1970 Oldsmobile 442 Dezert Find With Bonus Muncie 4spd And Aluminum Bell! on 2040-cars
Boulder City, Nevada, United States
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Up for auction is my 1970 Olds 442 with a factory ordered W25 option fiberglass forced air hood! The car has a non numbers matching 455 with a 396021F code block and G heads. The engine is not currently running because it needs two freeze plugs in the heads and the radiator is bad but it turns good and cranks over just fine. The trans is not original and looks to be a 1969 model. The trans shifts into all gears and has clean fluid. I recently found this car in central Nevada and bought it from the second owner who owned since 1975. The lady I bought from said her brother had a problem with the original engine and trans and got rid of them around 1980 or so. The car was originally built in Fremont California and shipped to Scripture Oldsmobile in San Rafael California. The car has been on the west coast it's whole life and is extremely solid with no rot anywhere! When I got the car home I dropped the tank and found the build sheet for the car! I had the build sheet laminated and you can clearly read all the information on it! This 442 was originally equipped with a lot of factory upgrades including the W25 hood, W26 dual gate console Hurst shifter, N34 sport steering wheel, rally instrument cluster with tic tach clock, air conditioning, power disc brakes, performance 3.23 axle with positraction and sport rv mirrors! When I picked the car up it was very dusty and dirty but cleaned up very good as you can see from the interior pics. The body of this car is extremely solid with no panel replacement needed at all and the factory floor pans under the carpet look brand new! The front fenders were replaced at some point with 1971 fenders. I also just put factory repainted 14x6 wheels on it with new trim rings, caps and brand new tires! This is an awesome 442 that would be perfect to restore because it is very straight and super solid! This is a NO RESERVE auction so BID TO WIN!!! I will also include a factory Muncie M20 4spd trans with aluminum bell to the winning bidder!! This car will be sold as is where is with no warranty implied and I reserve the right to end this auction anytime. Once again NO RESERVE for this awesome dezert find car!!
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This Or That: 1980 Oldsmobile 442 vs. 1989 BMW 635CSi [w/poll]
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My loss in the first round of our This or That series, in which two Autoblog editors pick sides on any given topic and then attempt to explain why the other is completely wrong, didn't stop me from picking another good-natured fight, this time with Senior Editor Seyth Miersma. Last time, our chosen sides were eerily similar in design, albeit quite different in actual execution. This time, our vehicular peculiarities couldn't seemingly fall any further from one another: A 1980 Oldsmobile 442 wouldn't seem to match up in comparison to a 1989 BMW 635CSi.
How did we come up with such disparate contenders? Simple, really. Seyth and I mutually agreed to choose a car that's currently for sale online. It had to be built and sold in the 1980s, and it had to be a coupe. The price cap was set at $10,000. The fruits of our searching labors will henceforth be disputed, with Seyth on the side of the Germans, and myself arguing in favor of the Rocket Olds. Am I setting myself up for another lopsided loss?
Jay Leno bangs up his own Toronado in GT6
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For the latest Jay Leno's Garage episode, he takes his real Toronado out for a cruise and then drives the virtual one like he stole it, accruing some body damage along the way. Leno also drives the virtual supercar Mercedes-Benz designed for GT6, the AMG Vision Gran Turismo Concept that debuted at the LA Auto Show, along with the real one, which is a 1:1-scale model. The model is radio-controlled and equipped with a small electric motor, sufficient to move it on and off of auto show floors.
Head below to watch the episode, which includes a few words from GT6 creator Kazunori Yamauchi.
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For the sake of perspective, translated to US population, this total recall figure would equal a car for each resident of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Montana, Delaware, South Dakota, Alaska, North Dakota, the District of Columbia, Vermont and Wyoming. Combined. Here's how it all breaks down:
7,610,862 vehicles in North America being recalled for unintended ignition key rotation. 6,805,679 are in the United States.