As a longtime Cutlass owner and Hurst/Olds Club of America member, Bob Moyer knows a Hurst/Olds muscle car when he sees one — or at least he thought he did. Like other Hurst/Olds enthusiasts, he knows the first Hurst/Olds models were silver-and-black 1968 models, followed by white-and-gold 1969 models. Then the Hurst/Olds took a break until 1972 when new white-and-gold models came on the scene. It wasn’t until Oldsmobile debuted totally restyled Cutlass bodies for 1973 that a black-and-gold Hurst/Olds was added alongside the white-and-gold version. So when Moyer stumbled upon a rough 1970 Oldsmobile painted black and gold in 2005 and was told it was a Hurst/Olds, he figured he was being fed a load of malarkey.
“I thought I knew that they never made a ’70 Hurst/Olds, so I thought it was a clone, or some kid made the car up, but it was interesting and I inquired about it with the owner,” Moyer said. “He said it was a real Hurst/Olds, and I sort of said they never made any that year... and that’s where we left it.”
Nevertheless, Moyer was intrigued by the car, not because he believed it was a one-of-a-kind car, but because of the desirable Hurst/Olds trim on its black body and interior, its 455-cid V-8 and its bucket seats and console with the Hurst Dual-Gate shifter.
“I loved the parts
