They'd get more for the Kennedy submarine.
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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That statement is useless without pictures :-)
I was of the age where that 1st mustache was growing and I loved reading muscle car mags and for some reason, her pictures always got my attention ;-)
Didn’t Ted Kennedy sink an Olds while DUI?
I had a ‘56 Holiday. Over 300k miles. Great car!
“You think you hate it now, wait ‘til you drive it.”
It’s not rusted out yet?
I had a 1962 Super 88 that had a Rocket 394. That thing would absolutely fly, but if you opened all 4 barrels you could see the gas gauge move to the left about as fast as the speedometer moved to the right. I got a whopping 8 MPG - on a good day.
You should first post a warning up the thread before posting that photo. I’m triggered and may need a sick day now.
I believe that was Ted Kennedy’s Submarine 1
A Delmont
They'd get more for the Kennedy submarine.
Oldsmobile were always junk.
A fellow radioman on my tin can in 1970 had a 1966 442. A red two door coupe with 400 c.u. motor, four barrel carb, and dual exhaust (hence “442”). I put some good miles on it on the freeways and mountain twisties around San Diego and still remember it as one of the nicest driving muscle cars of the era I’d ever experienced. In the two years he was aboard I never heard a word from him about any problems with it.
GM definitely has a pre BK and post BK delineation in terms of their quality....
I got burned by a GM long long ago that my first wife just had to have an against my better judgement we bought... complete P.O.S. Will never buy another one.... however I also recognize they have markedly improved their quality since BK, however it would be impossible for them to NOT have improved quality because it was virtually non existent pre BK.
However, as I said they burned their bridge with me long ago, no way I’m giving them another shot EVER...
Oh and you can keep tell me its not by father’s Buick... but I’m solidly into middle age now, and until I no longer am stuck behind an old man in a buick doing 20 miles under the speed limit with his blinker going for 10 miles plus, Buick is still a car for the post retiree set in my world.
Chang Kai-Chek drove Buicks, they love ‘em still
GM is dead to me after the Harley Earl era.
Dated March 23, 2013.
Why "Government Motors" Still Owes You
GM has technically satisfied the terms of its bailout, but it still owes taxpayers a lot of money.
As a GM shareholder, I would rather get my stock back. GM “bankruptcy,” biggest contrived ripoff in history—and all rigged by the government.
Then they went Full Retard....
No member of my family has owned an American car since the mid-seventies. My mother brought a new Pontiac in 1974, and the car broke down the first time she drove it, before it got from the dealer to their home about 5 miles away. It never drove again. Neither the dealer or Pontiac would take responsibility, my parents had to sue them to get their money back. It was determined as part of that process that the factory had installed parts of the transmission backwards, thus causing it to seize up.
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