Does anyone know where I can fing out how many 1957 olds 98 2dr Holiday coups there are.

 

Sorry, I don't know.
If I had to guess, 2 or 3 thousand

 

Dont go by a guess that someone dosent know.. Oldsmobile built 17,791 2 door 98 coupes for 1957

 

Is there anyway to find out how many are on the road today.

 

 

If you contact automotive information clearing house in California, they will tell you how many are still registered total and how many are registered in one state. This will cost you a fee of about $50.00 more or less. For example total of '57 98 converts= about 48 jsmith

 

one of those 57 98 convertible cars is here in my town. it is a very beautiful car. i would hate to see he bill from the chrome shop.

 

In our chapter there are two 1957 98 two door hardtops and one convertible. I would guess that there are several serviors as I see them from time to time on E-bay and craigs list.

Post some picture of yours please.

 

There was at least one and I think there were actually two 57 98 convertibles in the movie Great ***** Of Fire about Jerry Lee Lewis (one of the best rock & rollers ever). There is a scene where he Jerry Lee (Dennis Quaid) tosses the keys to his cousin Jimmy Swaggart. I have not seen this movie in years and now that I am thinking about it I believe it is time to order it from Netflix. Does anybody else remember this scene? I am sure those cars are still around today and wonder who they belonged to.

 

Would you have contact info (web site, address, ph.?) for "automotibve information clearing house?" I would like to get this info for my car.

Thanks,

 

Automobile survival rates are pretty standard. I read once that you can figure on about 1% of original production remaining after so many years. Most are scrapped over time, which is not surprising, but once you get down to the low numbers, those that survive are being kept for a reason, such as by a collector, and they don't get scrapped.

Now this number is not exact for sure, but it gives you a rough idea. If, as 59-59-59 says, there were 17,791 '57 98 Holiday Coupes built originally, 10% of that is 178, so just round that to about 200, and then stick a plus-or-minus 100 (50%) on that. So you can probably safely assume that somewhere around 100 to 300 of these are still around today.

This doesn't mean they're all registered. There might be some in a barn, etc. This number is just intact vehicles not in a junkyard.

 

Take a look at these.

http://imcdb.org/vehicle_35896-Oldsmobile-98-1957.html

 

There shouldn't be any on the road !! It's too darn cold.... My buddy has half of my heater at his shop to clean up and refinish the shell before I re-install it...I have a coupe that is licenced for the road and another parts coupe that will never fly again come on SUMMER