The Oldsmobile 442 W-30 earned its reputation not in brochure copy but in the way it bent real streets and dragstrips to its ...
Some badges are just iconic. The SS on a Chevy or the coiled snake on a Shelby are just two examples, but another badge that just screams performance would be the 442 badge found on select GM ...
It was all John Z. DeLorean's fault. Years before he built his eponymously named stainless steel sports car, John Z. was a mover and shaker at General Motors. In the early-to-mid 1960s, Mr. DeLorean ...
Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...
Every car has a heartbeat, but some—like this 1965 Oldsmobile 442—have one that’s faint, buried beneath dust and silence, waiting for someone to listen again. It’s been sitting in the Oregon light, ...
The Oldsmobile 442 entered the mid 1970s just as the muscle car era was collapsing under the weight of emissions rules, insurance crackdowns, and a new obsession with fuel economy. Yet the 1975 ...