Oldsmobile 442 W-30 with ties to Hollywood royalty crossed the auction block once again at Mecum’s Florida Summer Special, ...

The Last Factory-Built Oldsmobile 442 Might Surprise You. ... But the application of the old trim—as a stripe bracketed between gold renditions of Oldsmobile's anonymous new logo—is clumsy.

All of the lighting works as intended, while the center console features the Hurst shifter and 442 logo. ... this 1966 Oldsmobile 442 is up for sale from Volo Auto Sales in Illinois for $59,998.

And that was it for the 442—until the 1999 SEMA show, ... But the application of the old trim—as a stripe bracketed between gold renditions of Oldsmobile's anonymous new logo—is clumsy.

This glorious-looking 1970 Oldsmobile 442 W-30 Convertible is one of 96 examples produced that year according to Mecum ... an aluminum intake manifold with the Winters Foundry snowflake logo, ...

While trusted evaluator Hagerty values the Oldsmobile from 1970 and 1971 at only $29,500 and $36,00 respectively, the '70-'71 442 is worth a staggering $79,000-$84,000 on average at auction ...

If you blinked, you might have missed the 1991 Oldsmobile Quad 442 W-41. This weird little Cutlass spin-off is pretty rare today, and the reason why is strange.

What Oldsmobile was grappling with by the end of the 1980s was that middle-class achievement as an idea seemed sort of outdated, or at the very least, that was being redefined.