Posted on 12/14/2017 9:16:42 AM PST by re_tail20
This was definitely not your father’s Oldsmobile, because he never had the chance to buy it.
The last Oldsmobile ever built is going up for auction on Dec. 15. The 2004 Alero is still owned by General Motors and until recently was part of the GM Heritage Center collection.
The dark cherry sedan rolled off the line at Lansing Car Assembly in Michigan on April 29, 2004 and was signed under the hood and in the trunk by all of the workers at the now-shuttered plant.
GM had announced plans in 2000 to eliminate what was at the time America’s oldest car brand, due to its unprofitability. Pontiac, Saturn and Hummer would follow it into the history books a few years later, leaving the automaker with four core American brands: Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac.
The Alero is being offered at the State Line Auto Auction in Waverly, N.Y., which is one of GM’s top outlets for selling company-owned and off-lease cars. The automaker has not said why it has decided to let the car go...
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Nevermind the last one...just give me a ‘55 or ‘57 Super 88.
The probably want to sell it because its leaking fluids all over their garage floor
That’s been my experience with Oldsmobiles.
Ping.
Let me know when the last Chevrolet is for sale......................
I know why GM discontinued it, crappiest pile of engineering EVER.
Pontiac, Saturn and Hummer wer discontinued as part of the 2009 bankruptcy filing. What GM learned, painfully, in the Oldsmobile situation is that franchise value has to be compensated to dealers when you choose to shutter a marque. I think it ended up costing GM $2B to compensate all the former Oldsmobile dealerships. When the bankruptcy arrived in 2009 it was the ideal setting to scuttle the lines that were not performing - the franchise agreements were terminated within the bankruptcy and dealers were compensated very little by comparison to the Olds denouement.
(Not the actual car from the article, just a generic 2004 Alero.)
I'll give you $0.50, and I won't charge you a towing fee.
I’d rather remember the marquee as a convertible 442 with Linda Vaughn aboard than this milquetoast shopping cart.
Junk cars made by democrat union thugs. Spit!
For the life of me, I do not understand how General Motors is still in business.
Their cars are subpar, boring and ugly looking. They are undependable and have less than average resale value.
I’d sooner buy a Kia or Hyundai than a GM.
If anybody cared about Oldsmobile they’d still be selling them.
...totally boring car, with no real reason to exist.
Not a big olds fan but had a couple.
Had a 97 Aurora with a “shortstar” engine and that thing had a great growl and was a rocket sled considering is was luggin around approx 4,000 lbs.
My son’s first car was an 88 Toronado with 260k miles on it. Had smoked windows which were illegal in our state at the time(it was a Mich. car), course that’s how my son got his first ticket. Car’s probably still running...somewhere.
The best car I ever owned was a 65 Olds Delta 88 with a 360 HP 425 Rocket V8. I think the HP rating was very conservative.
It was my Father’s then my Brothers then mine. It was still running great when I sold it with well over 200,000 miles.
Other than routine maintenance I think the only repairs were 4 different water pumps which was basically a fifteen minute repair. Also had to replace the AC compressor seal. I had to take the compressor to the Olds repair shop. The mechanic charged me a dollar to pull the old one.
The positraction always made a noise but never tore up. It ran like a bat out of hell.
“Some men are Baptists…others Catholics…My father was an Oldsmobile man.”
I bid $0.27. It’s all the pocket change I have.
A 2004 Oldsmobile Alero? Now there’s a real collectible item. LOL.
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