Top 10 Cars We Would Love To Restomod

August 13, 2018

1970 Oldsmobile 442

Source: eBay

Another classic muscle car that’s fallen down the couch cushions of history, the Oldsmobile 442 is hardly ever talked about today. That’s a shame. It’s a brutally handsome muscle car, which had both speed and fun by the bucketload. This Olds, from Troy, Michigan, is sitting at $12,600 at time of writing, but hasn’t yet met its reserve price. The car’s exterior looks to be in good shape, and while the interior needs work done, it’s hardly terrible.

We’d leave the exterior alone, but pull out the 455 CID. It’s got 70K miles on the clock, and we could do with a new powerhouse. There’s two plausible options for the new engine. You could either opt for a rebuilt 455, or go in an entirely new direction and grab something like an Indy Cylinder Head 572, and enjoy its 770 horsepower. This might be an effort to fit, but with some canny modifications, it could absolutely be done. The factory A/C could be replaced with Vintage Air, and the interior restored. Add a few little interior mods, and you’d have a fantastic restomod of a car that people seem to have forgotten existed.

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