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  • Last Oldsmobile Rolls Off Michigan Assembly Line

    04/29/2004 2:00:19 PM PDT · by Pharmboy · 56 replies · 644+ views
    Reuters via My Yahoo! ^ | April 29, 2004 | Michael Ellis
    DETROIT (Reuters) - After 107 years of tooling roads from Nova Scotia to San Diego, the last Oldsmobile rolled off a Michigan assembly line on Thursday, marking the end of the oldest auto brand in the United States. Workers signed their names under the hood of the last car -- a cherry red Alero -- which will be displayed at the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum. It will end up in the collection of parent company General Motors Corp. . Ransom E. Olds founded Oldsmobile in Lansing in 1897, and soon after the turn of the century "the Olds" became a...