[Closed] PICS: My WISH LIST 1:24 die-cast car #13

PICS: My WISH LIST 1:24 die-cast car #13 1958 OLDSMOBILE

Okay, okay, I know this one is not going to be a car that most others are going to agree with, but I like it for the following reasons.

First and foremost, it's an Oldsmobile. I've always wished that the mints would have given us (in 1:24) Oldsmobile's from the entire decade of the 1950's. It was a decade of incredible style and excess with fins, chrome, gadgets, horsepower, and change. And like it or not, Oldsmobile was on the cutting edge of all of it. Who can forget that hidden gas-cap in the taillight or still be mystified by it if you've never seen it? Cars should always be about conversation, and the '58 Olds is one that gets plenty of talk.

The '58 Olds was, like all of General Motors cars, completely restyled and certainly eye-brow raisers when they were unveiled. From Chevy to Caddy, they all had a distinctive look of their own, yet still showing they were all related in the GM ladder line-up.

Being the middle child in the GM litter, Oldsmobile for '58 often takes the most criticism for being big, bulbous, and covered in chrome bumper to bumper.

My second reason for liking this Oldsmobile so much is that my parents owned one. Now whether we like to admit it or not, we are often influenced by what we are surrounded with growing up. Their car was the four-door hardtop Ninety-Eight, and though white has never been a personal favorite color of mine for a car, that white seemed to make the car a gleaming beacon in our driveway.

Despite whether I was influenced by my parents owning it or the fact that as a kid I was in awe of it for being so different from the '54 Olds they had traded in for it, I loved the look of that '58.

When the mints were in their heyday of cranking out one masterpiece after another, I'd always hoped the '58 Olds was going to eventually be one of them. And being honest, 1958 wasn't a model year that the mints gave us a lot of. Sure we got a Chrysler, an Edsel, a Chevy, a Thunderbird, and a Pontiac, but always I
wondered where was a Ford, the Mercury, a Buick, and a Dodge or DeSoto. All would have been welcome on my shelf.

My final reason for wanting the '58 Oldsmobile is that it showed the ever-changing evolution of automobiles. And today, like it or hate it, a 58 Olds will get you talking at car shows or when you see one lumbering down a street.

The mints missed doing this one and it's our loss.

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