this is rare, and very cool... a 442 without a 4 barrel. Why the hell did they do that? THAT is what a 442 is ABOUT! Four barrel, 4 speed, dual exhaust. Am I wrong? Anyway, check out this cool 66 with Hurst rims! Looks great!

In 1966, Oldsmobile offered the L69 option to compete with the tri power GTO. 

The 6-bbl Olds horsepower matched the GTO’s. Because the GTO had such great marketing and advertising, only 2,129 Oldsmobiles were ordered with triple two-barrel carburetors (and 1,171 of those were Cutlass Holiday Coupes)

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/1966-oldsmobile-4-4-2-unicorn-shows-one-year-only-6-bbl-surprise-it-s-too-rare-to-pass-246094.html#

when the musclecars just looked right, they had the big tires in back, some rake, and Cragars, Keystones, or slotted mags

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122119333604528300&set=gm.3975195212757171&idorvanity=1686223568321025

From the Muscle Cars and Street Freaks of the late 1960's and the 1970's" facebook page.

442 on Keystones looking great

https://silodrome.com/oldsmobile-442-w30

442 with under the bumper scoops! Sweet!

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1167363127626500&set=pcb.1144010916797992

What the hell happened to the Oldsmobiles? I never see them online, never see them in magazines, never see them in car shows or cruises

Johnny Davis was a 9-year-old in 1961 Macon, Georgia, and was focused on earning enough money from his daily newspaper route to buy a car by the time he got his driver’s license. He still has the 69 Olds 442 he bought new

Outgrowing the paper route at age 15, he boosted his earnings to about $1 per hour at a grocery store job.

it has a 400 cu in and a 3.42 gear set in the back, and power steering

the 4-4-2’s price tag was nearly four grand. Johnny got a much-needed $567 discount from the dealer, a friend of his father’s. That brought the cash price down to $3553 with Georgia’s sales tax. “I had a little over $3000, so I had to borrow $600,” he remembers.

In 1985, with 140,000 miles on the clock, the 4-4-2 went into Johnny’s one-car garage and under a cover for a 15-year rest.

The restoration was nut and bolt, and took 5 years in the garage, completed in 2005. With the body off and engine sent out for a rebuild, the frame was powder-coated. Johnny added front disc brakes, which necessitated 15-inch wheels to replace the original 14-inchers.

https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/original-owner-this-georgia-man-bought-an-olds-4-4-2-with-money-hed-been-earning-since-age-9/

incredible... in 1970, Oldsmobile gave it's dealers an offer they couldn't refuse; special-order units would not count against the 442 allotment that Oldsmobile had in place at the time... and that's how this 442 was factory painted Mopar Plum Crazy Purple

In 1970, GM allowed Oldsmobile dealers to commission special-order paint for $50, any hue, not just certain colors from an options list. A specific dealer from Virginia Beach took advantage of this option and ordered quite a few cars in uncommon colors.

 He did it so that he could have one-off rigs in his showroom but also because special-order units did not count against the 442 allotment that Oldsmobile had in place at the time.

 This metallic purple drop-top is one of those cars. And according to the current owner, the hue is an exact copy of Mopar's Plum Crazy purple and was applied at the Oldsmobile Experimental Center.

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/one-of-one-1970-oldsmobile-442-w30-looks-fabulous-in-plum-crazy-purple-224456.html#

66 442

https://www.mecum.com/lots/1101357/1966-oldsmobile-442-convertible/

not the Smothers Brothers' 68 Hurst Olds, but an Olds they sponsored, the Berejik Olds 442

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=774344951368530&set=a.717965483673144

I don't remember learning that the 1970 442 had a factory fiberglass hood

The 442 package drew from the B09 Police Apprehender Pursuit Pack that came with an aggressive cam, a heavy-duty suspension, and six-inch wide wheels shod in redline tires.

1970 was to be the peak for Oldsmobile 442 performance because the government was going to start pushing for increased fuel economy standards and emissions standards, insurance companies were beginning to balk at covering muscle cars with massive horsepower ratings.

Rather than squander their final year of muscle-car bliss, GM pulled out all the stops. The previous corporate rule limiting displacement in mid-size passenger cars to 400 cubic inches was lifted, and all the GM divisions that were building stoplight heroes responded.

Oldsmobile stuffed a the 455 under the 442’s hood. Previously, the only Cutlass that had been equipped with a 455 cube V8 was the Hurst/Olds package in 1969.

If you snagged the W-30 package with the “Select Fit” components you got the W-25 fiberglass hood with air induction through functional hood scoops, red plastic front inner fenders, a low-restriction air cleaner, a Winters aluminum intake, and a higher-lift, longer-duration cam. You could also specify a close-ratio, heavy-duty four-speed manual gearbox shifted by a Hurst Competition shifter. The Rocket 455 with the W-30 package was rated at 370 horsepower and a massive 500 pound-feet of torque.

https://gmauthority.com/blog/2023/09/rally-red-1970-oldsmobile-442-w-30-headed-to-mecum-dallas

https://res.cloudinary.com/mecum/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,g_center,q_auto,w_1920/v1689187006/auctions/DA23/1092498/671599.jpg?

1977 Oldsmobile 442 was just pulled out of a garage after 30 years by the owner's sons, who are going to fix it up and surprise their dad.... awwwww!

 

https://www.topspeed.com/this-oldsmobile-442-was-found-after-collecting-dust-for-30-years-inside-a-barn/

'69 H/O and Super Bee found unexpectedly

Not often I see fully restored 442s

actor/comedian Jeremy Piven loves his 73 Bronco, and 71 Oldsmobile 442

and had some fun with the Funny Or Die people collaborating with Team Hot Wheels 

His dad had a 1965 Mustang convertible " we drove it for a while. It was amazing. When it ran its course my father took the body of the car and put it in our garden. It had tomato plants going through it, and I used it as a jungle gym when I was a kid. It had many different lives."

https://www.complex.com/sports/2011/02/jeremy-piven-discusses-american-muscle-cars-hot-wheels-and-being-a-jewish-duddhist

instead of attending Comic Con, Jason Mamoa was driving his 442 on Old Topanga Canyon Road Sunday out near the Calabasas area, when some crotch rocket moron used ALL the lanes, and smashed into the 442 drivers side headlight area

 

This is a fully restored 442, that was professionally aged to look rough for a Netflix movie I didn't hear about, Sweet Girl, that was out last year. Looks like he got to keep the car, and was still enjoying it

https://www.tmz.com/2022/07/24/jason-momoa-involved-head-on-crash-with-motorcycle-rider-okay/

https://nypost.com/2022/07/24/jason-momoa-survives-head-on-collision-with-motorcyclist/

that red was a great choice!

 https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2022/04/nice_29.html

this 1970 Oldsmobile 442 W30, with only 52k miles, was rescued from a Wisconsin barn. It had been off the road since 1974!

2nd 442 with cool wheels I've seen today

https://www.facebook.com/groups/70smusclecarsandstreetfreaks/permalink/2926957714247598

Damn. That is one nice set of wheels

https://www.facebook.com/groups/CragarSS/permalink/4047174958650113

nice 442