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It is presently extremely easy to get your hands on a muscle car from the golden era. Usually it doesn’t take more than a click or so to find and buy the machine of your dreams, but it might take a great financial effort as they are usually kind of expensive.
Stock muscle cars are valuable machines, and those selling them know that – this in turn reflects in the selling price, no matter if we’re talking about an auction or a sale on some specialized website.
But once in a while a bargain pops up, like the 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass 442 W-30 we have in the gallery above, listed at the time of this writing on Hemmings.
What’s sitting in the gallery above is actually a 1972 Cutlass S Holiday fitted with the heart of a 442 and enhancements usually found on the ultimate incarnation of the 442, the W-30.
Called a tribute, the car is described as a faster way of getting your hands on a king of muscle cars, “without the extra cost or value worries if the miles pile on or non-date-coded hose clamps are used under the hood.“
And by all intents and purposes, this uptick-ed Cutlass is a muscle car in its own right.
Originally, the car had the 350ci (5.7-liter) V8 fitted under the hood, but the reworked version features the four-barrel 455ci (7.5-liters) that became famous once the second generation of the model arrived in 1968. Wrapped in a paint called Matador Red, it sports the correct rear bumper, the one fitted with exhaust cutouts for the 455 engine that usually made its way on the 442 Cutlass, and W-30 fiberglass air-induction hood.
As said, the car is listed for sale as part of an online bidding. Three bids in, the value reached is just $2,000 (the reserve has not yet been met), but it has all the chances of going a lot higher than that.
But once in a while a bargain pops up, like the 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass 442 W-30 we have in the gallery above, listed at the time of this writing on Hemmings.
What’s sitting in the gallery above is actually a 1972 Cutlass S Holiday fitted with the heart of a 442 and enhancements usually found on the ultimate incarnation of the 442, the W-30.
Called a tribute, the car is described as a faster way of getting your hands on a king of muscle cars, “without the extra cost or value worries if the miles pile on or non-date-coded hose clamps are used under the hood.“
And by all intents and purposes, this uptick-ed Cutlass is a muscle car in its own right.
Originally, the car had the 350ci (5.7-liter) V8 fitted under the hood, but the reworked version features the four-barrel 455ci (7.5-liters) that became famous once the second generation of the model arrived in 1968. Wrapped in a paint called Matador Red, it sports the correct rear bumper, the one fitted with exhaust cutouts for the 455 engine that usually made its way on the 442 Cutlass, and W-30 fiberglass air-induction hood.
As said, the car is listed for sale as part of an online bidding. Three bids in, the value reached is just $2,000 (the reserve has not yet been met), but it has all the chances of going a lot higher than that.
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