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The 1965-1970 version of GM's full-size B Platform was one of The General's greatest successes, underpinning nearly 13 million cars. Each of the U.S.-market GM car divisions had their own B-Bodies during those model years, from the proletarian Chevrolet Biscayne on up to the opulent Buick Wildcat.
However, most GM cars in 1968 were still powered by engines made by their own divisions, in those pleasant days before the"Chevymobile" lawsuits . That meant that when you bought an Olds 88 that year, it came with a genuine Rocket V8 engine under its hood. In this case, the engine is a monstrous Quadrajet-fed 455-cubic-inch Rocket rated at 365 horsepower and an awe-inspiring 510 pound-feet. The '68 Olds Toronado came with an even hairier 455 that made 400 horses, by the way.
Naturally, this car required premium gasoline and probably never saw double-digit fuel economy at any time, but few Oldsmobile shoppers cared about that until certain geopolitical events took place in 1973. If you bought the 1968 Delta 88 with the base three-on-the-tree manual transmission — that's right, you had to pay extra for an automatic even on a snazzy machine like this — you could get a 310hp 455 that would run on regular gas.
Speaking of aviation history, the build tag tells us that this car was built at GM's original Fairfax Assembly in Kansas City. That's where North American Aviation built B-25 Mitchell bombers during World War II, selling it to The General in 1945. F-84F Thunderstreaks were assembled alongside cars there by GM during the early 1950s.
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