Oldsmobile’s entry-level cruiser came with plenty of style, and this 1960 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 Holiday Sport Sedan comes “ready to drive and enjoy,” according to the listing here on eBay. The Rockville Centre, New York classic enjoyed seller-described “careful” maintenance for the prior 17 years. General Motors saw 1960 styling step back from the bold lines of this platform’s 1959 debut, leaving fans polarized on which is better. Personally, I like the wild and crazy ’59s. This car’s $19,000 asking price suggests an earnest attempt at sale, and the Make Offer button may net an even lower price point. Considering that’s slightly above what people often drop on a rusty needs-everything muscle car, this purported turn-key beauty looks better by the minute.

The broad, symmetrical dash blends rich color with white painted metal and plenty of polished brightwork. The thin, two-spoke steering wheel helps maintain instrument visibility as you pilot your family to church or get your kicks on Route 66.

Sculpted bumpers blend style with function from a time when parallel parking regularly implied a slight touch front and rear as you worked your way into or away from your space. Try that today and you might get flagged for roughing. Note the snazzy Olds emblems between each set of headlights.

Twin horns front and center stand prepared to warn others to make way as this road schooner charts its course. Modern cars have abandoned metal core supports for plastic, leaving nothing of substance preventing an impact from crushing your engine. Meanwhile this Dynamic 88 presents four layers of metal before a frontal impact (bumper, die-cast grille, grille support, and core support) reaches the V8. Even this budget-minded Dynamic 88 got a 371 cid (6.1L) V8, fitted with lower compression to run regular gas and the Econ-O-Way two-barrel carburetor to sip less fuel than the Super 88 and Ninety-Eight’s 394 cid (6.5L) mill. Thanks to lov2xlr8’s library of factory brochures for some details.

Though not as wild as the prior year, the 1960 Olds maintained plenty of space-age character aft, emphasizing the low and wide Interstate cruiser look. It might not swallow a pool table, but the 88’s trunk offers plenty of room for that family vacation or smuggling friends into a drive-in theater. The Holiday Sport Coupe roof line brings a second wraparound window rearward for the ultimate in 360 vision. Somehow people survived driving without Blind Spot monitoring by simply taking a look with their actual eyeballs before executing lane changes. Will you trade $19k for this tidy-looking highway cruiser?