One of the most influential American vehicles of the 20th Century, the 1949 Olds 88 has the pedigree to be one of the most desirable US-built classics, but instead, it's sometimes cheaper than a ...

Introduced in 1963, the Pontiac GTO is widely recognized as the first muscle car. However, some argue that the first muscle cars were built in the 1950s, and the GTO was only responsible for making ...

Running everything from NASCAR races to moonshine smuggling, the Oldsmobile Rocket 88 engine became (in)famous for its reliably peppy V8 drivetrain.

The Rocket 88 ruled the road and the race track, becoming the launching pad for the musclecar era. It was more by accident than design that General Motors’ now-vanquished Oldsmobile brand gave birth ...

Debuting with the 1949 model year, the Oldsmobile 88 soon became the brand’s image leader and most profitable line in the rapidly expanding post-World War II economy. The sleek new lines of the 88 ...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: "Big Daddy" Ed Roth built the fun stuff, wild, whimsical cars that tickled the fancy and pickled a kid's imagination for life. Back in the day when Roth was ...

Rocket 88 Trivia Question of the Week: 1. What was the full name of Oldsmobile’s founding father; how was he connected to a famous truck make and what was the connection between his name and a famous ...

The first muscle car was left behind… It is said that the first American muscle car was the Rocket 88, a vehicle that combined high horsepower with good looks and a great engine. Perhaps there is some ...

Oldsmobile's swell sales slogan for 1951 may have been a less-memorable "Ride the Rocket and Save!", but it was the auto manufacturer's pitch a year prior following the release of their all-new line ...

Q: Greg, I’m very much interested in muscle cars and am happy to see your columns in our area newspaper. I’d like to know if you agree that the first muscle car was a 1949 Oldsmobile 88? Also, can you ...

The Oldsmobile Rocket 88 hit showrooms in 1949, and might have been a fairly unremarkable car had Oldsmobile’s engineers not decided to shoehorn a powerful V8 motor, originally destined for its bigger ...

Many of the cars released in the years immediately following the conclusion of WWII were lightly massaged prewar models. But not the '49 Oldsmobile 88. It's styling was clean, simple, futuristic -- ...