You meet the Oldsmobile Rocket 88 at a turning point, when American cars were just starting to trade postwar restraint for raw attitude. Slip a hot new V8 into a relatively light body and you get a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 2022 SEMA Show (November 1-4) is inching closer by the hour. Thus, everyone has the perfect idea for becoming the star attraction. Both in the real world and across the virtual realm. In the real ...

The Oldsmobile Rocket V8 did more than make one model quick in a straight line. It forced Detroit’s engineers to rethink how much power, efficiency, and durability could be packaged into a compact, ...

This 1957 Oldsmobile Super 88 Convertible mirrors everything in the studio on its shiny red paint. The model has just undergone a frame-off restoration and looks better than it did the day it rolled ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 -- ...

Check out that glistening, black Rocket 88 at right. That's me in the cowboy outfit, leaning up against my father's Oldsmobile, a 1950 Eighty-Eight two-door club coupe. Nineteen-fifty marked the ...