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Oldsmobile Once Made A Muscle Car For Young People With Light Wallets, And It's Largely Forgotten
The muscle car era of the 1960s and early 1970s was a defining moment in automotive history. America’s automakers cranked horsepower to hilarious levels, and then dropped those engines into cars that ...
Oldsmobile may not be a brand that still exists today, but it had a significant impact on the burgeoning American automotive empire. And on August 21, 1897, the Olds Motor Works company first came to ...
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When Oldsmobile dropped the Hurst/Olds W-30 hammer
The Hurst/Olds W-30 sits at the intersection of muscle car mythology and limited-production rarity, which is exactly why ...
At the height of the muscle car craze, the engineering wizards at Oldsmobile created a "Frankensteinesque" big-block V8 with four valves per cylinder that could've become the most iconic American high ...
Mihai has even branched beyond the usual confines of an automotive writer from time to time, however, his heart is still close to anything car-related. He's most at home retelling the story of some ...
Ransom E. Olds founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Co. in 1897 in Lansing, Michigan, and after building four "horseless carriages," became the first company specifically formed to manufacture automobiles.
The record-breaking Oldsmobile Aerotech made a appearance at the Las Vegas Concours. This GM legend was rediscovered and restored after being lost for years.
In 1998, standard side-impact airbags debuted for the Oldsmobile Silhouette, which now featured a shorter wheelbase. The 3.6-liter V6 engine got more horsepower and torque with a new anti-theft system ...
Turbocharging is a fairly common thing these days, but back in the ‘60s, the technology was just getting rolling. The first vehicle to introduce turbos for production cars was this - the 1962 ...
Henry Ford thought Fargo was a prime territory to sell Model As and Model Ts, and Chevy, Oldsmobile, Buick, Plymouth and Dodge dealers built or worked out of distinctive buildings still in use. A ...
Lighting the cloth wick in your car’s kerosene headlight may be beyond the imagination of modern-day drivers, but it’s a dream come true for one Lincoln man. Mark France demonstrates the lantern-like ...
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