I found this Oldsmobile on an old farmstead. I didn’t even realize what it was when I found it. I bought it along with 25 other cars and trucks. It was cool since it was a 2-door, and I figured it was worth holding onto, but at the time, I didn’t actually realize what it was. This car is pretty much complete other than the engine and trans and steering wheel. Since this came off of a Western Kansas farmstead, I am guessing that this car was bought for the engine. Many farmers bought GM Diesel pickups in the early 80’s and those early diesels just weren’t that good. Many of them were replaced with gas engines and since the diesel was based on the Oldsmobile engine, you could drop a gas Olds engine in and replace the underperforming diesel pretty easily. After the engine had been removed, this old car was shoved out into the pasture which is where she sat until I picked it up! This car was found LESS than 10 miles from the Dealership that sold it new!

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I bought my first car in Nov. 1967 for $15. It was a Black 1957 Oldsmobile Super 88 Sedan. My Girlfriend (now wife of 52 years) and I  went everywhere in “our” ’57, to NYC, beaches, drive-in movies until July of 1969 when I left for Navy boot camp. Before I left I bought a 1963 Nova for my girlfriend Sue with a brand new “Earl Scheib” $19.95 paint job. She wanted the ’57 Olds but it needed too much work. 

We married the next year while I was in the Navy. She never forgave me for not giving her that Olds and reminded me every year. After 4 children and my retirement from the USPS in 2008, she bought us a Red/White 1957 Oldsmobile 88 Holiday Sedan (no post) as our memories car ( reliving old memories as well as making new ones ). We also bought a 1962 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 Convertible in 2013… In season we go to cruise nights almost every night and car shows on the weekends. 

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By Bill McCleery

The 1956 Oldsmobile 88 Holiday sedan proudly driven to car shows and parades by Norris and Phyllis Teague is the same car they drove during their honeymoon in the summer of 1963.

“This car holds a lot of memories,” said Phyllis Teague, 73. “I remember it from the time it was new.”

It was her father, Everett Spry, who first purchased the four-door hardtop on April 3, 1956, for $3,629.30, from the Rhodes-Hartzeld dealership in Muncie, Ind. That’s the same city in which Norris and Phyllis Teague, and the car, still reside.

Borrowing the bride’s father’s car, the Teagues took their honeymoon trip to Holiday World, a resort community in Santa Claus, Ind. They chose that destination over more exotic options, the couple recalls, because of financial considerations. Ultimately, they were quite satisfied with their choice, they said, and 49 years of wedded bliss have proved they have learned the ingredients of a successful marriage, as well.

If the honeymoon is a highlight of the car’s history, Phyllis Teague also recalls a low light.

She was 17 and a senior in high school, driving a friend home from a school event. The night was dark, and she missed seeing a stop sign. The miscue resulted in a fender-bender with another vehicle. Phyllis felt terrible, but when she told her father the news, he took it in stride.

Phyllis Teague’s first car once she graduated from high school was another 1956 Oldsmobile, a turquoise-and-white two-door hardtop. She is unsure what became of that car.

After Everett Spry died in 1966 at age 65, his widow, Nola Spry, kept the four-door Olds. She passed away in 1990, at which time the car went to Phyllis.

The Olds was in solid shape but well-weathered and needed some work when the Teagues took possession. Norris Teague replaced a fender, got the car repainted in 1993 and had the engine rebuilt in 2002. He added power steering and some optional interior lamps from another 1956 Oldsmobile donor car he purchased. Some of the car’s chrome trim is original, he said, and some has been re-chromed.

“This car was a ‘Sunday car,’ driven to church on Sundays and was garaged Monday through Saturday during the week,” Norris Teague said, adding that Everett Spry had the use of a company car for weekday commuting. “It presently has 97,800 miles on the odometer.”

The Teagues drove the car to Lansing, Mich., in 1997 for a celebration of the 100th birthday of Oldsmobile. There were 2,400 specimens of Oldmobiles at the event, Norris Teague recalls, but only 12 from the 1956 model year.

The car and its 324-cubic-inch Rocket V-8 continue to bring pleasure to the Teagues, he said, adding that the automatic transmission still functions perfectly despite never having been rebuilt.

“We enjoy driving in many parades in Ohio and Indiana,” he said. “This car is in excellent driving condition.”

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