Fully restored 1964 Oldsmobile 442 hardtop blends rarity, V8 performance, and classic muscle car styling in standout condition.

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 ...

Although muscle cars can be traced back to the 1950s, the consensus is that the Pontiac GTO popularized the high-performance midsize market. Introduced for the 1964 model year, the GTO was immediately ...

Back in the fall of 1967, Oldsmobile wasn't just building cars—it was building statements. One of those statements was assembled during the first week of October at GM's Lansing, Michigan, factory: a ...

Selecting the HOT ROD Street Machine of the Year was not an easy task. HOT ROD staffers see thousands of fine street machines during the course of a year. After much debate and lobbying, a stellar ...

“The W-30 version of the car has always been kind of the pinnacle of the Oldsmobile muscle car,” says Mancini. “I’ve always been a fan of not just Chrysler but GM muscle cars from that era and the 442 ...

In fact, it disappeared forever without much of a whimper.

The 1964 Pontiac GTO was the brainchild of John Z. DeLorean, Russ Gee, and Bill Collins. The initial production run was supposed to be 5,000 units, but first-year orders eclipsed the 32,000 mark.

After the LeMans disaster in 1955, the American auto builders all signed an agreement they would abstain from participating in competitive motorsports in the hopes of stemming government intervention.