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The last Oldsmobile ever built is for sale
Fox News ^ | December 14, 2017 | Gary Gastelu

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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To: CrazyIvan
"I’d rather remember the marquee as a convertible 442 with Linda Vaughn aboard than this milquetoast shopping cart."

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 ;-)

41 posted on 12/14/2017 10:03:43 AM PST by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Song of Angry Men!")
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To: re_tail20

Didn’t Ted Kennedy sink an Olds while DUI?


42 posted on 12/14/2017 10:04:13 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
You need to lease it to the person that will go up against Phocahauntus, after all that was the Kennedy Seat....
43 posted on 12/14/2017 10:05:31 AM PST by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Song of Angry Men!")
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To: re_tail20

I had a ‘56 Holiday. Over 300k miles. Great car!


44 posted on 12/14/2017 10:05:37 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Conservatives seek the truth. Democrats seek the power to say what truth is.)
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To: OldSmaj

“You think you hate it now, wait ‘til you drive it.”


45 posted on 12/14/2017 10:07:26 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: re_tail20

It’s not rusted out yet?


46 posted on 12/14/2017 10:08:58 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: yarddog

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.


47 posted on 12/14/2017 10:10:25 AM PST by commish (Freedom tastes Sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it!)
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To: DCBryan1

You should first post a warning up the thread before posting that photo. I’m triggered and may need a sick day now.


48 posted on 12/14/2017 10:11:09 AM PST by IncPen (Put the 'climate researchers' under oath and have them explain their findings. Then we'll talk.)
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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig

I believe that was Ted Kennedy’s Submarine 1


49 posted on 12/14/2017 10:14:14 AM PST by Insigne123
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To: 1Old Pro

A Delmont


50 posted on 12/14/2017 10:15:17 AM PST by Insigne123
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To: re_tail20
p33

They'd get more for the Kennedy submarine.

51 posted on 12/14/2017 10:17:24 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: PGR88

Oldsmobile were always junk.


52 posted on 12/14/2017 10:26:46 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: re_tail20

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.


53 posted on 12/14/2017 10:30:37 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: Responsibility2nd

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.


54 posted on 12/14/2017 10:32:17 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: factoryrat

Chang Kai-Chek drove Buicks, they love ‘em still


55 posted on 12/14/2017 10:34:55 AM PST by Insigne123
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To: Responsibility2nd
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.

GM is dead to me after the Harley Earl era.

56 posted on 12/14/2017 10:44:06 AM PST by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: Cicero
"No one calls them Government Motors any more? I think they still owe us taxpayers a few billion."

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.

57 posted on 12/14/2017 10:46:29 AM PST by blam
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To: re_tail20

As a GM shareholder, I would rather get my stock back. GM “bankruptcy,” biggest contrived ripoff in history—and all rigged by the government.


58 posted on 12/14/2017 10:50:51 AM PST by kaehurowing
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To: Disambiguator
The Olds Cutlass of the 70's and 80's were great.

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Then they went Full Retard....

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59 posted on 12/14/2017 10:52:46 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Disambiguator

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.


60 posted on 12/14/2017 10:54:44 AM PST by kaehurowing
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