[Featured image by Riley via Wikimedia Commons | Cropped and scaled | CC BY 2.0] The Oldsmobile 455 V8 made its way to the public a couple of years before the Pontiac 455. Nicknamed the Rocket 455 ...

Or should we say Oldsmobile was waiting for everyone else to come out and play the muscle game in 1949 with the ‘Rocket’ 88 ... putting together 4-4-2s with 455 cubic inches of motor ...

The 1968 Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds was shipped to Demmer Engineering who crammed the Olds 455 Rocket V8 under the hood. The Olds Big Block generated 390 horsepower and 500 pound-feet of pavement ...

As a parenthesis, Oldsmobile had a two-year advantage in the cubic-inch arms race over its corporate cousins after the division made the Hurst-Olds 455 possible in 1968. So, even after a six-model ...