Description
Oldsmobile B-44 – Full color 9 1/2″ x 13 1/2″ ad that talks about the “compromise car” that Oldsmobile was offering to the public in the last days before Pearl Harbor. There is a stately drawing of a Red Two-Door being driven on a country road past trees laden with leaves that have turned color and are ready to drop. The headline assures you that “You can always count on Oldsmobile“ and talks about this car being “better built than any Oldsmobile in 44 years”, hence the name B-44. There is a mention of the Hydra-Matic Drive but the majority of the text is devoted to talking about how the majority of the Oldsmobile factories have switched over to making “Shell and cannon for the U.S.A.”. War, it seems, was a foregone conclusion but the hopes were high that some production for peace-time activities would be allowed.
Source: November 10, 1941 Life magazine.
