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Oldsmobile 442 Hurst Hairy Olds Twin-Engine 4WD 1966 Highway 61 1:18

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Oldsmobile 442 Hurst Hairy Olds Twin-Engine 4WD 1966 Highway 61 1:18 50089 Diecast
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Highway 61's 1:18 diecast reproduces the "Hairy Olds", Hurst's twin-engine, four-wheel-drive Oldsmobile 442 exhibition drag car. A genuine motorsport oddity for collectors of 1960s American exhibition racing.
Oldsmobile 442 Hurst Hairy Olds Twin-Engine 4WD 1966 Highway 61 1:18
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Specifications
Car Brand
Oldsmobile
Model Manufacturer
Highway 61
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
50089
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About the Oldsmobile 442 Hurst Hairy Olds Twin-Engine 4WD 1966 Highway 61 1:18

TL;DR: This Highway 61 1:18 diecast reproduces the "Hairy Olds", Hurst's twin-engine, four-wheel-drive Oldsmobile 442 exhibition car from 1966. Built for match-race spectacle rather than class competition, it suits collectors of genuinely unusual 1960s drag machinery.

Two engines and four driven wheels in a single drag car sounds like a gimmick, and to a degree it was, but the Hairy Olds genuinely ran match races on the strip and became one of the era's memorable exhibition attractions.

Highway 61's Coverage of Exhibition Drag Cars

Highway 61 built its name modelling exactly this kind of specialist American drag subject, the exhibition and match-race machinery that mainstream diecast houses tend to skip in favour of familiar muscle car street versions. The twin-engine layout, mounted front and rear, is a genuinely unusual configuration to model, and the tooling captures both power units and the reinforced chassis structure the setup demanded. The Hurst branding and period paint scheme are applied with the flat, honest graphics style typical of mid-tier diecast, and the model carries real metal weight consistent with the rest of Highway 61's catalogue.

A Genuine Curiosity for a Drag Racing Shelf

Exhibition cars like the Hairy Olds rarely fit a strict class-by-class drag racing chronology, and that is precisely their appeal: they were built to draw crowds rather than win championships. Displayed as a standalone talking point or alongside other twin-engine and match-race oddities, this model rewards a collector who wants their drag shelf to include the genuinely strange alongside the merely fast.

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