Although muscle cars can be traced back to the 1950s, the consensus is that the Pontiac GTO popularized the high-performance midsize market. Introduced for the 1964 model year, the GTO was immediately ...

In April of 1964, Oldsmobile introduced the 442 option package for the Cutlass. The 4-4-2 moniker was derived from the option’s four-barrel carb, four-speed manual transmission, and dual exhaust. The ...

The Oldsmobile 442 was Olds’ answer to the massively popular 1964 Pontiac GTO. It seemed Pontiac had hit a home run with the first muscle car, and the other GM passenger car divisions all wanted their ...