Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser 455, a rare big-block muscle wagon that packed up to 365 hp yet still flies under today’s radar.

The original Hurst/Olds remains a legendary outlaw muscle car created in an era when passion overpowered corporate rules ...

GM once sold three different 455 engines--a Buick, an Olds, and a Pontiac. All were stump-pulling torque monsters, but which has the potential to make the most power? Car Craft, in conjunction with ...

The spotlight blazed on a ’69 Oldsmobile Hurst 4-4-2 at Richmond Auctions’ Tony Townley Collection sale, where it roared past ...

How does a 7.0-liter supercharged Oldsmobile V-8 sound? What about two of those powerhouses at either end of a car? John Beltz, a GM engineer who was responsible for the 1966 Hurst Hairy Olds, took a ...

What’s the link between a performance-shifting hardware company, a marvelous Soviet technological achievement, and the only time a racing driver won the Indy 500 on his birthday? An astronaut, of ...

For the typical street/strip motor, hot rodders have been aspiring to match towering horsepower peaks with excellent low and midrange torque for decades. Get that curve flat enough, and you've got ...