"In the late 1960s and early 1970s Oldsmobile was in the high-performance business, with a continuing stream of F-85 based 4-4-2s
and W-cars. During this era these exotic motors were brought from the drawing
board to reality via a talented engineering group supported by John Beltz, who
would find his way to the top management chair at Oldsmobile."
Back in August of 1983, Dennis Casteele gave us a glimpse of three
high-performance Oldsmobile V-8s – a Hemi-headed design, a SOHC design
and a DOHC design – designed to do battle with some of the nastiest and
most exotic engines the competition offered in the heady days of the muscle car era.
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