Game Changer: The 1949 Oldsmobile Rocket V-8

To name the most influential American car of the postwar era might be an impossible task, but here’s one blue-ribbon candidate: The 1949 Oldsmobile. Some automotive pundits like to say the 1949 Oldsmobile 88 was America’s first muscle car, but we think that misses the mark. In 1949, the term “muscle car” didn’t yet exist. No one would have known what you were talking about. The real muscle car era as we know it, and as it came to be understood, begins in 1964… read more >