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09/05/2017 11:23 pm
Pics : 1950 Oldsmobile 88 MOC
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09/05/2017 11:57 pm
Lovely picture, Denis. Also, the color combination is great, but for your documentation, it's a mistake: on all combinations listed on
1950 Oldsmobile color card, dark tones are upper colors. Check on autocolorlibrary "We will match any car color"
10/05/2017 1:28 am
Beautiful model.
John Merritt
South Lyon, Michigan - USA
10/05/2017 2:45 am
That is beautiful. Really like the color combination.
10/05/2017 2:46 am
Really a special model! But I thought the 1950 Oldsmobile had a one-piece windshield. I'm remembering a neighbor's that did, but maybe it was a '51. Could this have been a mid-year alteration?
10/05/2017 4:14 am
I think that's what it was, David. The Cars of the Fabulous '50s book shows the '50 Oldses with both one-piece and two-piece windshields. I think, but it's just a guess, that the one-piece windshields started on the 98s, then were offered across the line during the course of the year.
Any Olds experts who can offer a more definitive answer?
10/05/2017 4:29 am
pics: David windshields 1950 1950 catalog differentiates models 98 with a panoramic windshield while models 76 and 88 have a windshield in two parts
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10/05/2017 5:25 am
Pics : Dark tones are upper colors you said ?
It seems MOC is not the only to make a mistake
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10/05/2017 5:41 am
I remember in the early 50's that owners of Pontiacs and Buicks sometimes switched from 2 piece windshields to Oldsmobile's one-piece. It seems to have been a fairly easy change. The older divided windshield was an irritant, especially at a drive-in movie!
10/05/2017 6:27 am
In the late 40's/early 50's, MOST 2 tone American cars made at that time had a body in a light color coupled with a dark colored roof. The '49 Buick was one of the very few exceptions. The picture you just posted looks like Palm Green/Sand Beige, which is a 1951 Oldsmobile combination.
10/05/2017 6:55 am
Alex sorry do not agree as many two tones had dark lower body.
10/05/2017 7:20 am
Shel, I assume you are refering to either closed dark convertibles with light colored ragtops or 2 tone hardtops with dark body
& light colored roofs which came out in a larger choice from
1951/52. I can only remember very few in earlier year model
ranges!
10/05/2017 7:26 am
Those MOC early 50's GM hardtops all used those misshapen roofs.
The rear window is too vertical with not enough slope.
10/05/2017 8:33 am
It was not uncommon for buyers to have their dealer or shop spray the roof white to create a 2 tone
One of my uncles had the roof of his all black '50 Mercury sprayed white. Two tones may have been all the rage, but the car definitely lost its cool factor after that.
10/05/2017 8:59 am
Frank, you have come to my point. You could also get your dealer to paint your car in a color combination of your choice at
extra cost, which would not make it an official color combination! Before getting ready to buy a model, I make sure
it's finished in an official combination, which avoids a great deal of disappointment!
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