The 1968 Oldsmobile 442 marked the moment when Oldsmobile stopped flirting with performance and fully embraced brute-force torque. By reworking its midsize muscle car around a new big-inch V8 and a ...
The Oldsmobile 442 W-30 sits at the intersection of Detroit performance and modern collectability, a car whose production run was short but whose impact on the muscle era was outsized. To understand ...
Established 11 years before William Crapo Durant and his associates founded General Motors, Oldsmobile peaked in 1970 thanks to the 442 mid-size muscle car with the 455 CID engine. The W-30 ...