The Oldsmobile 455 V8 made its way to the public a couple of years before the Pontiac 455. Nicknamed the Rocket 455, this engine was the next step in Oldsmobile's big block line of V8s ...

There are people that will tell you that the 455ci Oldsmobile Rocket motor makes a better street engine than a race motor. In truth, a stock 455 does have a couple of drawbacks that are ...

Photo: YouTube/Lou Costabile By 1970, the Toronado was rocking the biggest Oldsmobile engine available, the 455 Rocket V8, with its enormous 455-cube displacement (7.5 liters) and equally ...

Yeah, you could argue that. But it also led to innovation. It was 1968 when Oldsmobile unveiled the Rocket 455. This engine was the biggest offering of a trio of engines (400, 425, and 455 ...

Introduced in 1968 as part of Oldsmobile's second-generation V8 engine line, the 455 was immediately adopted across a wide range of vehicles, and for good reason. Taking the "Rocket" name from its ...

1968 was the first and only year the Delmont 88 shipped with the flagship Oldsmobile engine, the 455-cubic-inch (7.5-liter) big block Rocket V8, as an upgrade to the base 330-cubic-inch ...

The Oldsmobile 455 Cubic Inch “Rocket” V-8 is one of the biggest and baddest engines that played a pivotal role in cementing the Oldsmobile Cutlass 442's reputation as an iconic American ...

General Motors had sent an edict that no car smaller than full-sized would be produced with anything larger than a 400-cid engine, but Oldsmobile pushed its Rocket V8 up to 455. It did it by ...

With the GM corporate engine displacement limitation on mid ... It is powered by the 455 cubic-inch Rocket V8 with a single four-barrel carb, producing 390 horsepower and an eye-watering 500 ...

Nowadays, GM engines are shared across all divisions ... aside from the displacement. The Olds Rocket 455 was a truly unique V-8, especially the W30 variant, that powered some of the rarest ...

In 1970, General Motors lifted the cap on fitting engines over 400 cubic inches of displacement into midsize cars. Oldsmobile promptly took advantage of this and stuffed the 455 cubic-inch Rocket ...

both the most desirable Olds muscle cars ever built. The ’68 was finished in silver and black while the ’69 came in white and gold. Both featured 455-inch Rocket V8 High Output engines with ...