Introduced in 1964, the Oldsmobile 442 became available with a Hurst floor shifter in 1965. Likewise, the first-gen Cutlass Supreme debuted with a similar option in 1966. Hurst components became so ...
The His and Hers shifter looks dated now, but the dual-gate engineering behind it still outshines modern software tricks ...
.04, .01, .01, .03, .45. No, it’s not a hidden code that would signal the allied forces of internal combustion to take over the world. However, the cars to which these numbers pertain would be the ...
Three shifters, one ordinary automatic, and a 1980s idea so strange it makes Porsche's fake-gear Taycan feel almost ...
The Lightning Rod shifter in today's Nice Price or No Dice Hurst/Olds sports three levers that allow a form of sequential shifting for its four-speed automatic. That makes it a wonderfully weird bit ...
The Hurst/Olds W-30 sits at the intersection of muscle car mythology and limited-production rarity, which is exactly why collectors still chase it hard today. Oldsmobile only paired the Hurst ...
We here at GM Authority have seen countless rides with a concours-level restoration and flawless presentation. This 1979 Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds W-30 is not one of those rides, but rather, looks to be a ...
The new crop of high-power electric vehicles like the Tesla Model S Plaid and the Rimac Nevera have brought the quarter-mile times of production cars down to new depths. But there’s still time to be ...
In 2016, Rich Moline sold his company and, with his wife Darlene, bought a second home in Reno, Nevada. Of course, if you're a car enthusiast and call Reno your home in the summertime, you're going to ...
The Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds didn’t begin as an Oldsmobile model, but rather developed from George Hurst’s relationship with Pontiac. The whole thing began when Pontiac installed Hurst shifters in the ...
In an age where people are comfortable with real lemons in their furniture polish and artificial ones in their lemonade, some things just don't seem right. Thankfully, Pro Stock racing hasn't gone the ...
There's no way a 1968-1972 Hurst/Olds would have ended up in a place like this, but the Malaise Era cars aren't as sought-after. Junkyard shoppers pried off the Hurst/Olds badges before I got to this ...