G’day Muscle Car Campy, I consider myself Oldsmobile Biggest Australian Fan, here in Australia you just wouldn’t see a Oldsmobile anywhere let alone anyone knowing they actually exist. My absolute favourite Oldsmobile, 1968 W31, hope you are going to to show a W31. I have 1:18 Diecast of every year Oldsmobile. Yes I am a die heart Mopar Guy but after Mopar it is Oldsmobile. I am friends with a gentleman here in Melbourne that has the only 1970 Oldsmobile W30 in Australia & I hope to go for a drive in it soon, it is a auto. What isn’t to love about W30’s there is just not a bad angle on them, & those rear quarters just magnificent how they flare out. Thank you for sharing. Cheers Louis Kats from Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 🇺🇸 👍
Wow what a beautiful 1970 W-30 and a 4 speed!!! Very cool owner to let you drive his pride and joy. I always liked the W-30 cars. Guy in high school had a 1969 455 W-30 it was blue with black stripes. I had a 69 GTO with a 400. Later I put in a 1970 455 engine in it. That was back in 1978-79. You could buy those A bodies back in the late 70s for 1000-2500 bucks and the cars were nice and usually had about 60-70k miles on them. I bought my 69 GTO for 1200 bucks in 1978. Car was immaculate and only had 70k on her. Those were the days. Today I have a 1981 Pontiac Trans Am Daytona 500 Turbo Pace car. I have a Pontiac 461 stroker in her.
Such stylish cars back then. A friend of my brother had a 68 442 convertible 4 speed, back in the early and mid 70s. I bought a 69' Ply Road Runner in the mid 70s. My current car is a 2017 Super Sport Camaro 6 speed manual trans.
I had an Aztec Gold 69 442 #'s matching four speed with factory air, buckets and console, I was restoring it in the mid nineties and lost it in divorce. Before I took it apart, I let it rip in my new housing development, what an absolute BEAST!, I quickly returned to the for fear someone would call the cops, I sold it for pennies on the dollar of what I had in it to a guy who restored cars as a side gig, when he was done it was absolutely gorgeous!, man, what I wouldn't give to have that car now!
By far GM did the absolute best job at fresh air induction......from cowl induction, the the Ram Air IV cars, to this drop dead gorgeous 70 442.....that hood on the car is genius engineering. You can definitely discern from the video that the car has fantastic driving characteristics.....indeed, life is too short to drive boring cars! Lol Good job on this video 😎💯🏁
My first cutlass that I had was a 71 442 and me and my cousin did a lot of work to it and I put a 411 posi rear in it and I took it to the Atco speedway in Atco new jersey and it ran low 12's in the 1/4 mile and both front tires would come off the ground and the back tires would be screeching and I absolutely loved it and I have been hooked on cuttlass's ever since then, they were very powerful machines and had a great body style and were very reliable and very friggin fast without nitrous ❤️😎💪👍
I love he 70 W30 and the hood and all but as a long time lover of the 66 W30. Nothing sounds like a tripower Olds on the pipe and slamming gears. Supposedly both equipped with good gearing, slicks and headers the performance was the same. There is a fully restored well prepared 66 on the web that looks brand new and it ran back to back to back 12.50. I have ridden in a 66 and a 70 and the effects in the 66 are much better in the 66. Jus Sayin!
1970 was the best year for the 442. Not only for performance. The look of the 442 as a whole. The rear bumper and tail lights of all the similar years 69-72 the 70 was the best look. I think the 72 would be second best looking. with the vertical and horizontal splits. The 71 horizontal split was not as good but ok. The only thing 71 and 72 took away power as well as the hood coming down to split the grill with it now a part of the grill. The Olds fastback Holiday coupes were some of the best looking cars EVER made. Sure Chevelles and GTOs were similar but only Olds and Buick had that clean muscle luxury look. Awesome car and I look forward to seeing more.
My first car was a 70 4-4-2 holiday coupe. 4 speed had the typical back windshield rot and all fenders had the rot also. I didn't care the first time I ran through that 4 speed no lift shifting I was sold. I gave 3,500 bucks in 1997. I should have never sold it but youth is wasted on the young.
Hey Campster, does that machine have a "Mondello" tune to it? It sounds really strong. Even with the crappy Olds log exhaust manifolds. Imagine how many ponies it would pick up with a set of Poncho "style" RA manifolds, or a set of hedders. But you did good finding this one. Stick shift, gold in and out, but wish you had mentioned the rear gear. Guessing it's a 3.42? And kudos to the owner for getting rubber outta 3 gears. Very nice. Thanks for the show. 👍
It would had been nice if 68tto80 cadillac had a 10,1 comperasstion know i know why olds has no ac but 71to73 delta 88 and 98 455 wher one of my faverite olds 😅this w30 having eleteric windodwes awsome
Looks like this car has the typical wheel hop issue which can be easily resolved...This car sounds like it has a M22 Rock Crusher trans (gear whine in the 1st 3 gears) which was not an option until 1971. Is it a M22 or M21?
@@musclecarcampy9922 Yes I know.. I owned both a 1970 and 1971 W30..The 70 had M21 3.91 rear, The 71 had M22 with a 3.91 gear..Great muscle cars..I now own GS455 Stage 1 cars..
The manual transmission camshaft was optional in the 1970 W-30 with automatic transmission, but the standard automatic transmission camshaft was different. For whatever reason, Vista Cruiser station wagons came with W-30 exhaust manifolds.
@@andylappin4801 Yes, Olds went all out in 1970 and that was one of the options. In 68 and 69 it only came in manual transmission W-30 400's, but when Olds went with a Tornado type camshaft in 1970 automatics, they made the 328 camshaft an option in them.
@@andylappin4801 I have seen it listed as a option and somebody once published how many were factory assembled. I don't recall the number, but it wasn't many. It was not the standard camshaft if somebody ordered automatic, but it was listed as an additional option. Remember Olds pulled all the stops in 1970, with aluminum intakes, fiberglass and W27 rears. The standard 1970 W30 automatic cam was smaller than the 1969 W30 400 with automatic.
@@musclecarcampy9922 A fan since day one Campster, but I never knew any gearhead who specified "pound feet". When ever I hear people spout that, I tell them to "pound sand". It's always been foot lbs in my neighborhood. I believe Motors repair manuals from the 60s specified "ft/lbs" also. Anyway, who cares. It's all apples and oranges in the end. :)
I am sure it does, but it is 2024 now, not 1968. Ronnie Sox could have used the best automatic at the time, the 727, but he didn’t get the name Mr. 4-Speed by using one.
@@musclecarcampy9922 believe it or not I run modern cars on the streets with my 3-speed. My 496 make gobs of low end torque. Most people don't understand it's the combination that makes a car fast. I get what you are saying though. 😆
With this olds being a four speed W-30 it has a hotter cam than the W-30 automatic cars. This gives the four speeds an advantage over the automatics in acceleration and power
