[speeder]

My dad graduated from HS in 1950 and told me about the significance of the Olds Rocket 88. My old man never had a dime in those days but he had a rich friend who had a brand new 88.

He told me this story in the ‘70s when he had his dream car, a new V-12 E-type roadster. He said that no car today, (at the time he told me this), had the impact on people as the Rocket 88 at the time. Cars had been either out of production, (during WW2), or really bland for several years until that car came along. It made a sonic boom on culture.