Charles Phoenix JOYRIDE - 1958 Oldsmobile 98
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- 1958 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight
Oldsmobile's 1958 Ninety Eight takes space age styling beyond the outer limits of optimistic opulence and exquisite elegance !!!.
...And YES, this lavender metallic cosmic carriage is among the finest examples in the known universe.
BEHOLD the GLORY and ENJOY the JOYRIDE !!!...
People always talking about what they would do with a time machine...kill Hitler, Invest in Microsoft...whatever. I'd be back in the late 50's walking down the street just going nuts over all the cars!!!
Me too!! 😂
My dad had a 57 98 brand new.I still have color photos of it.
That's not a Car, it's a work of Art!💕
Charles!! Been missing your vids!! So happy to see this one and I also loved Oldsmobiles... They had a certain aura with all the chrome even along the interior! Massive bumpers and beautiful lines. Yet another glorious JOYRIDE! Thx Charles!!
Another beautiful work of art
I couldn't click it quick enough, where have you been Charles with your amazing car reviews??? Please keep them coming, we appreciate them soooo much.
Well done!
My father had a 1958 Olds Ninety Eight convertible.
I was born in 59. By the time I can remember cars these were getting older but I can remember them on the street. Late 50s and early 60s were the absolute best times for the American auto industry.
He’s baaaaaack!! I know!!!
oh yes… at last…!
Yes, you could spend more money on a Cadillac, Buick Limited, or Imperial in 1958, but why? This 1958 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight Holiday Coupe was the epitome of style, luxury and premium performance at the time. This one has the rare J2 option… giving it 3 - 2 barrel carburetors! A stunningly, beautifully designed car of the time… inside and out. Ever driven one of these beauties? It’s like steering your most comfortable easy-chair and gliding on a cloud. Truly a great find and a rare car these days. Thanks for an incredible throwback video!
Again, as always, I just love the ridiculous amount of chrome on these fine automobiles they’re not just cars. They are automobiles.
I just bought a 58 Oldsmobile
Congratulations ! How much ?
Good to see you again Charles! Wow, you came back with a bang with this one! I too always loved this model. Rolling space-age art. I remember reading that one designer at Olds said "Harley Earl was putting chrome on these cars with a trowel" Hehe. He'd overseen the designs and say "more chrome here...........and there.......and there.........
I'm Dying! Defeated with the amount of chrome troweled on that masterpiece! Back when autos had style, color, personality! It's a lot of chrome & stainless (yet balanced)
This car looks like you could take it on a summer trip across the country in complete comfort. What a car.
What a work of art! Harley Earl told all five GM divisions to lay the chrome on heavy for 1958 and they each certainly did!! This color is absolutely beautiful, and the restoration on this automobile is breathtaking!! Thank you for sharing it with us!!❤
Chrysler had introduced the Forward Look cars the year before - low, simple, glassy finned and looking like they were about to take off. Ford also introduced all new more sculpted and low models. GM knew they were stuck with rounded heavy looking cars for 1958 and all they could do was lay on the chrome. Even the all-new 1958 Chevys and Pontiacs (the others were extensive facelifts) were canned after one year and all-new jet age 1959 GM cars came out. It was such a crash program that all 1959 GM cars shared the same basic body unlike the previous two or three bodies.
Oh yes, the color...
This was Harley Earl's last hurrah. He was all about ornamentation. His replacement, Bill Mitchell, was less about brightwork and rounded shapes, and preferred clean body sides and sharp metal creases. For Mitchell, the bodylines were the "trim".
Back when vehicles also doubled as artwork.......and vehicles were made of STEEL and CHROME, not plastic and paperclips!!!!
CHARLES I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YEARS TO SEE SOMEONE BRING AN OLDSMOBILE TO YOU TUBE . THIS CAR WAS THE SECOND CAR I EVER OWNED. YOUR SO RIGHT THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST LOOKING CARS EVER MADE. THANK YOU
That's not a 'car', it's an automobile.
I love your over the top presentation. This car is a magnificent restoration. With all the chrome, beautiful paint and interior the final cost of this restoration must have been tens of thousands of dollars.
Spectacular car in the best color.
My lustometer is off scale.
While the 59 Cadillac was known as the king of fins, the 58 Oldsmobile was known as the king of chrome. Best color combination for this car. 1958 was a recession year so 1958 production was down. Also GM scrapped the new 1958 car design after just one year (no face lifts) to combat Chrysler Corporation for their new Forward Look cars introduced in the 1957 model year. Good video.
58 Buick limited is the king of chrome
Thank you!
@@tonyfranze6197 Except the lower models have heavier chrome on the sides and tail lights. The Limited was very highly decorated though.
It's almost a carbon copy of the 1958 Buick Limited. GM was famous for doing this. Between Pontiac, Olds, Chevrolet, and Buick, there was a lot of crossovers in model design. Like the Camaro and Firebird, or The Buick Grand Sport, and the Chevy Chevelle. Olds and Buick were the more luxurious versions, of Chevy and Pontiac. The cars in the 50s and 60s were fabulous!
When you look up "Land Yacht" in the dictionary, it should just be a photograph of this car. The head lights and trunk latch are in different zip codes.
Gorgeous car! What I don't understand is the "racy" exhaust rumble in a humongous TANK of a luxury car?
I has a 58 Super 88 two door Hardtop with the J-2 package it floated on the Freeway was a great Automobile also know as The Chrome Mobile!Mine was Cream Color with a Rose Roof!
I got 1969 Oldsmobile Cutlass S
I am rebuilding engine and transmission and the front end
New gas tank
my neighbor had one of these, same color. when they went on vacation i was chosen to start this up a couple times a week plus a 57 ford fairlane 6cyl. pretty good for a 12yr old!
They are the wildest 58's
Only the 59 Cadillac knocks it from number 1 most outrageous ❤❤❤.
I dig the sound of that first generation V8 Olds 371 with the ultra groovy J2 option. The nautical styling is vintage. Very cool. Chrome -The more the better.
Glorious!
Oldsmobile, why were you taken from us?
But still: Glorious!
My first car was my parents hand-me-down 58 holiday 88 4dr. Had the engine rebuilt at 80k miles so it would be reliable for me. It was six years old when I got it from them so I was already in love with it. If there are cars in heaven, I’d like my 58 back please.
Thought you found that Olds 98, that I’ve mentioned!! 😅we missed you at Viva!! 😮
1958 HAD WORTHLESS BRAKES..I REPLACED MANY IN 1958..
I was blessed with the opportunity to BUY a 1960 Olds Super 88, just last year. Would've been my first car. It was a two-door, baby blue with a white top. Unfortunately, it was an 80s restoration that needed to be done again, and they wanted $11,000 for it, though it was pretty rough around the edges. Passed it up. Waiting for a '60 Plymouth.
Wow, adore the color😎💜
Oh keep those videos coming 👍🏾👍🏾
Sincerely Yours Truly
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I wish I could find a woman that appreciates Americana as you do Charles! We love you here in Utah! I knnnnnnow!
GM brought this color back for the 1965 model year, they called it Evening Orchid on Chevrolet and Iris Mist on Pontiac.
It wasn't in the catalog for Buick or Olds but back in those days, with enough cash up front, you could special order any color from the current year on any make you wanted.
Can you imagine having a '58 Buick Limited this color, to pair up with this 98?
I like that car very much. I remember the days when plenty of them were around . Very beautiful autos. But the narrator of this video is so obnoxious! Just talk in a regular type of voice. PLEASE!!!!
It's modern and its mid century, but it's not Mid Century Modern. More like Modern Baroque if not Rococo. If any cars were MidMod then it's the Chrysler products. The 1961 Lincoln is the peak of MidMod design in cars both inside and out - kind of the opposite of the 1958 GM cars.
I love old cars but my pic of all would be the 58 Buick's.....😊
Explosion at the tinfoil factory!
Yep!
🤠👍
Viva o Chevrolet - GM - Bel Air ano 1957. Esse carro do Vídeo, um Oldsmobile 1958, é uma verdadeira Banheira ambulante. Não custava nada terem fabricado um carro mais simples, menor e mais leve. Isso aí deve fazer 04 km com 1 litro de gasolina na estrada a 80km/h.
Nice car! Thanks for sharing... I must ask: Was that one lowered? The ride height looks low, and it's riding hard...
Yes an exquisite beast. A monument to American automotive excess. I know!👑😎👍
Nice, but not enough chrome 😅, joking aside i love it 😍!!!
King of KOOL is back….
That is just beautiful! The last Olds 98 I drove was a ‘77. Like this one much more!
You get hit by this, forget physical therapy. You're road pizza.
Assembled in Lansing, Michigan! 👍🏻👍🏻
Beautiful Charles...It looked more like the 1958 DDL-5053 Heather...I thought the Mountain Haze was darker. Anyway it's a GEM!
That's a beautiful 98!
I love Veronica and the quad backup lamps, not necessarily in that order.
1958 Oldsmobile J2 engine = 312 horsepower NOT 270.
J2 = 3-2 barrel carbs!
Oh my God what a battleship 😮 had a j2 57 conv years àgo 😅
Absolutely beautiful car I believe it's the first ones I've seen
You are certifiably insanely in love with this one!! Omg!! Lol
Do a 58 Bonneville please! My favorite 58 car!
I love your videos!!!!
I'd like to see all of the '58 GM cars all grouped together!
It holds the all all time record of he most chrome ON ANY car ever made. I forget the exact footage but all the chrome here laid end to end stretches for sooo many feet.
When cars were distinctive.
The QUEEN of chrome ! Ivory over mountain haze! Absolutely- beautiful -Stunning,” I know!!! Last time I was in one of these my feet were not able to hang over the seat, of course I got yelled at for getting dirt on the seat! 😝😎✌️🫡🇺🇸
You could get a brand new '55 looking car in'58
To think colourful behemoths like that once ruled the roads.
Nice spot for those window switches! 👍🏼
Fantastic automobile. I never realized so much fine detail went into all the trim. Then again, how many '58 Olds 98s have I seen? This is certainly the first walk around look I've ever seen of one.
The low pitched purr of the exhaust starting at 7:55 is just georgous. Great job on the audio, Charles.
Wow - what memories. My 1st car was a hand-me-down 58 Olds Dynamic 88 in the same body style. The 88 had less chrome, but it still had a ton of the stuff! The interior was not as posh and the 88 was a bit shorter in wheelbase, but it still had that same engine, but not a J2 carb set up. Took me a while to fix up the items resulting from many years of our dad's lack of repairs. I did not know until many years later it was a very rare production model.
It was a great car and I agree it was great looking. It eventually ended up being bought by someone that provided prop cars for the movie industry in California. I could swear I saw it parked at the curb in one of the street scenes in "America Graffiti"!
Most gorgeous car GM ever made.
All the 58 GM lineup takes the cake! This beauty and Buick Limited and Cadillac!
Well, they are decorated like a wedding cake.
My grandmother's neighbor has a Olds 98....I believe it was a 4 door....kinda a cream color ad o recall....came from Riddle Olds - Cadalliac in Martinsville, Virginia....seeing a car of that vintage now Mr. Phoenix is a pleasure. I know....and thanks!
The year of the GM Chromemobiles
Charles, I totally appreciate your enthusiasm for this car. This is one of the most spectacular automobiles you've had on your channel! I love the color! Some folks say that '59 was the most outrageous year for General Motors, but many others believe that '58 holds that honor. Both years had lots of fins and chrome, but I think the '59's had a little more emphasis on the fins, while the '58's had more emphasis on the chrome. Some might say the '58's a little too much chrome, but is that even possible? And the interior of this car is truly out of this world. THANKS!!
Simply a Masterpiece
Beautiful car,I had a 55 olds rocket 88 ,not as dressed up as this,but a great car none the less,paid 175 dollars for it..and kept it for years,,,in looks the 58 olds looks more like a dressed up 58 Chevy.. but much more massive looking....miss my 48 Packard....
There is a special FEEL.....in an Oldsmobile!
Yes. Was never able to pin it down. There was just something about that rocket on & under the hood.
1958 General Motors cars: Longer. Wider. Heavier. More chrome. And even more chrome. Give me some chrome, baby. Not to mention 12 mpg around town. Why are there so few 58 GM cars left? Look at how they changed in 59 and 60. That's why. The chrome plated behemoths looked like the wretched excess that they were. Now collectible, just like a 58 Edsel because they they represent how crazy and impractical GM cars had become. Compare a 57 and 59 Chevy with the 58 models and you can see why so few of the 58 models remain. Crazy man, krazy.
Back in its' day more than one cartoonist suggested putting musical notes on those rear fenders! I think as the '58 Olds made its' way down the used-car market you could get them from JC Whitney for a while.
Oldsmobile was more of a "driver's car" than Buick in this era since it had the original 4-speed Hydra-Matic while Buick's Dynaflow was just a torque converter with no gearset, prioritizing smoothness over power and efficiency - it usurped Plymouth as third best-seller some years in the '50s, but mostly sold to the same sort of people who bought that CR-V in "Oops We Clearcoated The Primer" Gray seen in the background.
Spectacular car and color! Does anyone know the catalogue name for the color?
"Mountain Haze Poly" Ditzler DDL-50504. Ditzler is part of PPG. Was probably offered on other GM cars that year but under different names - that's deffo the case with Olds colours in '59. Not sure that PPG can supply the formulation, but I believe that Sherwin-Williams probably can. Haven't got an SW colour card for Olds in '58, but eBay s/b able to deliver. (Am weighing up doing my '59 Olds in this colour - it's a toss-up between this and "Burgundy Mist Metallic".)
@@Philcopson
58 Buick also had this color. They called theirs Laurel Mist. I had the only one in town.
I KNOW !
I wish the car-styling pendulum would swing back to building cars with even just half of the fabulous flair of this Oldsmobile 98 - or any American cars of the '50s or '60s!
I LOVE CHROME and this one has it in multitudes! Fantastic car! Thanks for sharing!
happy new year to Charles Phoenix i hope you accomplish and achieve everything that you want successfully for 2024.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
That’s one beautiful automobile!👍
Interesting color. I don't know what Oldsmobile called it, but in 1957, Chevy called it "Iris" [the flower].
*FUN FACTS:* There's a beautiful 57 Chevy [Bel Air] Nomad Wagon this same color that's been in at least 2 movies: *_Dead Poets Society_* (very briefly and through the windshield) and *_Flipped_* (it was literally a "co-star").
Technically it is not beautiful but it is awesome !!
Wowser! I remember when they were new.
My iconic Old's of ALL TIME. My heart literally BREAKS when I've witnessed at least 5 of these allowed to deteriorate beyond redemption & picked up with grabs for the crusher - not even 8 years ago - lost forever. 😢
Back in the day, way back (early 60s) my brother had a convertible model, white with a black top, red an white interior, spinner hub caps too. I was fascinated by that model then and still am. Probably my favorite 1950's car.
P.S. It was also a Tri Power car.
I wanted to see that air cleaner come off so we could feast our eyes on that J2 triple deuce intake setup. Oh well ... 🙂
There's a publication that adds up how many of each model car are still registered in the US.
My dad inherited his uncle's '56 Holiday 88 in '70 and sold it to a teenager in '92. We drove it in HS and my sister to work until '84. It's amazing the difference 2 years made.
everyone don't forget to hit the like button. charles you deserve So many more subscribers ! ..... I KNOW ! great video as usual. amazing car!
I appreciate that
When these were new I thought they were missing something when compared to the new Plymouth Fury or 57 Ford, and those seemed to be everywhere. It was a time of awesome cars. The neighbor's '58 Continental Mark iii was another of those weighty, head scratching designs along with my dad's '58 Studebaker (with tacked-on fiberglass fins and quad headlight surrounds.). Our '58 Fleetwood was gargantuan compared to our '56 Buick Special which my sister took to college.
Why didn't you talk about the 4 chrome buttons on the driver's side just under the small window, what are they for???
The buttons are the power window switches. The vent windows are manually operated ✌️
I'm sorry, in my opinion it's one of the most hideously junky of 50's cars - but it DOES give a surge of nostalgia for such an optimistic time - and Charles Phoenix is a HOOT! Now show us a '56 Cadillac or Lincoln & we're talkin' gorgeous.
Beautiful carm. I'm forever stuck in the fifties when it comes to cars
barbarako, it’s a good place to be stuck. So said Ronnie Mildap
Rare indeed it is you can not find a very rare ride like that.
What a gift 🎁 from dad also amazing 🤩 😻, awesome 👏 😎 🤩 restoration work on that ride you cannot get or find amazing work like 👍🏾 that my hats 🎩 🎩 off and two thumbs up 👍🏾 👍🏾 to the individual who restored that beautiful piece of work to pristine condition right down to every last bit of detailed work. A really true Craftsman who deserves all the praise he has done on that Oldsmobile 98 of 1958.
What a beautiful 🤩 😻 😍,fantastic and gorgeous ride to add and have to a collection. Talk about a beautiful weekend ride. Thanks for the joyride Charles in that Antique, Classic and Vintage Ride like that 1958 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight.
They just don’t build,make and manufacture them like that anymore.
Sincerely Yours Truly
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Interrupting Charles mid-word to hawk a POS Nissan guarantees I shall never darken the door of a Nissan door.
HTF did they build something like that. Stamping out the read quarter A tank. Remember that car well. 8 yo loved cars. Great review. The great future ahead. Then JFK gone
My grandparents bought a 58 4dr Eighty-Eight new when I was 3 years old. While it was more modern than our early-50s roundish cars, it soon looked stodgy and outmoded during the early to mid-60s when all those other great cars came out. By 67 my grandfather sold it to his garage attendant for probably very little $$.