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Posted on 05/02/2009 2:08:35 PM PDT by kellynla
LOS ANGELES – It could crash through burning buildings, make a fool of any number of small-town Southern sheriffs, help save the world from giant robots, even take criminals off to jail while engaging in witty repartee with its driver.
In the end, about the only thing a Pontiac automobile couldn't do anymore was persuade enough people to keep buying it.
So General Motors announced this past week that it is killing off the Pontiac brand, maker of muscular, noisy, gas-guzzling V-8-powered vehicles immortalized in song and movies for the way they seemed to shout to every other car on the block: "Out of the way, pipsqueak!"
When Burt Reynolds needed to outrun Jackie Gleason's bumbling Sheriff Buford T. Justice across the South in the 1977 movie "Smokey and the Bandit," he chose a black Pontiac Trans Am. When he needed a car to crash through burning buildings in "Hooper," it was a red Trans Am.
On TV, the star of the hit 1980s series "Knight Rider" wasn't really David Hasselhoff, it was his talking Pontiac. When Jim Garner's private eye Jim Rockford needed to hit the road to solve a crime, he didn't get behind the wheel of a Ford Mustang or a Chevrolet Camaro. He chose a Pontiac Firebird.
And when a bored high school senior from Nashville, Tenn., decided to tune out his physics teacher's lecture one day and check out a copy of Car and Driver magazine, it was a picture of a hot new Pontiac he saw on the cover. By the end of class, John Wilkin had written the 1964 pop classic "GTO."
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We survived the end of Edsel and Studebaker, we’ll survive this.
“We survived the end of Edsel and Studebaker, we’ll survive this?”
Comaparing Pontiac to Edsel & Studebaker would be laughable if it weren’t so D...U...M...B!
Downsizing and smaller companies seems to be where it's at. It might help boost the economy, get people jobs and even make GM some money.
Maybe it's already been looked and dismissed, for all I know. I sure don't know the chances of it making a profit, but I know that there has got to be some people out there that can design a better looking car than what GM has been making lately.
Pontiac (like oldsmobile and plymouth) has been a joke for a long time now. Pontiacs are just chevys with sillier lights and grills.
it takes $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
and with the WORLD economy in the middle of a recession and possibly a depression; now is not the time to be picking up and/or starting a car company...
everyone is or should be going on one HUGE DIET...unfortunately President Hussein & his minions haven't figured that out.
“Pontiac (like oldsmobile and plymouth) has been a joke for a long time now. Pontiacs are just chevys with sillier lights and grills.”
Well that’s your opinion and opinions are like noses...
everybody’s got one. LMA0
Hideous. The 56 and the 58 were better. My favorite is the 55 chevy nomad
very nice. I prefer two-tone though.
Would that be the car or the blond? LOL
Car...not a fan of suntans or sunbleached hair.
Teal or aubergine with a white top.
“I’ve often talked about buying the manufacturing rights and drawings (from GM) of the 1957 Chevrolet and begin manufacturing a 21st century version of that car.”
When I was young lad , around 1975 , I sent a letter to GM suggesting they bring back the 1957 Chevy .
I think the 57 was the favorite of most people.
IMO, the 58 looks like a fat-mouthed shark, lol.
Smoke and Mirrors,Pontiac will be back
“Car...not a fan of suntans or sunbleached hair.”
I was making a joke...
The problem would be to get it licensed. That’s why it (1957 Chevy) would have to be rebuilt incorporating all the required present day features.
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