The Oldsmobile Cutlass SX looked like a polite, well-optioned intermediate, yet under its conservative sheetmetal it hid one of the most serious big-block powerplants of the muscle era. Marketed as a ...

For many gearheads, the year 1970 represents the peak of the muscle car era — or at least the peak of the first muscle car era. A big part of what conspired to make 1970 special is that to remain ...

The year is 1970, and the war in Detroit is ravaging the automotive landscape like there would be no tomorrow (there wasn’t). Cubic inches and horsepower were literally crowding the showroom floors of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q.I've got a '54 Olds with a 455 Olds out of a '69 Toronado. The engine is bone stock yet it has surprising power but as great as it runs there's something weird going on. For some time I've been ...

Despite Oldsmobile's eventual reputation for living down to its name, you might have wished its final products were, in fact, more like your father's Oldsmobile. At least, if your dad grew up in the ...