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    A Bombshell For 1942: Oldsmobile B-44!

    By Murilee Martin, 11:00 AM on Thu Apr 10 2008, 2,719 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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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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