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I did not realize this at all until after I bought my '55. The 1st picture is my great grandfather Joseph Frances Joy (Joy Manufacturing - Pittsburgh, PA) had a 1955 98 Convertible. This picture was stamped May 21, 1955 taken somewhere near Pittsburgh, PA. The Dealer emblem is Dormont Olds. Dormont is a suburb of Pittsburgh. The 2nd picture is my Great-Grand Aunt Ivy Joy-Schmidt and her husband Fred taken in 1963 in St. Cloud, FL in a 1955 88 4D Sedan.
My dad and his red-on-red '66 F85 Deluxe with the chrome reverse wheels and spinners and 330cid 4bbl. This car was the predecessor to the '68 4-4-2 convertible he bought that I now have. Try as we may, my brothers and I could not convince him to turn those tires around so the white walls would be on the inside. "I paid extra for those," he would say, "so they have to show"!
Me and my sister bowling green nationals I believe 1980 still have the car and sister 71 royale conv
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Originally Posted by griffey57
My dad loved his 57 olds
Absolutely love all the photos in this thread. Tin Man and Hairy Olds those are such cool pictures. Griffey 57 that 57 picture is also awesome. My grandpa had a 63-64? I have asked all my family. Just one picture. I remember it was a four door. Blue. White top. Blue interior. He eventually got a 70 four door Cutlass. I can't believe that there are no pictures. I will keep looking
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This is my little brother riding his tricycle in the driveway at our grandparents' house. The car was my family's but was parked in their garage so my brother would have room to ride the trike around. 1964 Cutlass convertible. Would absolutely love to have that car now, but it's gone. My father gave it to his mother to drive (that was a sight!) in 1968, and she, in turn, gave it to my uncle, her other son. They had the car until 1970 or '71, and then one day my uncle or someone was waiting to make a left turn and was rear-ended by a dump trunk. No injuries, but the car was totaled. So no more '64 Cutlass.
This photo is probably from 1967.
Here's another sort-of photo of the Cutlass. This photo was taken May 22,1965, and the occasion is my First Communion. Left to right is my same little brother, my mother, my sister, and me. Too bad we were blocking the view of the car!
1985 Firenza. Owned by my father.
If you look carefully, the car in front of the Firenza in the garage is a cream-colored 1981 Toronado. My dad had that car until 1985, so this photo is from late 1984 or 1985.
How's this for a photo? Taken in June 1968 near Yellowstone Park in Wyoming. This is not actually a still photo but rather a screenshot captured from a super-8 movie. It is our 1967 Vista Cruiser, complete with luggage strapped to the roof, caught in a snow squall. Yes, it snowed in June. My mother was amazed.
This is the car my father bought when he traded in the Vista Cruiser. Another screenshot of a super-8 movie. A 1971 Custom Cruiser. He ordered it as soon as it was possible to do so for the 1971 model year, and it was loaded. The car's delivery was delayed by the fall 1970 GM strike. I think this was the first Custom Cruiser to ever arrive at the dealer's lot, and everyone there wanted to see it.
I remember two things about this car. First, my Dad ordered cruise control, but the car "came through," as the dealer put it, without it. The dealership installed the option, but I always remember that the location of the cruise control switch on the left side of the dash was reversed from what it should have been. The other switch was the rear window defogger, and I remember seeing other cars like this with both options, and the two switches were reversed from what they were in our car. No big deal, but as a fledgling car guy, I noticed such things.
Second, my father called this car a "pre-strike" car because, while we didn't get it until after the strike, he figured that it was mostly built before the strike, so the workers were still disgruntled. He said this because, when you closed any of the doors, it always sounded like you were dropping a can of nails. Not the nice, clean, satisfying click of a door closing. But he kept it for two years before trading it on the '73 below.
Photos are from the summer of 1971 or 1972.
Another screenshot of a super-8 movie, this of our 1973 Custom Cruiser. Another family vacation, in April 1973 I believe. My father loved this car. I think it was gorgeous with that white-over-red two-tone paint job and wood grain side. I did most of my learning to drive on this car, although I took my driver's test in our other car at the time, a 1971 Ford Pinto (much easier to parallel park!)
We got a lot of mileage out of luggage racks, and the doors closed just fine on this one.
Back end of the Custom Cruiser.
Another back-end photo, this time with the tailgate down. Those are my father and mother. Both were 43 at the time. How young they were. Wish I could talk to them now.
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