1959 Oldsmobile 98 Holiday Four-door Flat-Top Hardtop,394, Power! LOOK
1959 Oldsmobile Other 98 Holiday Four-door Flat-Top Hardtop
1959 Oldsmobile 98 Holiday Four-door Flat-Top Hardtop Description1959 Oldsmobile 98 Holiday Four-door Flat-Top Hardtop
Two-tone Cardinal Red over Polaris White exterior (code CLL) and two-tone gray cloth and ivory leather interior (code 386) Debut year for the Rocket 394 CID V-8 engine Jetaway Hydramatic four-speed automatic transmission with 3.42 gearing New tires Power steering, power windows and two-way power front seatLooking for your own Merry Oldsmobile? Come by MotoeXotica Classic Cars and check out our top of the line 1959 Oldsmobile 98 Holiday Four-door Flat-Top Hardtop. This particular example was built at GM’s Kansas City, Kansas factory. This is a very original car overall with a high quality respray that is show worthy.
Finished in Cardinal Red over Polaris White (code CLL), this car’s paint and trim are in overall excellent condition. The wraparound windshield, backlight and other windows are all clear and intact while the car’s lights present overall very well, too, with parking lights separating the quad headlights, European-style sideview mirrors on the fenders and the torpedo-like taillamps incorporated into the tailfins as part of “The Linear Look.”
This car rolls on wide whitewall tires, American Classics, size P235/75R14 and those tires are wrapped around steel wheels topped by factory wheel covers that echo the car’s “jet age” style. The bodywork is straight and solid, the engine bay is tidy, the battery looks fresh and the bumpers are a tight fit.
Beneath that expansive hood is a 394 CID Rocket V-8 engine, in its first model year. It is mated to a Jetaway Hydramatic four-speed automatic transmission and a 3.42:1 rear end. Driver convenience features include power steering, power brakes, power windows and a two-way power front seat.
Inside, the car’s two-tone gray cloth and ivory interior (code 386) is in overall very good condition. The bench seats are in good order; the rear even sports a folding center armrest. The black carpet and the gray and white instrument panel are in similar condition to the seats. The headliner show some wear but the white, two-spoke steering wheel with its deep “V” center looks fantastic. The inner door panels, mirror glass and shifter are all in good condition. Completing the interior is a factory AM radio and clock, which still ticks!
The Oldsmobile 98 (sometimes spelled Ninety-Eight after 1958) was Oldsmobile’s full-size flagship model produced from 1940 until 1996. The name — reflecting a “Series 90” fitted with an eight-cylinder engine — first appeared in 1941 and was used again after American consumer automobile production resumed post-World War II.
For 1959, the Oldsmobile lineup was completely redesigned. However, unlike other GM makes, Oldsmobile continued to use a full perimeter frame, instead of the GM X-frame. The 98 shared its appearance with the Oldsmobile 88. Oldsmobile stayed with its top series format by offering four body styles on an exclusive 126.3-inch wheelbase. Standard equipment included oil filter, turn signals, air scoop brakes, Safety Spectrum speedometer, rocker panel moldings, special emblems, parking brake light, sponge vinyl headliner, deep twist carpeting, electric clock, wheel trim moldings, power steering, power brakes and Jetaway Hydramatic Drive. Interiors were selected from leather, Moroccean or cloth in different colors. The 394 CID, the largest first generation Rocket V-8, was used from 1959 until 1964.
The 98 shared its General Motors C-body platform with Buick and Cadillac. As it was the top-line Oldsmobile, the series had the most technologically advanced items available, such as the Hydramatic automatic transmission, the Autronic Eye, an automatic headlight dimmer and Twilight Sentinel (a feature that automatically turned the headlights on and off via a timer, as controlled by the driver), and the highest-grade interior and exterior trim.
In 1959, Oldsmobile models were completely redesigned with a rocket motif from front to rear, as the top of the front fenders had a chrome rocket, while the body-length fins were shaped as rocket exhausts which culminated in a fin-top taillight. The 1959 models also offered several roof treatments, such as the pillared sedan with a fastback rear window and the Holiday Sport Sedan, which was a flat-roofed pillarless hardtop with wraparound front and rear glass. The 1959 models were marketed as “the linear look” and featured a bar-graph speedometer which showed a green indicator through 35 miles per hour, then changed to orange until 65 miles per hour, then was red above that until the highest speed read by the speedometer, 120 miles per hour. Power windows were available on the 98 models, as were two-speed electric windshield wipers with electrically powered windshield washers.
Competition to this Oldsmobile in 1959 included Buick’s Electra 225 sedan, Cadillac’s Sedan de Ville, Chrysler’s Saratoga sedan, DeSoto’s Fireflite sedan, Lincoln’s Continental Mark IV Town Car and Mercury’s Montclair sedan
This car is currently located at our facility in St. Louis, Missouri. Current mileage on the odometer shows 53,381 miles. It is sold as is, where is, on a clean and clear, mileage exempt title. GET OUT AND DRIVE!!!
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VIN: 599K05663
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- Make: Oldsmobile
- Model: Other
- SubModel: Flat Top
- Type: Sedan
- Trim: 98 Holiday Four-door Flat-Top Hardtop
- Year: 1959
- Mileage: 53,381
- VIN: 599K05663
- Color: Red/White
- Engine size: 394
- Number of cylinders: 8
- Fuel: Gasoline
- Transmission: Automatic
- Drive type: RWD
- Interior color: Gray/White
- Vehicle Title: Clear Want to buy? Contact seller!
