My car is like that.

@Donald Lentz Yup to that.

It's an old line I've heard mostly with old Caddies

Smiles per gallon

Wait... is that miles per gallon or gallons per mile?

+austen lockhart I know Right?(LOL!!!)

Bottoming out one time didn't do that to the headers, that's been happening for a while, back in the day, all our headers looked that way.

it's called "clearancing"

@@bigredc222 it only takes one time to crush headers. I hope that Jay had a new set put on. Whoever paved the highway was a clown.

It's going to keep happening unless they are custom fit, I don't think the guy needs Jay to buy him a new set of headers. He probably wouldn't let Jay buy them anyway.

I agree.

olds 455 ran oil injection

Absolutely

doubt it

Actually, I would leave the car just like that... could you imagine? "What happened here? Oh, Jay Leno did it" I would love to have my car with a dent made by Jay Leno, suddenly, your car is worth 3 times as much.

Matt Jackson You guys are referring to Old's add's that changed from year to year, Jay should fix the exhaust anyone that drives a lowered car should know better.

Your reminiscence adds to the fun of the video!

It was a Oldsmobile 400 Rocket with 2 Edelbrock 4 barrel carburetors. There were a few 442s that had the Old's 455 Rocket with 2 Edelbrock 4 barrel carburetors.

@@tskraj3190 , my friend bought the famous Hurst Olds. What a ride your car and the Hurst Olds were. Yes, I forgot the W-30 Olds Thank you so much for the memories.

Matt Jackson nice story buddy 👍🏻🇬🇧

My dad had a 68 coupe. He sold it before I was born though sadly. My favorite American muscle car of all time. Looks so badass

+onemorebrando some say two door coup

2= positraction rear end!

Wish I still had my 69 as well. Oh, the mistakes of our youth. :-(

I miss 1969 Olds 442

And custom plates thar read IEATZ28

Olds was the best quality of all the GM stuff in those days for sure.

If it was still alive they wouldn't make em like they did in 69

Nope those headers were too long for street use.. Hung way too low..

I took my first road test in my friend's'69 Cutlass with the 330 High Compression Motor and a high stall torque converter, it chirped the tires every time it shifted. He failed me by 1-Point!!

@@robinreiley1828 - My father, and then my older brother, had a stock Cutlass. I don't remember the year or what size engine it had. It wasn't a 442 but it did have the same blue color paint as the one in this this video. One thing interesting about the body design was how rounded it was. That sticks in my mind and I've tried to find out about it but all the Cutlasses I see online are all 442's. You wouldn't happen to know anything about it would you? (Sorry about the sketchy information)

Black don't Crack

27pattywhack2 yes they do, they smoke it!

MrKdr500 there more white people on crack than black

27pattywhack2 everyone cracks

Catya Fapen They're

He is a guitar player. Amazing is unnecessary.

THE BUMPER SHOULDN'T PUSH THAT FAR UP.

The only thing I disliked the 1969 Cutlass is the bumper in the middle giving a weird underbite appearance.

Could you imagine he gives you a ticket 10 years down the road for speeding 😂

James Davey Lmaooooooo

Good idea!

Agreed!!

All that money and WRONG MOTOR. This is NO LONGER A 442.

No issues with his choice to drop in a Chevy big block. Sounds like there might have been some drama in getting the original motor rebuilt? Personally though I feel the stock engine had more than enough torque and HP, especially when running stock rubber.

@@mikecalabrese28 There is no problem of rebuilding an Olds V8 and they are still available as cores. I myself have about 8 cores cheaply. It is just a cheap way of putting a crate motor an made a great car just a fake.

poppet vavled loop scavenged

Hey Guys ..The headers have kissed the pavement more then the two times that it happened in this episode. Take another look, they have quite a bit of material taken off of them. And that did not happen from this go round...

jsh3234 I thought so too…you can spot where different hits were harder than others.

wasn't the first time and won't be the last until he replaces those drag racing springs.

The way the guy talked, it sounded like he hit the headers many many times before. And I'm sure Jay fixed him up, Jay is a great guy like that

You know Jay hooked him up with new headers probably better one's that what the car already had

won93r I thought it was a chevelle

That was a chevelle

Cops were always after my dad in his custom Chevelle SS too. He was a GM designer.

My Dad had a gold one as well. I turned 16 in 1969 and he used to let me drive it! Not sure what he was thinking, boy did I drive the snot out of it. It stood up to all the abuse though, a great car. I saw a gold 69 for sale at Barrett Jackson, it went for 34k. Kicking myself for not getting it. So many great memories

***** No, it's got a 598 cu. in. motor and 5 mpg is probably a good mileage. You have to remember back in 1972 before oil prices when to the moon up here gas was 25 cent an imperial gallon. Those were the days.

***** 750 horsepower has to come from somewhere. Hence 5 mpg.

Malibu Blue But the ride height is just a hair too low. Sure did a job on the headers.

Looks like the headers got whacked pretty hard!

there was rust deep in one of those scrapes.

no lol thos headers have bottomed out more than once...

+roastbeefdinner the...?

He's a real car guy! He got quiter for the rest of the ride.

Jay should have to pay for repair.

Jim Purl He probably did, he is incredibly wealthy after all.

Probably had one of his mechanics fix them.

That's what you get when you outfit a car with Hotchkis suspension. If it had chassisworks coilovers that wouldn't have happened. My car bottomed out all the time back when I had Hotchkis. And mine is almost 1000lbs lighter than that 442

Christopher O. You're kind of right and kind of wrong. The musical engine thing didn't really pick up steam till the mid to late 70s (76-on) By the 80's GM had settled on the "corporate" motors meaning they took the small block Chevy for V8's, the Buick V6 and usually a Chevy 4 banger for economy cars. In the era of this 442, however, your engine matched the brand of the car. Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, Chevrolet and even Cadillac all had independent development sharing only minor engine accessories like alternators and power steering pumps. You weren't going to find a Chevy motor even by accident in any olds in 1969. For one thing the engine mounts and details like the BOP rear-ends and transmission bell housings were unique to non-Chevy GM applications. GM divisions operated more independently than they do now. These days the only thing unique about most cars is the badge. How many rebranded Toyotas or Mitsubishi's were labeled Chevy for example. No, people can do whatever they want to their cars and I while understand all too well just how hard it is to get parts for a 400 or 455 Olds motor, this car is more of a resto-mod built to drive and have fun. As such it's not much good as a historical reference outside of its body shape. That's what gets the purists upset about it.

Agreed on all counts. The weirdest example I can think of is the '79-'81 Trans Am. When Pontiac ceased production of its own V8 engines, they started equipping leftover TAs with 403 Olds engines. When I attended auto shop classes at el Camino College back in the late 80's, a classmate's father purchased a brand new 1987 Chevrolet Caprice Classic wagon. It came with a 307 Olds motor. Another interesting one was the '89 ( ? ) Pontiac Trans Am Pace Car Edition with the 3.8 liter Buick turbo V6.

Christopher O. Yes, the Trans Ams from the late 70's to 81 had the some of the most varied engine options from multiple sources. The 400 Pontiac, 403 olds, 301 Pontiac (turbo to replace the 403) and in some years even a 305 chevy. My first car was an 81 V6 Camaro and my friend also had an 81 Camaro with a V6 except that mine was a 229 Chevy and his was the 231 Buick motor. By the end of the 80's the GM corporate motor edict was firmly in place. The only real exception to all this corporate stuff was Cadillac when they had their Northstar V8's. and engines like those weird 4.1 liter variable displacement V8's Their down-level cars like the Cimarron shared running gear with it's GM stable mates like the Cavalier and the Firenza. I also remember the awful corporate V6's like the 173Ci (2.8) that showed up in everything from trucks to Firebirds. At least these days the corporate motors aren't so horrendous. You buy a GM car, even a Caddy and you're going to end up with and LSx V8 or a variant of the venerable Buick 3,8 (in the 90's became the 3800 series of V6's) and even some awesome 4 bangers with a few foreign engines for the econoboxes many of which are just rebadged Toyotas.

Of any engine he COULD'VE swapped it with, the Chevy is the closest.

the other thing too, is, if you want that amount of cubic inches and power, you likely aren't using an OEM block--probably a Dart block with relocated cam tunnel, Merlin heads with different valve angles, Scat or billet crank, Crower rods etc. So an engine in this class is probably about as "Chevy" as it is anything else. In the 1980's GM had an "olds" engine with "pontiac" heads for the pro stock and serious street racers.

Awesome Car

Amen

His will be done.

yup - on my 69 I just stripped off some insulation from a wire and slip it over the mounting area to snug it up (the end with the screws to the roof) - all good

Stephen Morgan, have your eyes checked.."never visually appealed to you"?! The 69 through 73 4-4-2's are some of the best Looking Muscle Cars of ALL TIME

That's why GM gave you the Chevelle SS, Pontiac GTO/Lemans/Tempest, and Buick Skylark Gran Sport! Pick the style you like! All basically the same vehicle.

I agree. The Olds was a squared off Chevelle. That being said, this car has been done well enough to overcome all that. I do like it in a way that I never would have thought.

It'll be fine

+Bill Garlitz the owner can buy as many headers as you can dream of. He doesnt need jay

no thos headers have bottomes out more than once..

Pfft, honestly, that was the car owner's fault. Who else is to blame for making the car undrivable on the street?

NafanyaZX maybe it's the street that is undriveable...

guguigugu Of course, it takes a certain type of road to bottom out. But stock cars come prepared for that. The rest of the traffic barely even notices it. Jay often takes the same route and this is the first time we've seen this happen.

NafanyaZX this would not happen on the autobahn :P

guguigugu Man kann nicht alles haben. Wir haben die Autobahn, sie haben den günstigen Sprit.

Nostalgia and style negate weight, aerodynamics, and rolling resistance. If you care about aerodynamics don't drive a 50 year old car...

Don't let looks fool you, Countach's aren't aerodynamic (in the .040-.050 cd range) and could weigh as much as 3500+lbs depending on the model. Pretty much equal to a GM A-body overall. Although i'd wager a A-body is probably more aerodynamic (mid - high .30 cd range maybe)

A 1990 Lexus ls400 is 2x as aerodynamic as a countache

Steven P Or drive a Tatra 87. LOL

Aerodynamics isn't much of a factor at modest city driving speeds. Great show, I love how Jay interacts with his guests, an he has great guests.

American roads need work

I've seen but I still think ours could be better but I'm kinda spoiled by I-5 the section I'm always on just got repaved

Ekd have you been to WV? The pot holes here are intense lol.

Ekd where you live? The I-5 getting repaved seems too good to be true lol

Needs ride hight adjustment

From a different manufacturer

hahahaha