1980 Oldsmobile 4-4-2: The Calais-Only 350, and 886 Built

This record's own dek states that the 4-4-2 (W-30) was a $1,425 black-or-white option on the Cutlass Calais coupe with the Cutlass line's only 350 V-8, and that the Standard Catalog counts 886 installed. This record's own overview states that a tertiary account describes the 1978-1980 4-4-2 as an option package on the downsized Cutlass, treating all three model years within a single section of its narrative.¹

This record's own key facts state that the Standard Catalog of American Cars describes the package as the W-30 option on the Cutlass Calais: black or white body paint, W-30 and 4-4-2 identification, gold accent stripes, a gold-painted grille, pillar, hood and top, sport aluminum wheels with raised-white-letter tires, sport mirrors, and the 350 four-barrel V-8 with automatic, an engine not available in any other Cutlass. They state that Oldsmobile's 1980 full-line catalogue offers the Cutlass Calais coupe "also ... with a sporty 4-4-2 package," while the mid-size catalogue captions it "now available with the sporty 4-4-2 package (not shown)."

This record's own production rows document 886 4-4-2 (W-30) packages installed on the Cutlass Calais coupe from a single catalogue lineage, alongside a separately scoped 26,269-car Cutlass Calais host-body total shown for scale only, since the catalogue does not state whether the 886 are included in it. This record's own production notes state that no color split of the 886 was found in a citable source, and that a widely repeated 540-black, 346-white split is held only as an unpublished lead.^1,1

This record's own prices section documents the 4-4-2 package at $1,425 on the Cutlass Calais coupe, alongside factory prices of $6,716 for the Calais coupe (K47) with the V-6 and $6,896 with a V-8, a $180 difference that reflects the base V-8 upgrade rather than the 4-4-2 content, since this record's own engines section notes the 4-4-2's 350 V-8 was not available in any other Cutlass and so was priced within the $1,425 package instead.^1,1

This record's own options section documents the Cutlass Calais's own standard equipment, the 4-4-2's host trim: a 3.8-liter V-6, automatic transmission, power steering, a Rallye gauge cluster, a special ride-handling package, reclining front buckets, halogen high beams, P195/75R14 radials, special painted wheel discs, and a custom sport steering wheel. It also documents equipment available across Cutlass coupes generally: removable roof panels, an electric sliding metal or glass sunroof, Super-Stock or cast aluminum wheels, P205/70R14 raised-white-letter tires, a limited-slip differential, two-tone paint, and a paint stripe, alongside a 108.1-inch wheelbase for the Cutlass Supreme and Salon coupes.

This record's own unpublished leads carry two disputed figures: an uncited tertiary claim of 886 built, split 540 black and 346 white, with a Cutlass Calais MSRP of $6,919.57, and a sale listing's claim of 883 built, offered as a correction to 886, describing the cars as gold over black or gold over white and 1980 as the last year of the Oldsmobile 350 in the car. This record does not adopt either figure over the catalogue-sourced 886, since neither the tertiary source nor the sale listing names a record behind its numbers.²