The Romeo Vintage Fest is this Saturday, July 15! Maybe you'll see a classic car like this one: a 1954 Super 88 Oldsmobile Sedan!
The January 21, 1954 issue of The Romeo Observer contained this very photo as that new automobile was on display at Ralph Garrison's Oldsmobile-Chevrolet show room on East St. Clair street. The Oldsmobile was completely redesigned that year, and the caption discusses that in brief, but great detail. Specifically, it mentions that the new model "features a 185 horse-power engine, a 1221/2 inch wheelbase and a stunning panoramic wrap-around windshield." The actually advertisement, which is on the same page as the picture, goes even further with its descriptions about the car's "Body by Fisher - that new lower, longer, lovelier silhoutte[,...] dramatic new flair in its sweep-cut doors and fenders[,...and] new 185-horsepower World's Record 'Rocket' Engine with 8.25 to 1 compression ratio."
The newspaper really wanted people to know how powerful that engine was.
On top of that, according to an article on the front page of the very same edition of The Romeo Observer, the Orchard Moldings Corporation produced the interior trim for Pontiac and Oldsmobile autos, and they had a plant located off Scotch Settlement Road. In other words, the car you see here was, to some extent, locally made.
So if you see any 1954 Super 88 Oldsmobile or other Oldsmobile/Pontiac models at the Romeo Vintage Fest, give them a honk as long as you ask the owners.
Source: The Romeo Observer, January 21, 1954, p.1 and p.4