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In 1966 Olds offered the L69 engine option for the 442. It was simply a 3X2 setup with mechanical secondaries on a standard 442 400 engine. Only 2,129 L69 equipped 442s made it into consumers hands for the model year: about 11% of total 442 production. All options like PS, PB, Bucket Seats and AC were all available with the L69.





Starting in the summer of 1966, Oldsmobile upped the ante with the "Fresh Air Option" W-30 package. Announced in May and available starting in June. This was a totally different L69 built to take on NHRA's C/Stock, it was only available with bench seat, 4 speed, 4.33 posi rear and manual drum brakes. Olds built 54 of them. Each of the chrome air cleaners is numbered 1 to 54. All the race parts (except the balancing and blueprinting which Olds did at the factory) was available O-T-C as the "Track Pak"

The New England-based Andresen/Woodland W-30 won the C/Stock class at the '66 Indy Nationals.


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----Woodland and Andreson also raced very successfully in 67 and 68 and later were sponsored by the Smothers Brothers. In 66 and 67 they were sponsored by Brainbeau Oldsmobile in Braintree MA. Brainbeau folded up later in 67 and the team moved to Berejik Olds. My 67 W30 was owned by both Woodland and Andreson, but was never raced by them. I bought it from Woody thru an intermediary. Sadly both Woody and Andresen have passed away (RIP). It is thought that my car was ordered to go after the NHRA CSA record but when Brainbeau closed its doors the dealer retailed the car.....Bill S
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Unlike other '66-'67 Chevelle Super Sports posted here, this beautiful Chateau Slate '66 has it right on proper grille extension black-out. One of my peeves and easily remedied.
Has '67-'68 style mag covers though.

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Unlike other '66-'67 Chevelle Super Sports posted here, this beautiful Chateau Slate '66 has it right on proper grille extension black-out. One of my peeves and easily remedied.
Has '67-'68 style mag covers though.

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I think our 67' SS 396 had the same covers ...
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In 1966 Olds offered the L69 engine option for the 442. It was simply a 3X2 setup with mechanical secondaries on a standard 442 400 engine. Only 2,129 L69 equipped 442s made it into consumers hands for the model year: about 11% of total 442 production. All options like PS, PB, Bucket Seats and AC were all available with the L69.





Starting in the summer of 1966, Oldsmobile upped the ante with the "Fresh Air Option" W-30 package. Announced in May and available starting in June. This was a totally different L69 built to take on NHRA's C/Stock, it was only available with bench seat, 4 speed, 4.33 posi rear and manual drum brakes. Olds built 54 of them. Each of the chrome air cleaners is numbered 1 to 54. All the race parts (except the balancing and blueprinting which Olds did at the factory) was available O-T-C as the "Track Pak"

The New England-based Andresen/Woodland W-30 won the C/Stock class at the '66 Indy Nationals.


Looks like a snake pit under there ...
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In 1966 Olds offered the L69 engine option for the 442. It was simply a 3X2 setup with mechanical secondaries on a standard 442 400 engine. Only 2,129 L69 equipped 442s made it into consumers hands for the model year: about 11% of total 442 production. All options like PS, PB, Bucket Seats and AC were all available with the L69.





Starting in the summer of 1966, Oldsmobile upped the ante with the "Fresh Air Option" W-30 package. Announced in May and available starting in June. This was a totally different L69 built to take on NHRA's C/Stock, it was only available with bench seat, 4 speed, 4.33 posi rear and manual drum brakes. Olds built 54 of them. Each of the chrome air cleaners is numbered 1 to 54. All the race parts (except the balancing and blueprinting which Olds did at the factory) was available O-T-C as the "Track Pak"

The New England-based Andresen/Woodland W-30 won the C/Stock class at the '66 Indy Nationals.


The red 66 W30 was my car from 2008 to 2014, those photos are from a HMM shoot in Phoenix.
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----Earntaz,,,Those are Tubies (AKA Tubular Automotive headers). Tubular Automotive was located in eastern Mass, and many, many New England gearheads ran them, as well as guys from rest of the country. Freed up a lot of room under the hood when the four front pipes went down and around the front crossmember. If you think about the time frame it made sense as most of the serious racers were running with the nose higher than stock anyway. Street guys might have gone elsewhere though, as you could flatten those tubes easily at close to stock height. My cousin ended up with a GT 500 Shelby through a trade that had Tubies and he was constantly cutting out sections that got flattened out.

----Paul,,,Loved that 66 W30!.....Bill S
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----Earntaz,,,Those are Tubies (AKA Tubular Automotive headers). Tubular Automotive was located in eastern Mass, and many, many New England gearheads ran them, as well as guys from rest of the country. Freed up a lot of room under the hood when the four front pipes went down and around the front crossmember. If you think about the time frame it made sense as most of the serious racers were running with the nose higher than stock anyway. Street guys might have gone elsewhere though, as you could flatten those tubes easily at close to stock height. My cousin ended up with a GT 500 Shelby through a trade that had Tubies and he was constantly cutting out sections that got flattened out.

----Paul,,,Loved that 66 W30!.....Bill S
Cool stuff!! I ran Hookers on my 69' W-30 ... they tucked up underneath pretty good. I remember back in the day many of the Mustang troops had headers somewhat like Tubies ...
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Cool stuff!! I ran Hookers on my 69' W-30 ... they tucked up underneath pretty good. I remember back in the day many of the Mustang troops had headers somewhat like Tubies ...
----Of course, others could have made similar headers. I just don't know who. Anybody have info on others?......Bill S
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