| 1950 Olds F-88 Concept car fetches $3M! - Click HERE for Original Thread |
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| That was quite the car in person. I was at Barrett-Jackson this year and it's hard to describe what being at the auction was like when it sold, considering the day before it was a huge deal when a Hemi Cuda sold for $250,000 just over the bidders fee on that car. Apparently the guy who bought the car owned the discovery channel, or so I heard from a few people down there. When I talked to the owner of the Olds he said he would have been happy to get $500,000 for it, guess he underestimated just abit. |
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| oldraven |
Very cool car. One of the Staff members over at the Wolfpack got to see it when he went to B/J with his dad. Lots of pics here. http://www.wolfpackcc.com/barrett-jackson/
That Olds is pretty much a GenI Corvette with Olds styling. It even has a fully fibreglass body, same 250hp V8. Harley Earl was the original king of brand management. |
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| Customline |
| Actually it's not the same engine as the GenI 'Vettes. The vette never had a V8 until 1955, that's the main reason the F-88 never went into production. Olds had a V8 but Chevy didn't, and head office wanted it to be Chevy's showcase car and not be outdone by Olds. Just imagine if Oldsmobile had produced America's first sports car, it might have turned into a larger performance brand and may still be around. |
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| THUD |
Well speed channel had a nice bit on that car and it's history and it has been through alot of shit and owners and all really quite kool how the car came about.
What I like is that it is what spawned the corvette looks and styling....it would be unit 0.
Now I can't quite get why the fuck some one would pay 3.what eva million on it other than to show off how much disposable cash they got cause anything over 1.2 million to me is just showing how far you can piss to the other boys :beer: .......ahhh crap now every other person who has a concept car will be bringing them out to try and cash in on the glory hole. :stickpoke :omg: |
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| oldraven |
| It didn't spawn the Corvette styling. The Vette was already in production by '53. Supposedly, the Jag XK120 was the inspiration. |
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| THUD |
| hmmmm I maybe got me wires crossed I just knew that covette divsion took many of Olds ideas about the car and 3 months later the V8 and a few things ended up in the vette so I thought it came firstish still a cool car though.....looks like its got big fish lips trying to kiss some thing. |
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| oldraven |
It probably all happened at once. Harley Earl was a genius, or at least, he knew how to look like one. :p GM had the design teams for each division locked away from one another. The only person to see what was going on between them was Earl himself. He would see something Buick was working on, and go to Caddilac and say, 'let's try this', and it would be a hit. He would get all of the credit, and those design ideas would never make it on the cars of the originators.
That would explain why the Vette got the Olds' power train in the end. Like I said, the king of brand management. |
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