In the February edition of Muscle Car Review they have what they say a 65 Cutlass 442 in the treasure hunt section. To me the grill looks like its from a 64 so I was wondering did the magazine make a mistake?
http://img27.imageshack.us/my.php?image=olds65ec1.jpg Here is the picture sorry its not the best.

 

It's a 65 with a 64 front end, it has 65 body side mouldings, the 64 front will bolt on to the 65 and as well as the other way around, I bought a 64 with a 65 front end on it. It was a complete front from a VC core support, radiator, inner fenders as well.

 

Muscle Car Review make a mistake? Surely you jest, it could never happen...

Yah right. I've seen more outright bullshit printed as fact in that magazine than almost any other car mag I've ever read. Its current iteration does not compare to the days when it was simply Car Review, with people like Terry Boyce and Tony Hossain writing. People who knew what they were talking about, in other words.

 

Alright that makes sense, I just never seen some one take a 64 front end and put it on a 65.

So I take it you dont like the magazine...lol. I just bought it 30 minutes ago to see how it was. Muscle Machines seems alot better so far.

 

Funny you should mention that. I had a 65 442 convert back in college. The front end was crunched and all I could find was a 64 front end, so that's what I put on. Later I did find the correct 65 nose and swapped.

 

My friend just showed me an old MC reveiw magazine with an all original 69 W32 convertible with a 4 speed. You could see the scoops were 68's because of the width. Don't those writers and editors know the cars? I only saw one 69 W32 20 years ago the guy bought it new and it had black inner fenders and that caused alot of critisism from the Olds crowd. He would get mad and say " I bought the car new and they were black"
Sometimes weird things happened but a 64 and a 65 mixed together?

 

I think it helps to understand the dynamics here. It is virtually impossible for a magazine staff to be knowledgeable about every make out there. Especially a less mainstream make like Oldsmobile. So in most cases, information and cars they feature are described by others, like the car owners. It isn't practical to totally research every bit of info they are given.
But what they *can* do is not try to act like they know it all and attribute the information to where it came from. Which interestingly would get them off the hook for the accuracy.

 

Just enjoy the magazine for the pretty pictures, haw haw!

 

And for those he might want to attempt such a front end swap its all or nothing because 64 fenders are slightly shorter than the 65 so its all gotta go

 

All 1969 W-32 cars came with black inner fenders.

As for the front end swap, this was often done as part of collision repair. I've seen more than one 68/69 hybrid car, for example.

 

Like mine, for example....