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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: Responsibility2nd
I stand corrected.

HERE is when the Olds Cutlass went Full Retard.

Image result for 1999 olds cutlasses

61 posted on 12/14/2017 10:54:48 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

You left out Saab, GM destroyed them also.

They made good cars until GM turned them into crap.


62 posted on 12/14/2017 10:55:44 AM PST by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: Insigne123

I’m a bunch ignorant here, impact machine for what ? and what broke it ?

I’ve had a bazillion cars since I got my driver’s license.
I forgot a couple more olds’ that I\we had.
I forgot that my wife brought a 72 cutlass 350 rocket into the marriage.
I could leave skid marks from a standing stop in that thing.
Traded it in for a 71 Super Beetle.
I also had an 83 Toronado that was a basket case.
Every time it rained, I had a swimming pool in the trunk.
Spent about 3 grand in 3 months(on a $600 car) before I gave up the ghost and traded that to a Midas mechanic for front\rear brakes on my wife’s Chevette.


63 posted on 12/14/2017 10:59:35 AM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: HamiltonJay

My father was an Oldsmobile man.”


Mine was a GM man, but he favored Oldsmobiles later in life. My favorite was the 1954 Olds 98. I deliberately stopped buying anything from GM in 1969.


64 posted on 12/14/2017 11:01:12 AM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: rickomatic

It’s like an old flame that never quite goes away and always has a place in you heart.


65 posted on 12/14/2017 11:03:56 AM PST by Bonemaker (White Southerners have been under attack since 1860.)
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To: re_tail20

I did not know Oldsmobile was out of business....
I had owned a 1977 Olds Delta 88 and the rear end leaned to the left, the windshield leaked, the windshield fogged up.

I learned to replace the push rods as they got clogged like arteries. Finally blew a cylinder. While being towed back on a flatbed the gas line started leaking. I could have been a sigalert! Fire on the 210 freeway.

Push rods
https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/302146060117_/COMP-CAMS-7582-16-Olds-400-455-Magnum-Pushrods-5-16in.jpg


66 posted on 12/14/2017 11:04:58 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: re_tail20

I still drive a 1988 Cutlass Supreme Classcic V-8, with 77,000 original miles.


67 posted on 12/14/2017 11:10:30 AM PST by jobim
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To: Insigne123

Thank you for the detailed discussion. You obviously know whereof you speak. My dad got a brand new gold 4 door hardtop (pillar less) top of the line Super 88 in spring of 1957. I think it had 3 two barrels. Imagine my joy at driving that around my senior year in high school? That I, and a number of others, are still alive is a testimony to my maturity, restraint and driving skills at such a young age. Whew!

Never a finer automobile ever in my opinion. Spoiled me for life.


68 posted on 12/14/2017 11:14:12 AM PST by Bonemaker (White Southerners have been under attack since 1860.)
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To: woodmiser

Ted Kennedy drove a Oldsmobile Delta 88 (over a bridge).


69 posted on 12/14/2017 11:14:48 AM PST by forgotten man
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To: re_tail20; All
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70 posted on 12/14/2017 11:15:35 AM PST by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

THat’s just a Chevy Malibu with Olds badges on it.


71 posted on 12/14/2017 11:23:40 AM PST by rllngrk33 (Tagline undergoing rennovations, please check back at a later date.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

THat’s just a Chevy Malibu with Olds badges on it.


72 posted on 12/14/2017 11:23:40 AM PST by rllngrk33 (Tagline undergoing rennovations, please check back at a later date.)
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To: sparklite2

I think the last good GM’s were 1958’s.


73 posted on 12/14/2017 11:26:02 AM PST by Bonemaker (White Southerners have been under attack since 1860.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
The Olds Cutlass of the 70's and 80's were great.

You mean 60's and 70's, don't you?

74 posted on 12/14/2017 11:26:56 AM PST by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I used to live down the street from a guy I went to HS with who had a really nice ‘69 Cutlass “with a 350.”

I saw him smoke both wide rear tires (posi) while already going 35 mph, so I confronted him about the 350 afterwards, and he fessed up that he was running a 455 that was built up.


75 posted on 12/14/2017 11:29:54 AM PST by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: Bonemaker

I loved my ‘64 Malibu SS. The only problem I ever had with it was a bolt that came out of the flywheel. It was usually in the bottom of the flywheel housing, but occasionally would bounce up and get hit by the flywheel teeth. Then it sounded like a machine gun. After about a year, the bolt finally punched a hole in the housing and egressed. I missed that bolt.


76 posted on 12/14/2017 11:34:43 AM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: Obadiah

That is not an Oldsmobile, this is an Oldsmobile.



77 posted on 12/14/2017 12:03:27 PM PST by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: Red Badger
Let me know when the last Chevrolet is for sale......................

You'll have to go for Beijing for that one.
78 posted on 12/14/2017 1:37:02 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

That would be a Chevroray...............


79 posted on 12/14/2017 1:39:21 PM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Responsibility2nd

That’s why they are offering employee pricing, 20% off msrp and 6 years 0% finance.

While Ford just giggles and gets msrp with out the bs


80 posted on 12/14/2017 4:16:22 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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