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Oldsmobile rarely gets the muscle car respect that Chevrolet, Dodge, and Pontiac take for granted, but the W-30 package hiding under this 1969 442 argues otherwise. V8TV pulled this rare Canadian-delivered example, with its functional outside air induction system, straight from the Brothers Collection for Muscle Car of the Week. Few W-30 cars were built to begin with, and even fewer left the country. Find out what makes this one worth episode 98.

This 1969 Oldsmobile 442 W-30 is rare on two fronts: Oldsmobile built only 171 W-30 sport coupes that year, and just five of them were sold new in Canada. Its Force-Air Induction system fed cold air through hoses in the wheel wells straight into a Rochester four-barrel, backing a 400 cubic-inch V8 rated at 360 horsepower. Few muscle cars combine genuine factory performance hardware with this kind of documented scarcity.

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