Despite Oldsmobile's eventual reputation for living down to its name, you might have wished its final products were, in fact, more like your father's Oldsmobile. At least, if your dad grew up in the ...

If you were physically present in the early 1970s, you'd know Oldsmobile had already proven itself by building a legit street fighter. The 442 carried serious credibility, the 455 engine had brute ...

Q.I've got a '54 Olds with a 455 Olds out of a '69 Toronado. The engine is bone stock yet it has surprising power but as great as it runs there's something weird going on. For some time I've been ...

Frankly, we should adopt a new calendar, don’t you think? Instead of setting the bearings to what is otherwise referred to as the beginning of the Common Era (CE), wouldn’t it be easier for the car ...

For those of you who may not think "Oldsmobile" and "performance" are synonymous terms, Oldsmobile's performance heritage dates all the way back to 1903, when an Olds-built "Flyer" established the ...

If I ask you to name the first number that comes to mind when hearing the word ‘Oldsmobile,’ chances are it will be one of the following: 88 (as in Rocket 88), 4-4-2, or W30. OK, the last one is an ...

The Pontiac GTO bowed in early September 1963 for the 1964 model year. The initial sales target was for 5,000 copies per year, but it sold like hotcakes, with 32,450 GTOs selling the first year of ...

Oldsmobile began offering the 4-4-2 as an option package on the existing F-85 (not the one with the strange Jetfire Turbo Rocket engine) and Cutlass models starting in 1964. It became its own line in ...

So, the Oldsmobile 442. Sorry, the 4-4-2, depending on the year, anyway. Despite three-number model names being mostly a Porsche thing, there are other three-number ...