Custom. A lot of $ in this one. 455-Powered 1957 Oldsmobile Golden Rocket 88 Fiesta for sale on BaT Auctions - ending December 11 (Lot #93,070) | Bring a Trailer
Lots of money tied up into that one. I don't even want to think how much the steering setup cost with those linkages... Sure looks nice though, although I wonder what's up with people buying cars and only owning them 6-12 months and putting 150 miles on them? (Yes, I know they're most likely flippers\dealers)
The wagon probably outlived its owner and the widow left it up to others to off it? I see alot more there, than the current 51 grand bid
Lots of $$$ put into this one........ My computer's color reading might be off. I see a bit of 'copper' in the dark color in just a few of the photos shown. In most of the pics, the color looks red or maroon. By the way, the wagon's on the central California coast, in Paso Robles, about 30 miles north of San Luis Obispo.
Copper flakes in paint are usually coarse. Finer flakes are, however, possible. I have plenty sitting at the bottom of some transmission oil of which I've drained over the weekend
Evidently, not in this case. It seems, he doesen't want any future owners driving through wet weather?
It's lovely looking car. I have to say though, the steering wheel looks entirely out of place, even a bit silly.
Here is how copper flakes look, after having been finely ground off through normal clutch wear. As you may notice, the flakes appear irregular. For those who haven't have worked with copper and bronze yet, cutting, tapping and drilling these metals is not as easy and as uniform as when one works with steel, despite both being softer than the latter metal. In fact, these non-ferrous metals can be quite unruly. Therefore, I doubt the likeliness that copper was finely ground for obtaining the uniformly-sized flakes suitable for high quality paint. The paint on this Olds might just be of a normal metal flake type of which the red basic color gives the illusion that these flakes could be copper. Another possibility would be to electrochemically anodize normal ferrous metal flakes with copper plating. A method for keeping these flakes in suspension, in order for the process to be made possible, is beyond imagination: This is the donor clutch of which supposedly has copper plates sandwiched in between non-ferrous plates. I would imagine that copper would be too soft and that these are actually bronze?:
