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In 1955 a miniature automobile assembly line display named A Car Is Born was constructed for one of the Futurliners. [9] A display titled Our American Crossroads was also used in 1955. [ 10 ] This display was narrated by Parker Fennelly and featured a complicated animated diorama that transformed to show progress in road and infrastructure ...
List of Oldsmobile vehicles. Add languages. Add links. Article; Talk; ... 1956 Golden Rocket; 1957 F-88 Mark II; ... 1989 Tube Car; 1990 Expression; 1991 Achieva ...
Pages in category "Cars introduced in 1956" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. ... Oldsmobile Golden Rocket; Opperman; P. Porsche 645; R.
The Series 60 "Special" is a full-size car made by Oldsmobile from the 1939 through the 1948 model years. It was their entry-level model using the GM "A" body platform, giving Oldsmobile an entry-level product with more standard features that would be optional on Chevrolet and Pontiac vehicles using the same platform.
The Oldsmobile Golden Rocket was a two-seater [5] show car built by Oldsmobile for the 1956 General Motors Motorama.The radically styled fiberglass concept, designed to resemble a rocket on wheels, was revised several times and displayed at various other auto shows, [6] most notably at the 1957 Paris Motor Show where it generated much fanfare, 18 months after it was first revealed. [2]
Oldsmobile (formally the Oldsmobile Division of General Motors) was a brand of American automobiles, produced for most of its existence by General Motors.Originally established as "Olds Motor Vehicle Company" by Ransom E. Olds in 1897, it produced over 35 million vehicles, including at least 14 million built at its Lansing, Michigan, factory alone.
The Oldsmobile 88 (marketed from 1989 on as the Eighty Eight) is a full-size car that was sold and produced by Oldsmobile from 1949 until 1999. From 1950 until 1974, the 88 was the division's most profitable line, particularly the entry-level models such as the 88 and Dynamic 88.
The car's success was partially by accident; in 1901, a fire destroyed a number of other prototypes before they could be approved for production, leaving the Curved Dash as the only one intact. As workers were attempting to move the prototypes out of the burning building, they were only successful at rescuing one prototype, the Model R Curved Dash.