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29/07/2024 2:07 pm
1955 was a big year for Detroit and there were many beautiful automobiles that year. My family had both a '55 Pontiac and a '55 Chevrolet. This is Welly's great-looking 1/18 1955 Oldsmobile in gleaming black convertible form.
29/07/2024 3:37 pm
This body and trim separation wears a 2-tone well but all black suits it very well too.
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29/07/2024 5:21 pm
It really does look great in all black or two-tone, as a real car or as a 1/18 diecast replica ! I used to also have a Welly 1/18 '55 Olds Super 89 in two-tone green. It was also a terrific looking car.
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29/07/2024 7:30 pm
Thanks, Bob ! We were fortunate to be around when these first came out as real automobiles.
30/07/2024 4:54 am
I, too, like it as a solid color car! And always LOVE your pics. And there's another well-placed aircraft that made it to the scene!! Bravo Mike! Welly does a nice job on the 1/18th scale cars!
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30/07/2024 11:39 am
Thanks, Tony ! The 1955 Oldsmobile Super 88 looks wonderful in this solid color and can also have a natural trim demarcation for a two-color look, too.
Lol, the plane is a styrene plastic replica of the McDonnell XF-88 Voodoo. Later in the 1950's and 1960's, the F-101 Voodoo II was developed for use by the USAF as a fighter-bomber, interceptor, or reconnaissance aircraft.
If you could pilot the automobile or the aircraft, it gave you that "jet-like" experience ..... and most certainly with an Oldsmobile "Rocket" V-8 engine !
30/07/2024 11:43 am
Thanks, Tony ! The 1955 Oldsmobile Super 88 looks wonderful in this solid color and can also have a natural trim demarcation for a two-color look, too.
Lol, the plane is a styrene plastic replica of the McDonnell XF-88 Voodoo. Later in the 1950's and 1960's, the F-101 Voodoo II was developed for use by the USAF as a fighter-bomber, interceptor, or reconnaissance aircraft.
If you could pilot the automobile or the aircraft, it gave you that "jet-like" experience ..... and most certainly with an Oldsmobile "Rocket" V-8 engine !
Christopher Moroni reacted