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 ...

1970 was the acme of performance for the GM A-Bodies. The restriction on engine size removed in order to better battle offerings from FoMoCo and MOPAR in the horsepower war, the Oldsmobile 442 was ...

The 1970 Oldsmobile 442 W-30 arrived at the peak of the muscle car wars with numbers that looked merely competitive, yet it ...

Todd Richard says the family’s 1970 Oldsmobile 442, nicknamed “The Blue Streak” is definitely a “he.” Richard explains, “‘He’ sounds like ‘he’ means business at the stoplight. This car is not to be ...

Frankly, we should adopt a new calendar, don’t you think? Instead of setting the bearings to what is otherwise referred to as the beginning of the Common Era (CE), wouldn’t it be easier for the car ...

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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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...