The cars are all awesome 👌 and Maple boys are doing a great job at bringing all varieties and priced machines , you get what YOU can afford these American muscle cars are rare machines and I'm sure you talk with these guys they will find you what you want at around the shape your wallet says 👍 😀
I had a 1977 442 with the 403 cu lighter yellow. I ordered it. It was a lighter yellow color. Best car I ever had. It was stolen from my driveway back in 1987. I had it 10 years. The thing about it, I knew who stole it. I couldn’t get the police to check it out. I’m still pissed off
Had a black '74 Cutlass S my Senior year (76). Not super fast but a chick magnet. It sounded great. Had my first date with the girl I've been married to 45 years in that car. Also brought our baby girl home from the hospital in it.
I love this car with all my heart. I thought the 260 was a little lack luster, especially for muscle although I was lucky to find one with a 350 rocket. Its not in great condition, mostly rusted body and bad interior but it starts quick for being almost 50 years old and the frame is untouched. Absolutely one of my favorite cars of all time.
So the original 442 was four barrel four speed dual exhaust. . So this model what is it 40 horsepower 4-speed 2 barrel ?😯 Now that 68 Oldsmobile you got that represents the true Spirit of a 442 !!
Very cool car. 70s had some of the coolest styles ( all makes) . Can't stand people always putting down that they had no horsepower you can only go so fast.
@@truckerkevthepaidtourist You mean it got better. A 307 is more powerful than a 260. The 1977 is about 500lbs heavier than a 1984. The 1984 is faster than this dog.
In 1973 thru 77 Colonnade coupes like this Oldsmobile 442 was really just a stripe package with a hint of sportiness. Even if you got a big block it was starving for horsepower. Still a nice looking car though and priced right. One positive thing, in 79 this was the most winning body style in NASCAR and even Richard Petty drove an Oldsmobile. The most memorable event with this NASCAR body style during the 79 Daytona 500 when Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison got together in the final lap crashing their Oldsmobiles while Pettys Oldsmobile came through and won. The fight between Allison and Yarborough put NASCAR on the map.
The Buick Century GS still had some balls through 1974. I have a 74 I picked up 5 years ago, the engine had been rebuilt to high compression specs of 1970, plus some additional performance from a bigger cam, intake, etc....she really hauls and handles incredibly for a sizable car.
I love the cars that you show on here. Most are very fairly priced, but on this particular car, between the cracked dash, ripped seats, missing interior trim, nothing working, the amount of rust underneath, repaired floorboards, leaking almost every fluid, I'll give you $500 for it, lol
I ordered a 1977 442 with 403 in it. I could run 15:45 with it. It was the best car I ever had. I had just 10 years. Someone took it right out my driveway. I knew who had stolen it, but the police did not follow up on my idea. 10 years later, the guy that I thought who took it. Later the guy who thought it was, was telling someone that he did taken it! Yes I’m still pissed off!
Rock salt and a double barreled 12 gauge would make him miserable for quite some time at least the time will be miserable enough to give you pleasure and I'm sure I'd make his machine not so pretty 😉 just becareful
If you wanted a manual transmission in 76 the 260 was your only option, everything else got an automatic. I've always liked these cars, I had a 76 442 back in the early 80's.
That ole turd is a little on the rough side for the money, but thats the market right now junk is expensive clowns like Richard Rawlings and Barrett Jackson have killed the old car hobby for us common folk
My college car was a true 77' 442. It was AT and probably had a 301. Originally it was white/gold w/tan vinyl buckets/interior. I did all the body work and had it painted it maroon w/gold ralleys. I only kept the gold 442 on the trunk. I added true duals w/turbos. It was not muscle either but it was a sharp car from 10 feet away.
I traded a 76 Nova sleeper for the 76 Olds 442 black on gold black wheels...was a great highway car but the air went out middle of summer...loved it though!
spent many a Sunday cruising around in a car like that with my stepdad cruising around the state going to I m SA target shooting shows lot of fun memories in the car like that
@maplemotors, i hope you see this msg i dont know if you know what the noise is coming from under the hood but i had alot of old school v8 cars and can tell you that it needs a new clutch for the fan!
This one seems to run nice and 5 speed is very unusual in this car...nice cruiser with some sporty look....Just the car I like to pull up to in my GS455 .....hehe. Yup - Any older unrestored car will have it's laundry list of issues! Speedos, gas gages, AC failures, old brake lines and brake cylinders. I have years worth of work if I wanted to fix all of these things in my two vintage cars...You have to learn to live with allot of it unless it bugs you too much. I like driving em more then fixing the minor pain in the ass stuff.
@@angelo_giachetti I have a 79 cutlass with a factory 4 speed, with the orginal chevy 305, my most fun to drive cutlass, I also have 76, with 73,000 miles, 77 with a 403, and a 77 t top in the process of restoring,
just subbed bro you have my dream job , me and my son live in VA now and are saving up to come see you soon and buy one of these beautiful gems you guys find!
Man I tell you what, I grew up just North of Fort Campbell "home of the 101st baybay" and there was a guy that lived a couple blocks over from us that had one of these, but it was old school and I mean OLD SCHOOL, even by late 80's standards👌
Cool car, for the things that clearly need to be addressed (speedometer, ac, oil leak? etc) $11,900 seems a little rich for this car, maybe closer to the $7k-$8k range someone will bite. Still a cool car to drop a 350 in tho
Junk car if you drop in a 350 you'll need a trans too because the 5 speeds are so weak they won't take a 350 nice to look at. Pile of garbage for underpinnings
@@morecowbell69 thanks, I really only thought that because, of cars, such as the monza, and other small cars only having 4 speed transmissions. Thanks for the info.
I love your channel seeing all these old muscle cars I dig it I'm here in Canada I'm interested in purchasing one of these beauty's wasn't sure if this is feasible
Such a shame GM cheaped out so badly on the interiors of those cars! I'll bet that somebody has had the dash out of that one, probably for a heater core, judging by how much doesn't work, and the way the glovebox door is. I'll tell you what, the majority of non-working dash accessories I've found, were because of someone simply not reconnecting the wiring connectors.
This is a clone! My father sold Oldsmobile back in 1973 until 1985. He loved the 442 and drove them daily.... 260 5 speed was their budget car.... No 442 was ever made with this combo
A fine car, a good one to play around with and take the twerks out of it and give it your old girlfriends name, the one you gave up on that you prob shouldn't have... . If I lived closer to Maple motors I would be hard pressed not to own this diamond in the rough.
@@charlesatwell6658 it has electrical problems a brown interior and needs a new transmission to go with the car. Like 6 extra grand if you want a rebuilt olds and another 2 for a rebuilt th400 this is not worth it probably a one wheel peel too