Riding In A 1937 Oldsmobile
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Here I am taking a ride in this beautiful all original 1937 Oldsmobile at Automobile Driving Museum in El Segundo, California. Originally, a 1987 Mercury Colony Park Station Wagon was supposed to be one of today's available cars of November 8, 2015, but it broke down and the '37 Olds took over.
Suicide doors were called that because if you accidentally opened it when the car was in motion the wind would send it flying back and if you were holding onto the door handle it could easily pull you clear out of the car into the road where you could get run over. The wind can't pull on a front-hinged door in the same way.
A holdover from horse-carriage days, rear-hinged doors let a lady exit a car daintily by leading with her shapely leg, rather than emerging buttocks-first. To enter, one “backed” demurely into
the seat rather than plopping into it sideways, as we do today. Studebaker retained
“suicide” doors until 1952!
Then Lincoln brought em back in 1961, etc.
Dad bought a 1937 Oldsmobile in 1967, when I was 4 years old. It was almost like new, because he bought it from the elderly widow of the original owner. He died fairly young, and it was in a closed garage, when he died, only a few years after he bought it and his widow just never bothered to sell it, although she did crank it up & take it in for it's yearly state inspection, but otherwise, didn't use it. It was a 2 door coupe. My fraternal twin brother & I loved to sit on the fold down jump seats in the back. My mother drove herself to the hospital in it to give birth, to my youngest brother in 1968. Even in 1968, it was pretty unusual to see a 9 months pregnant woman driving up to Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta and getting out of a 1937 Oldsmobile! Dad sold it in 1969, when we moved. By then, I was still not quite 6 years old, but I still knew, that it was a special car.
Back in the 1930's GM still shipped Oldsmobiles knocked down in crates. In 1946 My grandfather purchased a 1936 Olds four door still in crates and never assembled. He was a master mechanic...and, he assembled the car. So, it was "brand new" in 1946, and so was I. He drove it until about 1953 when it passed into our family. It was still a very solid car. And, as for the car blankets...yes, I have shivered along in the back of a 1936 Olds in the winter. A couple of years later my Dad purchased a brand new 1955 Olds 88.
“Knocked down” - seriously? Man! What would the crate weigh? Did that mean things like the fenders, doors, glass, wheels, roof, etc. were individual pieces? Surely the engine came assembled(?). If you think about it, there really wasn’t all that much to these cars back then. This wouldn’t have been a weekend garage project - needed a winch?
@@OleHippy Knocked down was pretty much exactly that! He bought the crates from someone who had the car for 10 years and never assembled it. So, for my grandfather this was a "new" car. He was a very skilled mechanic-well known in the area--and had a well equipped garage.
I had a 1938 Plymouth when I was 15 years old in Long beach, Calif. I am 87 now.
Dadgumit we got another blow out. A Christmas story 1983 based in 1939
Joey Pincombe Ooooooooohh Ffffuuuuuuuuuuuddggee!!!!! It would frost up in the middle of the equator!! Dad was an Oldsmobile man. Spare tires were tires in the academic sense: they were round and they were once made of rubber. YOU’LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT!!!
Nice car. Something like Ralphie's old man drove.
One and the same!
The "F" word one !
@@davidpancerev9658 Only it wasn't fudge.
Question: would it have been the norm (when the car was brand new) to hear the whine of the transmission shifting so loud in the interior of the car? My late father had some cars from the 1950s and I never remember the three on the column standard making that much noise.
Straight cut gears...
@@BlindTom61 so are you saying it was normal?
Very normal. And so majestic ! Fifties cars perhaps better insulated sound wise.
so...does the car has an H pattern like the three on the tree?
Yes, the 3 Speed Floor Shifter is exactly the same as the Column Shifter
H-pattern.
Was this a 6 or 8 cylinder model?
If I can remember, I believe it was a 8 cylinder
I think it's a 6 cylinder. The straight 8 had a different grill.
It’s a six cylinder. The grille was coarser than the eight.
Gosh, the tranny sounds so loud. Is that just an artifact of the mic sensitivity?
My ‘36 Cadillac was nearly the same. I discovered that in the 1930s, they used a much heavier gear lube than 90 weight which was common post-war.
I got some 140 wt. and it quieted down considerably.
THIS DRIVER HAS NO IDEA OF WHAT HE SPEAKS ABOUT THIS CAR !