1940 Oldsmobile with Hydramatic

One of the interesting vehicles at the King's Garden Retirement Home Cruise seen was a 1940 Oldsmobile with the newly introduced Hydramatic automatic transmission. This car is a 'survivor' car, the chrome has been redone in spots, and it does have new paint. The interior is original and the owner has all the brochures that went with this time capsule. The mileage is very low too. Underhood is mostly original too. The spare is original as well.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• 1940 Oldsmobile
• Old cars
• Cruise for old cars
• King's Garden Retirement Home
• Charity cruise
• Hydramatic
• survivor car
• spikedpunk
• chrome
• tailfins
• wide whitewalls
• old fashioned car

[tbnagle]

Fond memories: I, too, had a 1940 Olds with hydramatic while in high school in the late 1950s. It was a wonderful car, completely reliable and in great condition, but was perhaps a bit slow :-) when pulling away from a stop light.

[spikedpunk]

@tbnagle To think, this was an everyday car back in the time, another reliable work horse. Yes, they could be pokey, the in-line 8's were not known to be the most wild of performers. 

[JSneaker]

What a beautiful car, I noted the owner told the kid you have to pump the accelerator to start it! It is weird-such an old car without a clutch pedal!

[spikedpunk]

@JSneaker It was very unusual to see this. Many dealer service mechanics at the time, when these cars had to be moved, froze like cats on a glass table when they saw only two pedals.

[fjp912]

Gorgeous car. That handbrake handle looks uncannily like the one used on Corvairs, just mounted at a different angle.

[spikedpunk]

@fjp912 It is so beautiful in person indeed. Many cars used a hand brake as such for a long time, when a hand brake was just that.

[JSneaker]

@spikedpunk OH WOW!

[spikedpunk]

@Bl4zz3r You are welcome, I try to bring the cars not too often seen as this for others to see.

[LordKorlik]

@spikedpunk you now me all to well howie

[Bl4zz3r]

awesome thanks for sharing :)