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1 posted on 11/01/2010 6:44:49 AM PDT by kingattax
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2 posted on 11/01/2010 6:47:17 AM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
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The Goat


3 posted on 11/01/2010 6:47:48 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom REMEMBER FREE REPUBLIC IN YOUR WILL. I DID)
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Many a Pontiac have seen the tail lights of my Dodge.....

Not much muscle in that brand of “muscle”car..


5 posted on 11/01/2010 6:51:01 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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Amazing what happens to a company when it doesn't make products that people want to buy... they get a taxpayer bailout.

I wish I could sell "my" GM and Chrysler stock.

6 posted on 11/01/2010 6:53:41 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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If I were in charge of GM, I’d keep Chevy, Cadillac, dump GMC, Buick............ the unions and Obama.


8 posted on 11/01/2010 6:54:50 AM PDT by umgud (Wear your Border Patrol hat to the polls)
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Unions killed it.


9 posted on 11/01/2010 6:54:52 AM PDT by blackpacific
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I remember when Pontiac was quite the cat’s meow, back in the early sixties.
It was the favorite of rich kids that had their own car.


10 posted on 11/01/2010 6:55:50 AM PDT by AlexW
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I can't understand why Pontiac folded.... Photobucket
11 posted on 11/01/2010 6:56:07 AM PDT by Carbonsteel
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Pontiac, whose muscle cars drag-raced down boulevards Honda and Toyota drivers wave as they pass.


12 posted on 11/01/2010 6:56:29 AM PDT by Vaduz
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“It was undone by a combination of poor corporate strategy and changing driver tastes”


It was undone by the U.S. Government after they took a majority share of GM. The UAW bleeding the company dry had nothing to do with it, of course.


13 posted on 11/01/2010 6:56:52 AM PDT by KingOfVagabonds
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14 posted on 11/01/2010 6:57:19 AM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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When I was growing up an older guy down the street bought a ‘64 GTO. A completely un-PC classic. Solid lifter cam, 389 with three two barrels, Hurst shifter - all factory. He treated it like a baby. Five years later he got married and offered to sell it to me for $900. By then there were monsters like 375hp/396 Cameros around I wasn't interested.

Famous mistake #103.

16 posted on 11/01/2010 7:06:34 AM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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GTO was an awesome ride back in my day. We can spin it like this:

Commie Rat thug unions and politicians killed a great brand, a great traditions, and a great American company.


17 posted on 11/01/2010 7:13:01 AM PDT by RatRipper (I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
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Government Motors is just following Fords lead because they iced the Mercury.


20 posted on 11/01/2010 7:23:58 AM PDT by Rappini ("Pro deo et Patria.)
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Patriots do not buy GM products...


21 posted on 11/01/2010 7:29:14 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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Once upon a time ... my brother owned the "GOAT" and the SS was mine.
Those really were fun times.


22 posted on 11/01/2010 7:30:19 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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It was undone by a combination of poor corporate strategy and changing driver tastes.

And shoddy manufacturing practices.
But if your line workers are boozing and doping on their lunch hours...
no shock there.


32 posted on 11/01/2010 8:35:13 AM PDT by VOA
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I had an ‘84 Firebird when I was in highschool. I don’t claim to know a thing about cars. All I can tell you is that I absolutely LOVED driving that car. 20 years and 5 kids later, I’m now in a great big conversion van. Oh, how I miss that Firebird!!! :o)


43 posted on 11/01/2010 10:13:26 AM PDT by samiam1972 ("It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."-Mother Teresa)
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My dad bought a new 1969 Pontiac Le Mans. It was in the shop more than any other car that he ever had.


46 posted on 11/01/2010 10:41:58 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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Should have been killed off decades ago.. taking a generic everyday car, and slapping a nose grill and a bunch of plastic flares does not a brand make.

Pontiact has been other than a gasp of air here and there, irrellevant since the 70s.


54 posted on 11/01/2010 12:23:03 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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