clean sheetmetal?

And guess what TVLand is showing today at 5! Hal Smith and Don Knotts hilarious as always! Why can't TV be like this now? Guess that's why TVLand and FETV exist...

I can appreciate that, Padgett. I crunched numbers when I was 49 and figuring living to 70 it would work for me. Past that is gravy. Just hope I'm lucid enough when I'm old that I can still read and appreciate the magazine. "Life Member of AACA" will be part of my obituary.

At least they didn't rot the bumpers like thru the bumper exhaust did! Olds actually ran 1965 Starfire exhaust thru ports on the quarter panel trim. Looked great, but ruinous to the now-unobtainium chromed potmetal after a few years. You don't wanna know what even fair condition (meaning no more than minor pinhole rust) tailpipe extensions go for.

There are also 60, 61 and 65 Mayberry police cars running around NC. The 61's owner would bring it to pre-plague cruise nights. Used to see it in Reidsville NC and Chatham VA frequently. Yeah, I'll watch Andy for the old cars. Me young state trooper cousin watches Andy religiously every day he's off duty. His take is modeling police work after Andy makes life easier for everybody. Then I remind him Mayberry wasn't crazy as hell like things are today. Crazy sometimes, yes- but not like now.

Glad I didn't see that in bright sun!😲 Chevrolet's 3-piece bumpers lent themselves to connie kits better than other makes. Most end up looking like a caboose or a poorly planned house addition. As if a 59 Cadillac or 58 Buick wasn't already over the top enough... It's like I say about a lot of things. Them that like may have their share and mine.

Great analogy!😃 B&L has been cheapened beyond belief too. My 55 year old B&L binoculars are a pleasure to use, along with the magnifier my Grandma used for years. Now they peddle tactical flashlights under license. My 1974 Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses (made by B&L and received as HS graduation gift) are beat all to hell but have served me well. The 2016 pair of polarized Wayfarers I treated meself to as a retirement gift were made by Luxottica and fabrique au Chine after B&L sold the Ray-Ban brand. Now that we've once again swerved all over the road, Antique Automobile has helped keep me sane during the plague. One more benefit to a life membership is I don't have to worry about renewals. DK what effect life membership has on the club financials, but if you enjoy old cars it's worth considering.

Let's not!😃 Friend was a rep out of Rockville MD and said the same thing. The Appalachians wreaked havoc on those light-duty THMs. I never understood HM Division's claim that they couldn't build a transmission that would stand up to a Turbo Buick. They made transmissions that stood up to big cube torque monster engines from all 5 passenger car Divisions and the light duty trucks. Oh. 'Scuse. The financial guys wouldn't LET them build such. Cost too much.😬 Then the warranty claims started rolling in...

Doubtful most gm brass knows what an Oldsmobile is anymore. They had sure forgotten what an Oldsmobile was supposed to be the last fifteen years of the marque's existence.😡 It's what happens when you hire a general manager/VP whose experience was laundry soap and toothpaste, and who believed putting the same formula in different packaging would work with cars the same as it did with laundry detergent. An MBA from an expensive big-name business school doesn't mean a thing if you do not understand your business.

It and GM (!) Turbo HydraMatics were as good as it got in automatics. Efficient and near indestructible. Until the bean counters and their "good enough" mentality got a toehold anyway.

So that's where my dang ratchet went! I have tool-eating cars. But they're finicky. Like Padgett's pooseygatos, they only eat the good stuff, not the cheapies.

Had a friend working in Pontiac dealer body shop when the Fiero came out. Their first Fiero buyer had a flat and when they put the flat in the storage area, they slammed the lid hard enough that it latched, but could not get it back open. Denny had to cut the latch area open and then mold it back in. I remember him saying "I already hate these cars". I think that was about time gm's idiot engineering really raised its pointy little head. The head did not communicate with the tail.

Wonder what their logo will look like? Rampant lion standing on chevrons, or something like gm's new emasculated electric plug?

Heh. I was in Lowe's a few years ago looking at stoves and overheard this from a 40-ish couple looking at washing machines. Salesman, 'scuse, associate was showing them one with a big electronic dashboard and the lady sez " I want something to wash clothes, not fly me to Mars". 🤣 Appliance makers must have got the message because I've seen more and more appliances that are going back to simple straightforward knobs and switches. Anyone remember trying to program early VCR's? And can you imagine what a GM-produced Frigidaire appliance might look like now, if gm (their preference!) still owned the brand?

I'm not really a Buick guy and I can see the potential in that Roadie! Looks complete. The only thing I see that scares me are Michigan plates. That means it's probably been exposed to salt. If underneath is good you have a nice project.

That's the gourmet stuff. The stuff in little bitty overpriced tins. Ours were always fine with whatever brand was on sale that week, dry or wet. One developed a dislike for dry Little Friskies, and another had a thing for vie-eeners (vienna sausage) but the cats ate well. Too well as they lost interest in mouse control. I was trying to check out at the grocery a few weeks back and somehow managed to get behind a guy who had half a cart full of the gourmet cat food cans. They were on sale and guess he was stocking up. Asked the teenage cashier how many cans the guy bought and he said "I quit counting at 80". 🐈

It's funny you said that. The boy's boss often referred to the grease kit as "Brandon's security blanket". I have two lever type guns and two pistol grip type. One of each has a metal tube for the zerk and the others have a flex tube. The flex tubes tend to fall off the zerk more but sometimes they're all that will get into somewhere. A friend had some kind of swivel joint rig for his. I remember the day he bought it and him saying it looked like it would be useful. Last time I saw it, it was stuffed in a toolbox drawer...

My parents didn't influence it that much, but I had two sets of uncles and aunts who did. These folks truly liked and enjoyed cars, whereas to my folks a car was for getting from point A to point B.

It's own parent neutered it. Maybe GM now stands for genital mutilation? The newly minted MBA's insisted GM had too many brands. They didn't have too many brands, they had too many brands that were identical between the nose and the taillights. People wised up to that. Shame the general itself can't.

We had a Lincoln battery grease gun at work and a 6 pak grease cartridge holder to go with it. One of the young mechanics loved that thing and would tote that rig all day, greasing anything that would hold still. Including some things that you didn't want greased. Never saw a thing wrong with an old lever grease gun meself except when the thing would run out of grease when you were about half done.