When the fastest car in the world was an... Oldsmobile.

Faster than a Veyron, almost 20 years earlier. Back in the 1980s, Oldsmobile weren't exactly making the coolest cars. Sure, they had a back catalogue full of muscle, style and color, but post-malaise era their lineup had become decidedly monochromatic. That chroma being beige. The Aerotech project was dreamt up in an effort to change that. Oldsmobile wanted to set themselves apart from the GM family as a performance brand, and how else do you do that than by creating a pair of the fastest cars in the world? Starting with the closed-course and flying mile records we discuss in this video, the Aerotech program collected a total of 47 speed records, including achieving an average speed of 180 mph over a distance of 25,000 kilometers. Or, in Bald Eagle English, 31 Indy 500s. The later cars have lived in GM's museum since they finished their tour, but the first two cars hadn't been seen in decades, thought to be lost forever. But here they are, fully restored, done mostly by the people who built them in-period, and ready to fly again.