Fuselage fenders! Flathead straight-8 engine! Double-duty bumpers! The '42 Olds was a great-looking machine, but unfortunately the real bombshells that were dropping in depressingly large quantity that year put the kibosh on its production. At least you could get more or less the same car in 1946!
A Bombshell For 1942: Oldsmobile B-44!
11:00 AM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By Murilee Martin
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Fuselage fenders! Flathead straight-8 engine! Double-duty bumpers! The '42 Olds was a great-looking machine, but unfortunately the real bombshells that were dropping in depressingly large quantity that year put the kibosh on its production. At least you could get more or less the same car in 1946!



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Old steel and a Cow catcher front bumper It don't get much better.
Must. Flock. To. See.
boats, i mean cars like this is why WE won the war, not max mosley's war boys
We need more cars named like bombers.
Damn what a gorgeous car!
I'd rather pull up to the country club in one of these than, say, a new Bentley.
Seriously.
Triple-duty bumpers were planned for '43. Damn war.
I wish women still wore hats.
I think '42 was the year the fenders flowed back into the doors across the GM line. Well, Cadillac might have had this earlier, I can't remember.
This looks like something that would have been shown in a movie theater.
Gotsa have me that pimpin' ride. !!
Once I met a guy that had a Olds 455 in a beautiful 49 New Yorker. Nice ride.
I like that front end design much better.
Husky's a great adjective. It's like "fat" with the demeaning connotation removed.
I want one. "Beauty with a double chin--" does it get any better than that? Well, yes, if you have an Edmunds intake mounting two Stromberg 97s and a set of Fenton cast iron headers. I just read a book from 1950 about making stock-block engines produce more power, and now I really want a flathead straight-six or straight-eight.
@DonSchenck: Well, see there? You're not an idiot after all!
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