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Bisa Nitip Bisa Dititp: Car of the Week: 1958 Oldsmobile Fiesta Wagon
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Car of the Week: 1958 Oldsmobile Fiesta Wagon
A wagon keeper, Barrett-Jackson celebrates the "next generation" and an "A" finds its way home in this week's Old Cars' newslstter.
The Ginta's have been living the "wagon" life for over 30 years with their 1958 Olds Fiesta wagon and wouldn't have it any other way.
It wasn't that long ago that station wagons were still the unwanted step-children of the collector car hobby. Relatively few had been kept around, not many guys wanted them, and hardly anybody wanted to restore them.
But times have certainly changed — especially for haulers as stunning and scarce as Bill and Billie Ginta's 1958 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 Fiesta. The New Lenox, Ill., couple were only too happy to give it a home after it was — in a familiar story — not particularly wanted by the previous owners.
Barrett-Jackson is bringing back the Future Collector Car Show (FCCS), presented by Meguiar's during the auction company's flagship Scottsdale Auction.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.– Barrett-Jackson announced the return of the Future Collector Car Show (FCCS) presented by Meguiar's during the auction company's flagship Scottsdale Auction for the second straight year. Held on Sunday, January 21, 2024, on the Polo Field at WestWorld of Scottsdale, this one-day event will be a part of all the excitement during the nine-day Scottsdale Auction, January 20-28. FCCS is a family-friendly, concours-style event featuring vehicles that best represent the future of the collector car hobby, with the goal of celebrating the cars we love today and the future collectibles of tomorrow. Vehicle registrations for FCCS are open now at FCCS.Barrett-Jackson.com.
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Even though Old Cars' headquarters are no longer in Iola, Wis., the publication maintains its ties to the village of approximately 1,200 people and its giant annual Iola Car Show. I often find myself in the rural central-Wisconsin hamlet to meet up with former Old Cars staffers, car show staff and even some previous managers of the publication and its original parent company. One of them is Cliff Mishler, Old Cars founder Chet Krause's right-hand man who was instrumental in starting the Iola Old Car Show in 1972 and getting Old Cars off the ground when it was founded the previous year. It was on a recent visit to Iola that Cliff shared some exciting news related to the history of Ford Motor Co., Old Cars, the Iola Car Show and the village of Iola.
The first new car to be sold in Waupaca County, the county in which Iola lies, was also one of the first products of the Ford Motor Co. — the 605th Ford product, to be exact. This 1903 Ford Model A runabout was one of about 1,700 built, and years after its original sale, it was eventually traded to the local Ford garage in the city of Waupaca. When Oscar Weisman purchased that Ford garage in 1927, the 1903 Model A was part of the purchase. Weisman kept the Ford until 1972, when the late Krause was finally able to purchase it from him. Within a few years of adding the 1903 Ford Model A to his growing collection, Krause had Milt Colden of Clintonville (also in Waupaca County) restore it.
The 2023 Old Cars Price Guide Big Book eBook covers them all. Pricing from 1901-2012 with our industry standard 1-6 price condition grade system giving you the whole pricing picture.
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