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A fifth body style was added to the four offered since 1955: a 4-door 6-window hardtop, previously exclusive to Cadillac and the Buick Electra. The "Holiday Sedan" name was transferred to it, and the 4-door 4-window hardtop body style was instead called the "Sport Sedan". This was the first time not all Oldsmobile hardtops were called Holidays.
The introduction of the mid-sized muscle cars (including the 389 V8-powered Pontiac GTO and similar Oldsmobile 4-4-2, which started with a 330 cubic-inch V8 in 1964, but switched to a larger 400 inch engine in 1965), and with the specter of the front-drive Toronado to become the new flagship over the Starfire looming big in Oldsmobile's future ...
Modern engines instead draw air into an airbox, which is connected by individual hoses to each carburetor or directly to the intake ports in fuel-injected engines, thus avoiding an extra intake manifold. [1] The airbox allows the use of one air filter instead of multiples, reducing complexity. Developments arising from concerns about engine ...
The Starfire name was first used by Oldsmobile on a one-of-a-kind dream car that was shown at the 1953 Motorama auto show. Named after the Lockheed F-94 Starfire jet fighter, the original Starfire was a 4-passenger convertible that had a fiberglass body, a 200 hp (150 kW) overhead valve Rocket V8 engine, bucket seats for all passengers and a wraparound windshield.
The first second-generation Oldsmobile V8 330 cu in (5.4 L) "Jetfire Rocket" introduced in 1964 and produced through 1967. It was released one year earlier than the tall deck 425, and debuted the standard 3.385 in (86.0 mm) stroke; bore was 3.938 in (100.0 mm). 330s were painted gold and had forged steel crankshafts.
A vehicle snorkel is the land-based equivalent of the submarine snorkel which allows submarines to use diesel engines while submerged. [1] Snorkels, when used by vehicles with air-breathing internal combustion engines , sometimes allow limited deep wading capability for river crossing or amphibious landing operations, particularly in the case ...
The Oldsmobile 4-4-2 (also known as the 442) is a muscle car produced by Oldsmobile between the 1964 and 1987 model years. Introduced as an option package for US-sold F-85 and Cutlass models, it became a model in its own right from 1968 to 1971, spawned the Hurst/Olds in 1968, then reverted to an option through the mid-1970s.
4-door sedan 4-door hardtop 2-door coupe 2-door hardtop 2-door convertible 4-door station wagon: Layout: Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive: Platform: A-body: Related: Oldsmobile 4-4-2 coupe Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser station wagon: Powertrain; Engine: 225 cu in (3.7 L) Buick V6 250 cu in (4.1 L) Chevrolet Straight-six engine 330 cu in (5.4 L) Jetfire V8