LABOUR OF LOVE
There’s no denying that Paul Wells is an Oldsmobile enthusiast. It takes certain dedication to own four of them! Although, if anything could have put him off, it would have been his six-year nut and bolt, frame-off restoration on this 1957 Oldsmobile 88 convertible. Paul first dipped his toe into the waters of American car ownership with aChrysler Cordoba. “I don’t remember anything about that,” smiles Paul, “I bought it sometime in the Nineties and it must have been cheap...” Otherwise he’s had mainly sports cars; a Healey Sprite, MGC, Austin Healey 3000 and a rare Renault Alpine A110, “until a mate at a local garage had a 1957 Olds Golden 88 four-door sedan for sale on behalf of a customer. He needed to sell in a hurry so I gave him £3000 and my Volvo 240.”
Paul found a 1957 Holiday coupe online and had that shipped over; it was featured in our August 2009 issue. “Then I bought asecond ’57 Holiday, this one a four-door, with its
