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D Yaros

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  1. 7 hours ago, kgreen said:

    Good eyes John, is that also another below the sign stating Buick Special only $2452?  The photo is just so full of "stuff" my lazy eyes passed over the details.

    Thanks for the arrows.  Hard to spot otherwise.  This photo had to be taken with a high power telephoto lens, as evidenced by the compression (essentially the phenomenon of background elements appearing larger than they actually are – hence the scene becomes “distorted” since those background elements appear closer and larger than they are in real life.).

  2. The short answer, as already stated, is YES! 

     

    Some guys have been known to do the restore themselves.  There are plenty of YouiTube vids out there on this.  I am certain that a google search on automobile steering wheel restoration will yield more info than you care to/can read!

  3. On 8/6/2018 at 9:35 AM, Ben Bruce aka First Born said:

    I could NEVER understand why the '57 was so popular and this one as not. 

     

      Beautiful. IMO, the best looking of all '58 cars.

     

      Ben

    I was a "young whipper snapper" back in fifty & eight.  All of GM's 1958 offerings were not viewed kindly at the time.  Why?  They represented a very radical change from the 55 through 57 models.  The earlier ones had straight, clean, crisp lines to them.  The 1958 models appeared heavy, bulbous and curvy.  Then there was the fact that in 1958 they went berserk with regard to chrome trim.   Wherever it could be done chrome trim was installed.

     

    The level of public acceptance for 1958 designs is attested to by the fact the body styles were a 1 year only design.

     

    I have to admit that a mere 60 years later I do find the 1958 GM offerings to be more appealing than they were at the time.

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  4. Pic #1 has to be circa 1938 and was taken at the Arrow Brook Golf Club:

     

    Arrow Brook Club Becomes NYC' s Summer Cit y Hall T H K old Arrow Brook Country Club will house New York City'a city hall this summer, according to a recent announcement by city officials. Negotiations for purchase of the property have been going on for several months, and was decided on because of its proximity to the grounds for the New York World's Fair next year. The building, a three-story wood and stucco structure built nine years ago, stands on a rim of a bluff with a view of the entire fair grounds and Cedar Grove cemetery. An 18-hole golf course adjoining the building will later be graded and added to the World'H Fair parking space. The grounds and golf course occupy 100 acres in area, with a 3,600-foot frontage on the fair grounds. The Mayor's office and a room for the Board of Estimate meetings will be located on the second floor, and the ground floor, which is now chiefly a large locker-room, will be set up as a reserve police precinct.

     

    http://archive.lib.msu.edu/tic/golfd/article/1938jun40.pdf

     

    ==>  I have been advised the pictured Buick in Photo #1 is a 1940.  That being so,  the photo  cannot be circa 1938.  Duh! 

  5. On our block when I was a kid, and even into the early '60s, there were two brothers who lived next to one another who both drove Ford Model A's.  One also had a Kaiser.  The Kaiser was always garaged, whereas the Model A was always parked on the street.

     

    Our house was always nothing but Oldsmobile; from 1948 through 1967.

  6. As a kid my second car was a turquoise & white '55 Bel Air 2-Door Hardtop with the 265.  The  powerglide was yanked in favor of a  3-speed manual with a Hurst floor shift.  It sported a 59 Chevy Steering wheel, lake plugs, a mean rake and 1955 Pontiac station wagon tail lights.

     

    Ah, those were the days!

  7. I am constantly surprised to learn of the number of cars that have what I call a "rolling ribbon" speedometer; like on the '59 Electra, above.  Oldsmobile used it from 1959 through 1962.  Oldsmobile called it the "Safety Spectrum" speedometer.  At one time I thought it was unique to Oldsmobile.  Ah, naïveté!

     

    I wonder how accurate they are?  I suspect not very.

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  8. 21 hours ago, AURktman said:

    I would like them, but not yet at that price.  Maybe when its close to being finished.  I do want bright headlights, what are the best bang for the buck?  

     

    I was looking in a catalog and found this, I wonder if this is the decal that goes on the spot on the radiator cover. Not sure why that decal is bugging me so much, I have about 250 other things that are significantly higher priority than that silly sticker.   There is a long sticker that goes vertical in the center.  I've also figured out I'm missing the fan shroud.  Time to go on a treasure hunt nationwide.  

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    Eldon, any modern day replacement headlight will be an improvement over the 50 + year old ones.

     

    I see someone else has provided a pic of the long, narrow, rectangular CAUTION sticker that goes on the middle of the radiator bracket.  I seriously doubt that there would be an oil related decal from the factory in the spot you indicate; though the shape is indeed similar.

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