I don’t know what it is about this car it’s just amazing. When I tell people that it doesn’t have power steering they make me open the hood to check because it steers so effortlessly the car is just a sweetheart. I have never had one like this in my shop that just has it’s soul.

The 455 with a bigger cam had a lot of torque .

I have a 65 with power steering and power brakes, air conditioning, automatic transmission with the 330 in it. It’s sat for nearly 20 years It needs a full restoration, but I still think it can be saved

I’ve never seen one of those really rare but GM parts super kool. 👍

Sure was! That amazingly beautiful Buick Riviera. Ahhhh

Up north, uncovered open ended lug nuts rusted solid to the studs and twisted the stud off when attempting to remove them... better to use the wonderful GM closed end stainless steel clad lug nuts... Was hoping this was a late '65 442 with newly getting available tripower... wanted to see what the intake manifold and air cleaner(s) looked like... GTO went to more powerful raised intakes in '65... When the 330" limit for midsize cars ended, a 400" limit was slapped on... Chevy increased the 396" to 402" but still called it a '396'... Buick's 401" became a '400'... Earlier, to get around 330" limit, '63 Pontiac 336" was called a '326'... later their '350' was 354"... SBC '400' is 401"...

Standard 442’s didn’t have the boxed frame. Only convertibles and a very rare option that came boxed. The 442 frame had extra gusseting, extra upper control arm mounting holes and a unique rear crossmember.

Hmm, I've been changing my own oil ever since I learned to drive on my 74 charger as my 1st car.

@@terryschnereger8531 Good if you have the place to do it.

who cares!

I do. Had a 68. Then put a 69 Delta 88 455 in a 76 Cutlass with junkyard manifold, quadrajet, electronic distributor, built turbo 400. Wasn't much off the line with 2.43 rearend. Sure ran on the float. So? Piss off. 🙄

@R Kirschner Like I said who cares!

I had a 68 cutlass but always thought the 69 was a tad nicer, I would buy a 69 442 today if I find a good one in my price range

@@richardmiller6422 I care

'Super High Compression' Rocket Power!

It’s bark emerald. Boy it’s tough to find material

Your comment made me think of 2 friends that we lost to drunk drivers. Gone too soon. Thinking of you guys Jay and Victor. ❤❤

@@danfarris135 His name was Todd Moevelli. I miss him after 32 yrs.

Raced a 361 with my '65 GTO using only the center carburetor... the 361 held in their respectably well...

@BuzzLOLOL The problem with my 65 Plymouth Belvedere was the 3 speed manual would bind up between 1st and 2nd. I fixed it by converting it to a 440 4 spd on the floor...

@@jonathangodbout6645 - That usually does the trick...

IT HAD to be BETTER than GM intermediates of that era! They handled HORRIBLY!

3 carbs one year only 1966. I could beat them with my 65 GTO but they pulled better in 4th.

@@waynekarjala2032 dealer installed option

In this case, should be 4442...

Good catch!

The third paint code letter was for the wheel color. If it matches the lower body color it had dog dish caps

Emerald green near impossible to find we are working on it, but it shouldn’t hold back from letting you view. Such a beautiful piece.

All I ever heard was the window mechanism rattling! These were POORLY BUILT cars!

@@johnmaki3046 !the 60s and 70s GM cars I owned were tight and RATTLE FREE! Opinions are like AHOLES, everybody has one.

@@dominickserignese8837 Sadly, we had this LEMON in the family for ten+ years! It RAN, this is the ONLY "quality" there!

That's good info. In Moparworld, we have it on the block.

Back then Buick put the torque rating on their engines, 445 was the 401 cubic inch nail head.

No mention of post coupe versus holiday coupe or rear boxed control arms??

That's not correct. The model 3827 was for the post coupe which doesn't mean it has the 442 option. The 442 didn't become it's own model until 1968 with the body codes of 4477 post coupe, 4487 holiday coupe or 4467 convertible. You are looking for the code 5VY at the left of the tag, but it's not always there. But the larger concern is the production date. If the car was made fifth week of July, how could the owner have purchased it on June 12th?

@@oldman-zr2ru I am aware of when it became a separate model. You are incorrect. The 442 option in 1965 could be had on the Club Coupe (3427), the Sports Coupe, (3827) and the Holiday Coupe (3837), as well as the convertible (3867). Yes, I made a typo, it should be the 5th week of July 1964. The reason why "it's not always there" is because each Fisher plant had different protocol as to how the tags were stamped. As this is a "Freaky Fremont" car, you're lucky it had a tag at all. The Fremont plant was a notorious plant full of drunks and druggies and was the worst in the GM system.

@@googleusergp No, you are incorrect. YOU stated above that the 3827 code meant it had the 442 option, wrong. I have the 65 service manual right in front of me. The 3827 code is for the Cutlass F 85 coupe with V8. That doesn't mean it's automatically a 442, that's an option on top of the 3827 code. I won't debate the production date with you but it seems rather odd the car would have a production number of 133xxx and be built in late July of 64 and then sit around on a lot somewhere for a year before being bought. Just odd. I have owned a few 65's and most of my experience is with Lansing cars but they weren't much better as option codes are almost never complete.

@@oldman-zr2ru Ok, Boomer, whatever you say. We'll leave it at that. No, that's incorrect. A vehicle could sit around for a year before it was sold. Not unlikely, since this was an odd color and short of any story from the original owner, we'll never know. Maybe it was a dealer demo and didn't get sold to the first retail customer for a while. How would I know that? My father was a GM car salesman and it happened all the time. I'm very much aware of the 442 being an option on that Fisher Body style. I'm going on the notion that this is a real 442 and is being advertised as such, hence I "made it" a 442, going on that. I'm very much aware of how to verify trim tags, VINs and all of that. Unlike you, I don't have to read the book every time to verify things. You do realize that sometimes each GM plant had their own sequence number starting series, correct? Ah, you do now, as I just told you. Each plant would at times have a starting sequence different than the others. There were several plants making these cars in those years, but since you're educating the world from the Oldsmobile shop manual, you know that again as well.

Apparently Olds made the 425 first, then when GM allowed cubic inches up to 400 in the A body Olds used blocks that were originally designed to be machined to 425 ci , so they reduced the bore to 4in from 4.125

400s in 65 had their own casting number. Crank and rods were shared with the 425.

@@thunderkiss1965 Right, and the 1965 lifters were .842 and in 66 and 67 the 400 had .921 lifters while the 425 had either.

Undersquare.

@@waynekarjala2032 thanks

First 330", then 400", then 455"... '63 Pontiac already ready 336" was called a '326' to slip under the 330 rule... Pontiac later claimed 330" limit only applied to size of 'base V8'... so made 389" an 'option'...

We will do a video

Farm tractor enamel laid on with a brush self-levels and looks pretty good... and only $25/gallon... also available in clear for clear coating... ...

It’s original what can ya do

@@highoctaneclassics3969 not replacing the leather of the seats you are loosing potential buyers

It’s vinyl

Firestones we’re not an optional tire. US royal was the supplier of redlines on 65 Oldsmobiles

@@thunderkiss1965 My 1966 GTO left the dealership with Firestone Deluxe Champion red lines.

Ok. You bought a GTO. Oldsmobile didn’t use Firestones.

@@thunderkiss1965 OK. I took too much for granted. Thanks for the correction.

Nobody, outside of Lansing Michigan, bought Olds police cars... they just named it that to get their muscle car past upper management...

In 64 yes, basically built with off the shelf parts they already had

In 65 the 4-4-2 used the 8.2 Pontiac 10 bolt.