Posts Tagged: Year Model
Guessing the year on a prewar Oldsmobile convertible is trickier than it looks: the drop-top body and the straight-eight engine collectors often look for did not actually arrive on the same model in the same year. Here is how to tell a real Series 60 from the bigger, straight-eight-powered senior cars, and why so few of these soft tops survived to be argued over today.
This black widebody coupe, with its flared fenders and hood vents, was posted purely as a guessing game: name the year and model, then rate it. Widebody and flare kits like this one trace back to the exotic-inspired custom builds of the late 1970s and ’80s, when builders reshaped stock bodies to look more aggressive and race-ready. Take your best guess before scrolling further to see how close you got.
A close crop of chrome grille and quad headlights is all this guessing game gives away, and that’s plenty to start an argument among Thunderbird fans. Ford reinvented the ‘Bird’s face almost every generation between 1955 and the early 1970s, from sports car to four-seat luxury cruiser. Can you place the exact year from the grille alone?
