Oldsmobile 4-4-2 W-30 versus Buick GS 455 Stage 1, A-body brothers each considered the “gentleman’s musclecar.” Sibling rivals when GM divisions competed.

The 1968 Oldsmobile 442 came with a 400 cubic-inch V8, capable of doing a 0-60 sprint in 7.0 seconds. For those who wanted more muscle, Oldsmobile teamed up with Hurst to build the 1968 Hurst/Olds.

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.04, .01, .01, .03, .45. No, it’s not a hidden code that would signal the allied forces of internal combustion to take over the world. However, the cars to which these numbers pertain would be ...

The 1968 Hurst-Olds 455 completely obliterated that rule (although a clever trick was played – the carmaker employed a third-party entity to finish the cars, thus making them ‘not factory’).

Muscle cars were so common then that many of them sat on dealership lots for weeks or months; many of those same cars, like ...