A 1956 Olds 88 was the first car I ever rode in, so it was pretty cool to find this ad, in which "Pete," apparently under the influence of then-legal peyote, speaks of himself in the third person to the local Oldsmobile dealer and explains why GM would never, ever dump the Oldsmobile marque. You got a big (for '56) 324-cube Rocket V8 with your 88, plus the knowledge that the very first rock-and-roll song used the Rocket 88 as its subject matter.

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