It wasn’t that long ago that station wagons were the unwanted step-children of the collector car hobby. Relatively few wagons had been kept around, not many guys wanted those survivors, and even fewer guys restored them.
But times have certainly changed — especially for haulers as stunning and stylish as Bill and Billie Ginta’s scarce 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.
“The kids were selling it at the Volo Museum as part of an estate sale. I bought it there and they were practically giving it away, and only because it was a station wagon,” Bill Ginta recalled. “That was 30 years ago. I was an Oldsmobile guy and I knew how rare these cars were and when
