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1959 Oldsmobile Showroom Album.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:112.00 USD Estimated At:225.00 - 350.00 USD
1959 Oldsmobile Showroom Album.
Splendid dealer-only ring binder containing full- and part-color glossy sheets, illustrating and describing every aspect of the '59 Olds "models, features, (and) facts." 98, Super 88, and Dynamic 88. Padded black imitation leather, hot-stamped and embossed in pebbled silver, opaque white, and red. Contents 8 1/2 x 11, 116 pp. on heavy enamel text + Dec. 1958 printed letter from Olds General Merchandising Dept., instructing dealers on how to use the album, with replacement leaf bearing corrected specs. Diecut tabs including Equipment and Accessories, Engines and Transmissions, Chassis, Body, Specifications, Other Facts, and Index. Much Space Age artwork and graphic design created for this album, presenting the all-new "Linear Look - so totally new - so typically Olds!," at rakish angles, with admiring men and women. "Roomiest Rocket every built! New Magic-Mirror finish...Famous Jetaway Hydra-Matic...Wide Stance Chassis that produces a new 'Glide' Ride...." Some white paper transfer and three blind impressions on padded cover from another album once resting on top, probably improveable with an ordinary damp tissue, else contents remarkably fresh, clean, and excellent, perhaps never used. An indispensable item for Fifties fans. Scarce, and a memorable automotive year.