Oldsmobile had its own version of a 455 (the Rocket V8 ... three digits didn’t reflect the engine size. Regardless of its spelling (hyphens or not), the 442 designation was unrelated to ...

Even General Motors ... was Oldsmobile. Their entry, the 442, was regarded as one of the top contenders. In its most powerful iteration, the 442 W-30 received a 455-CID Oldsmobile "Rocket" V8 ...

The next year, the family business was renamed the Olds Motor ... of the 442 were hobbled by emissions restrictions and never matched the performance or desirability of the 1968-72 models, which ...

A 1999 SEMA show car built by General Motors as the Oldsmobile Intrigue 442. For those unfamiliar, the 4-4-2 is, or at least was, an institution as Oldsmobile. First introduced in 1964 in response ...

Prices shown are the prices you can expect to pay for a 1972 Oldsmobile 442 2 Door Coupe across different levels of condition. Edit options.

As it hails from the bicentennial year, the 350cid engine under the hood is an Olds Rocket V8, not a corporate parts-bin motor, as it wasn't until '77 that production limitations forced the covert ...

"Too much" of most anything will likely cost power, especially if it's done out of balance with the rest of the engine's operating systems. This appears to be what happened with a 1968 Olds 442 ...

Regular Jay Leno's Garage viewers are likely familiar with the Oldsmobile 442, as a well-preserved 1966 ... In the late 1980s, General Motors began working with outside engineering firms to ...