1950 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight

4-DOOR

303 V-8

HYDRA-MATIC

509K14061

Clear

Gasoline

*****BARN FIND***** 1950 OLDSMOBILE 98 DELUXE 4 DOOR SEDAN 509K14061 66,715 MILES This 1950 Oldsmobile 98 Deluxe 4 door sedan has 66,715 actual miles on it. It has not been registered since 1967 or driven since 1965. I purchased the car from a gentleman who bought it from the 2nd owner's daughter in July 2011. The original owner bought the car new at the Ames, Oklahoma Oldsmobile dealer. He sold the Olds to the 2nd owner in October 1957. The car was the family car until 1965 when he bought a new pickup truck. He parked it in his garage and only registered it once more in 1967, but never put the license plates on the car. He was born in Ames, OK and his wife was originally from Nebraska, so the family took many trips to Nebraska in the Oldsmobile to visit his wife's mother and family. On the trips, he frequently drove the Olds 85 miles per hour for hours as it floated along Interstate 35 to and from Nebraska. He occasionally started it u and it sat in the garage until 1967 when the family moved. It then sat outside until 1985 when he built a new metal building and it remained there until 2011. He and his grandson took the spark plugs out and put oil in the cylinders to keep the engine from seizing. The man died in 2007. He loved the car; it was his baby. He repeatedly told his grandson that all he needed to do was put some gas and a battery in it and it would "fire right up." The family finally sold it in July 2011. The previous owner stored it in a metal building until I bought it in June 2012. As the photos show, the original paint is good and intact on the passenger side, but thin and worn on the driver side. The left front and left rear door glasses were vandalized with a ball pein hammer when it was stored outside. After I washed the decades of dust and dirt off of the car, I hand polished the car with a gentle polish and the paint still retained its luster. The chrome, bumpers, and stainless are in good to very good condition. There is very little pitting and very few scratches or dents on the bumpers, bumper guards, and stainless. The interior is in good condition for its age. There is a bad place on the driver's side front seat lean back upper corner, the rear seat upper lean backs are deteriorated from the sun, and the package tray is fair. The door trim pads have very little wear, but the right front door trim pad has a hole in the fabric below the armrest from something that penetrated the fabric. The door trim pads are faded and stained. The seat fabric is dirty and has stains, but neither the front nor the back seat is badly worn except for the afore-mentioned rear seat lean backs. The instrument panel is complete, in very good condition, and the chrome is not pitted. The paint retains its luster and the speedometer and gage cluster is in excellent condition. However, the hood release cable is broken. The heater case still has all of the original decals including the Oldsmobile globe emblem decal and they are in excellent condition. 1950 Oldsmobile 98's were notorious for body water leaks and several Service Bulletins were issued in an effort for dealers to correct the problems. Unfortunately, not all attempts to do so were successful and this car, being a fairly early production car, apparently had its share of uncorrectable water leaks as there is no evidence of any exposure to salt on the roads it traveled. There are, however, a few very small holes in the right rocker panel below the door openings. The right rear doorjamb has a small rust hole in the wheel well portion of the doorjamb and the rear floor pan has a considerable amount of rust in the aft portion of the rear floor pan at the junction of the body panel under the rear seat. The trunk key is broken off in the deck lid lock and at the time of this writing, the luggage compartment is only accessible by removing the rear seat. The spare tire is missing, but little else has been noted regarding the luggage compartment to date. The Olds is equipped with a factory sun visor and a Wonder Bar Radio, both of which are complete, but the operation of the radio is unknown at this time. The Olds has the original rust-fee fender skirts and the original hubcaps and aftermarket trim rings. The right front hubcap has a split in the stainless. The engine turns over and the engine and engine compartment appear to have never been touched other than for regular maintenance. The engine is complete with the original valve covers, air cleaner, and everything is unmolested and correct. The original glass windshield washer jar is intact and all of the original wiring is complete and intact, but the wiring harness is missing some of the cloth insulation near the location of battery. The Olds still has the same B. F. Goodrich 8.00x15 black wall tires from 1965. They have very little wear and only one tire has significant weather cracking. The keys were never found are still missing and title There is a photocopy of the title that was lost and photo copies of the license receipts from 1956-1967. The family still loves the car and would have loved to have kept it and restored it, but no longer had a place to keep it nor the time to either get it road worthy again or to restore it.