victorialynn2 Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 I had never heard this term. Is this real? It was on a menu at a diner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloo Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 Kickdown, aka Passing Gear. It is downshifting for faster acceleration. I have never heard it called "whirlaway". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD in KC Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 (edited) Never heard of 'Whirlaway' but it apparently was a term used by Oldsmobile back in the day. I don't remember it at all. Photo Credit: gmheritagecenter.com Edited November 2, 2018 by JD in KC adding photocredit (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty_OToole Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 That's the kind of advertising they did back then. If you didn't balk at 'Futuramic Oldsmobile' or 'Hydra- Matic Drive' why draw the line at 'Whirlaway'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHuDWah Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 19 minutes ago, Rusty_OToole said: That's the kind of advertising they did back then. If you didn't balk at 'Futuramic Oldsmobile' or 'Hydra- Matic Drive' why draw the line at 'Whirlaway'? Yeah, "Whirlaway for thrills" of "a surge of power as if you were jet-propelled." ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 3 hours ago, Rusty_OToole said: That's the kind of advertising they did back then. If you didn't balk at 'Futuramic Oldsmobile' or 'Hydra- Matic Drive' why draw the line at 'Whirlaway'? And you could be either a 'Celebrity' or have a 'Holiday', with an Oldsmobile, unless you owned both a hardtop and a sedan. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketraider Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 Hee-hee. Oldsmobile was good at their marketing hype. It made my family buy a bunch of 'em! And then they found the hype wasn't necessarily hype, but lived up to it! "Whirlaway" must have worked. By the 50s more than 95% of Oldsmobiles had HydraMatic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trimacar Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 My father worked for a small company in central Louisiana, and started buying company and personal vehicles in the late 1930's. Many of the company vehicles were Oldsmobiles, and all his personal cars were Olds. I have a picture of him being presented the keys to a 1956 Oldsmobile Holiday coupe, the 25th Oldsmobile he'd bought from our hometown dealer. He continued buying Oldsmobiles up into the 1970's. One day, he and my mother were discussing a new car (replacing the 98 in the carport), and out of nowhere she said "I want a Lincoln". That was the first break. My first two new cars were a 1969 (high school graduation present) and a 1973 Cutlass (college graduation present to myself). Always had a soft spot for Olds, and wife now wants a mid-50's Olds or Pontiac, so it's not going away! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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