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I am an Olds guy and just found this via link from an Olds forum. First, not to be nit picky but the closest thing I found to a '64 442 air cleaner is to take 2 4bbl '65 GTO air cleaner, cut the snorkel off one, shape it a bit and stick it on the other. The Toro air cleaner is too big and flat. Also, you could use the '66 442 conv for a correct 4bbl intake and you get the a/c set-up as well to compliment the a/c firewall. The hardtop 442 has the a/c firewall but no a/c which I have yet to find a nice non a/c firewall to replace it. I built the R&R '65 442 which was my first resin kit and man, what a pain it was, I pretty much mirrored what is being shown here, putting the '66 under it and it took a bunch of work, even more with the ideas I kept coming up with, it didn't turn out as nice as the '64 but it is a decent representation of a '65. Also, here is a pic of a correct '64 442 air cleaner to get ideas

That's sad as I've seen in a catalog alot of Olds stuff from R&R. Who else has Olds stuff? I also need a few things from the '66 442 conv kit for the '64, I'm thinking about adapting the '66 chassis to the '64 to update it.

I sure hope so. The R&R '65 was a pain to make work and being my first ever resin kit kinda left a bad taste in my mouth for resins. It ain't perfect but it's nice, I used a '66 442 conv kit. Saying that, with the '65 almost done, it completes my 1964-1972 442/Cutlass collection. I got lucky and found a built '64 on ebay, got it for a song, took it apart and re-did it, turned out nice!

That is for the hood latch and actually, there was 2 or 3 different grill changes for the '66 442. I have 3 of these cars. This version is what my first car looked like when new This version is when I got it in 1988 for the hefty sum of $650. This version is what I want my current '66 to look like which is based on a F-85 with the 442 option. Lemme throw in a little something I'm tinkering with now to prove my Olds loyalty