In 1967 I bought a 1966 Oldsmobile 442 in Portland, OR. It had the 400 engine with a 4 barrel and a 4 speed. I drove it up and down the west coast then over to Virginia and back to Portland. It was fun, fun, fun.
My brother had one exactly like this but had it modified in daytona while seving in the us marines he was in a hurry to get pack to his wife in baltimore so from daytona to baltimore while on bivwac he set some of his own land speed records lol the state troopers could not keep up with him no bull. And by the time the tickets hit our maik box he was already shipped out to vietnam he did 9 years and that car started rite up and never let him down . I will never forget that . Thats an olds for ya. Olds reliable
An oversight here was failure to mention that beginning in '67, GM had all the A-bodies available w/the T400 transmission....a HUGE step-up over the 2-speed auto's on earlier years.
I had a W-30 442 , white with Crager SS mags(in1968). My brother-in-law was a GM guy and he talked me into buying this 442. He had a new 1968 W-30 and to his dismay, my 67 442 was much faster. Olds went to a longer stroke in 1968 and it was a big mistake.I use to beat his 442 with my 1967 390 Cougar, time and time again. I'm a die hard Ford man and I couldn't locate a 428 CJ Mustang at the time. I finally did buy one , but, that's another story. The W-30 Olds had to do for the time being. These cars were so underrated for performance by motorhead's at the time. I knew of 4 other friends who owned 66/67442's, plus mine in the Buffalo,N.Y. area and they were all fast. I only know about their street racing records and not their drag strip times at Niagara's and Lancaster Speedway times. I know for a fact , I only raced my 442 at Niagara Drag strip one time, and turned a 13.80 ET. Who know's how much better of an ET I could have turned if I had raced there consistently. Here's the down side to 400 C.I Old's motors. The oil pump filled the top end of the engine ,but , the oil pan went dry. Bingo, you spun #5 bearing! There wasn't an Olds dealership in Western N.Y. where you wouldn't see a 442 in the repair lot, with the hood up, while the motor was being yanked for repair. I had my engine tore down twice with that #5 bearing problem . The second time I only had about 20 miles it and it let go, No, I wasn't racing, just coming home from work from Bell Aerospace in Niagara Falls, N,Y. . I was throughly through with any 442's after that last experience. I found out much later you could alleviate most of the oiling problem by putting Holly carb jets gets in the oil galleys under the rocker arms. thus cutting the oil supply to the top end and leaving more to the bottom end. You could also install an Olds full car 455C.I. oil pan which held an additional quart ,which helped. Joe Mondello(an OLDS super wrench) later sold a kit to help solve this problem. This is where I picked up my 1968 CJ Mustang and happy days again. I was only beat on the street twice in 4 years by Chevys that came off of a trailer againt my pure stock(except headers) Mustang. Like I said earlier, that's another story. Gary Flagg Buffalo, N.Y.
I built a 400 with SS specs with a M-21. It was a Maroon with chrome ports. It was a 66 and it allowed a solid cam and lumpy and snotty as it could be. The Q-Jet was so good that a Holley could not even run with it, it made so much 6400 rpm torque that it broke 3 M-21s and I finally put an M-22 in it. And the secondaries had a perfect diaphragm that you could run up to 3000 and stomp it and those flaps would drop and it would be past 6000 stock tach to about 6400-6500 instantly and you’d better know how to shift. The torque was so strong below 3000 if you dumped the clutch revved that low and floored it you would blow the clutch or twist something off. It had a locker Dana. 4.11s . It was about the only BOP that could run away from the LS6 or even stay close to a 427 MR FE Cyclone or Fairlane. I built both engines SS legal. Very snotty factory solid cams the best factory heads. The Olds had a great suspension and the Fords the greatest engine of the era. As strong as a Hemi. The FE revved higher of course and had to! They were so light internally and the head for SS was really a breather. The Hemi was stronger in 67 and the FE was a year behind on the TP that would even them up. Olds was out in 68 with the small bore 3.875x 4.25 stroke 400. It was Hemis and FEs. Those were the days. I read crap about the FE being clunky and obsolete…. Why do I see so many things from them on modern engines? Not copies but many attributes of the FE , and in Nostalgia Racing, the HR T-Bolts like Ray Paquet can still eat your lunch. And the 390 blocks with an offset ground 391 FT steel crank and 6.7 rods with 2.2 BBC rod journals and the stock 2.79 mains, same as a351C and the race Cleveland main bearings work just fine. At 4.03x 3.98 you have a great 406 just using the 360/390 70s truck block with 3 ribbed mains and really thick bores and the biggest intake valves you can fit even with 1.55 exhaust and two drivers side dump truck flipped upside down, the center outlet and a T04 outlet on each a pair of 3582 billet wheel turbos and 10 lbs of boost, and a good cam it will pull 550 ft lbs and 950-1000 hp depends on a carb or FI. A 780 Holley blow through or a FITECH on a PortoSonic. Small individual air/air intercoolers. Everyday 825+ wheel hp daily driver on 91+ octane gas.
I've never seen a column shift automatic on a 443 w30... somebody must of been cheap when they bought this not to get a consol automatic and/or manuel.
First! That's the good 400 too - the '68 and later had a different bore and stroke, and are less favored. I always thought the '67 Cutlass was the funkiest looking of all the '66-'67 GM A bodies, even though I like Oldsmobile a lot. That one is a sedan too!
Man the 66 442 with the OA1 kit with the 3 Rochester 2GCs , the biggest ones they ever made including the tri-powered GTO, and the best flowing exhaust manifolds GM ever made in 66-67( possibly 64-65 too)
Kinda a semantic thing, but it's not a sedan. If it had a different roofline from the hardtop, it would be a sedan. In comparison, a 1967 Belvedere I is a sedan.
Not sure who had the car after Richard Haas, the original owner. According to Christopher Phillip of Dream Giveaway, all the money from ticket sales goes to charity. You can read all about it on their website. Richard Petty’s Victory Junction and Ronald McDonald House are but two of the charities they’ve worked with in the past.
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In 1967 I bought a 1966 Oldsmobile 442 in Portland, OR. It had the 400 engine with a 4 barrel and a 4 speed. I drove it up and down the west coast then over to Virginia and back to Portland. It was fun, fun, fun.
Very sweet….I have a 1967 Olds Delta 88 convertible…425 ci… 400 turbo trans and had a 66 in high school👍🏼😁
My brother had one exactly like this but had it modified in daytona while seving in the us marines he was in a hurry to get pack to his wife in baltimore so from daytona to baltimore while on bivwac he set some of his own land speed records lol the state troopers could not keep up with him no bull. And by the time the tickets hit our maik box he was already shipped out to vietnam he did 9 years and that car started rite up and never let him down . I will never forget that . Thats an olds for ya. Olds reliable
Always reliable. Rocket power.
I let my 67 delta 88 convertible sit for ten years and started for the first time in 2021… it started right up👍🏼😁
Thanks man i mis him.and his style
An oversight here was failure to mention that beginning in '67, GM had all the A-bodies available w/the T400 transmission....a HUGE step-up over the 2-speed auto's on earlier years.
True, we should have mentioned that, but I thought the car’s unusual history was more important. Next time!
Wow what a car. Thanks for video.
My pleasure.
Just talkin about how cool 442 olds were. Killing it
They are awesomeness.
At 17yo in 1966 I won a 1966 Buick Skylark HT Flame Red/Wht Painted Roof 310 V8 Automatic PS & PB Happy Days
Check out this bad boy: 1967 Buick GS400 With A Stick!
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My high school car was a black 442 with red interior four-speed bought it in 1969 for $1800
That must have been a lot of tire-frying fun!
I had a W-30 442 , white with Crager SS mags(in1968). My brother-in-law was a GM guy and he talked me into buying this 442. He had a new 1968 W-30 and to his dismay, my 67 442 was much faster. Olds went to a longer stroke in 1968 and it was a big mistake.I use to beat his 442 with my 1967 390 Cougar, time and time again. I'm a die hard Ford man and I couldn't locate a 428 CJ Mustang at the time. I finally did buy one , but, that's another story. The W-30 Olds had to do for the time being.
These cars were so underrated for performance by motorhead's at the time. I knew of 4 other friends who owned 66/67442's, plus mine in the Buffalo,N.Y. area and they were all fast. I only know about their street racing records and not their drag strip times at Niagara's and Lancaster Speedway times. I know for a fact , I only raced my 442 at Niagara Drag strip one time, and turned a 13.80 ET. Who know's how much better of an ET I could have turned if I had raced there consistently.
Here's the down side to 400 C.I Old's motors. The oil pump filled the top end of the engine ,but , the oil pan went dry. Bingo, you spun #5 bearing! There wasn't an Olds dealership in Western N.Y. where you wouldn't see a 442 in the repair lot, with the hood up, while the motor was being yanked for repair. I had my engine tore down twice with that #5 bearing problem . The second time I only had about 20 miles it and it let go, No, I wasn't racing, just coming home from work from Bell Aerospace in Niagara Falls, N,Y. . I was throughly through with any 442's after that last experience. I found out much later you could alleviate most of the oiling problem by putting Holly carb jets gets in the oil galleys under the rocker arms. thus cutting the oil supply to the top end and leaving more to the bottom end. You could also install an Olds full car 455C.I. oil pan which held an additional quart ,which helped. Joe Mondello(an OLDS super wrench) later sold a kit to help solve this problem.
This is where I picked up my 1968 CJ Mustang and happy days again. I was only beat on the street twice in 4 years by Chevys that came off of a trailer againt my pure stock(except headers) Mustang. Like I said earlier, that's another story.
Gary Flagg Buffalo, N.Y.
Thanks for a great, insightful comment.
I built a 400 with SS specs with a M-21. It was a Maroon with chrome ports. It was a 66 and it allowed a solid cam and lumpy and snotty as it could be. The Q-Jet was so good that a Holley could not even run with it, it made so much 6400 rpm torque that it broke 3 M-21s and I finally put an M-22 in it. And the secondaries had a perfect diaphragm that you could run up to 3000 and stomp it and those flaps would drop and it would be past 6000 stock tach to about 6400-6500 instantly and you’d better know how to shift. The torque was so strong below 3000 if you dumped the clutch revved that low and floored it you would blow the clutch or twist something off. It had a locker Dana. 4.11s . It was about the only BOP that could run away from the LS6 or even stay close to a 427 MR FE Cyclone or Fairlane. I built both engines SS legal. Very snotty factory solid cams the best factory heads. The Olds had a great suspension and the Fords the greatest engine of the era. As strong as a Hemi. The FE revved higher of course and had to! They were so light internally and the head for SS was really a breather. The Hemi was stronger in 67 and the FE was a year behind on the TP that would even them up. Olds was out in 68 with the small bore 3.875x 4.25 stroke 400. It was Hemis and FEs. Those were the days. I read crap about the FE being clunky and obsolete…. Why do I see so many things from them on modern engines? Not copies but many attributes of the FE , and in Nostalgia Racing, the HR T-Bolts like Ray Paquet can still eat your lunch. And the 390 blocks with an offset ground 391 FT steel crank and 6.7 rods with 2.2 BBC rod journals and the stock 2.79 mains, same as a351C and the race Cleveland main bearings work just fine. At 4.03x 3.98 you have a great 406 just using the 360/390 70s truck block with 3 ribbed mains and really thick bores and the biggest intake valves you can fit even with 1.55 exhaust and two drivers side dump truck flipped upside down, the center outlet and a T04 outlet on each a pair of 3582 billet wheel turbos and 10 lbs of boost, and a good cam it will pull 550 ft lbs and 950-1000 hp depends on a carb or FI. A 780 Holley blow through or a FITECH on a PortoSonic. Small individual air/air intercoolers. Everyday 825+ wheel hp daily driver on 91+ octane gas.
Thanks for watching.
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Awesome Car!! Stunning!
Glad you like it.
Needs a center-shifted console. Olds rallye wheels and raised white letter tires for me.
The car was built to drag race. Those things just added weight.
A bare-bones racer doesn't need a thing.
Nice video and beautiful car.
Thanks.
Nice olds
Stay strong
The car in the video is a Sports Coupe. Not a club or holiday.
I've never seen a column shift automatic on a 443 w30... somebody must of been cheap when they bought this not to get a consol automatic and/or manuel.
Very cool!!!!!!!
Thanks.
First!
That's the good 400 too - the '68 and later had a different bore and stroke, and are less favored.
I always thought the '67 Cutlass was the funkiest looking of all the '66-'67 GM A bodies, even though I like Oldsmobile a lot.
That one is a sedan too!
Man the 66 442 with the OA1 kit with the 3 Rochester 2GCs , the biggest ones they ever made including the tri-powered GTO, and the best flowing exhaust manifolds GM ever made in 66-67( possibly 64-65 too)
Yes, it is a Club Coupe, not a Holiday Coupe, as I errantly typed in the video.
@@musclecarcampy9922 I didn't catch that so you shouldn't've said anything.😃
@@DanEBoyd I edited the video, but it didn’t take for some reason.
Kinda a semantic thing, but it's not a sedan. If it had a different roofline from the hardtop, it would be a sedan. In comparison, a 1967 Belvedere I is a sedan.
what is the deal with this giveaway business?
is this car formerly owned by varney??i remember he has a column shift w-30.
Not sure who had the car after Richard Haas, the original owner. According to Christopher Phillip of Dream Giveaway, all the money from ticket sales goes to charity. You can read all about it on their website. Richard Petty’s Victory Junction and Ronald McDonald House are but two of the charities they’ve worked with in the past.
No better looking 442, ever!
I’m a ‘68 guy myself.