On April 29, 2004, the last Oldsmobile came off the assembly
line at the Lansing Car Assembly plant in Michigan, signaling
the end of the 106-year-old automotive brand, America’s oldest.

Ransom Eli Olds (June 3, 1864 – August 26, 1950)

On April 27, 2009, the struggling American auto giant General
Motors (GM) said it planed to discontinue production of its
more than 80-year-old Pontiac brand.

Pontiac’s origins date back to the Oakland Motor Car, which
was founded in 1907 in Pontiac, Michigan, by Edward Murphy,
a horse-drawn carriage manufacturer.

In 1909, Oakland became part of General Motors, a conglomerate
formed the previous year by another former buggy company
executive, William Durant. The first Pontiac model made its
debut as part of the Oakland line in the 1920s.         
        
        
       

The 2010 Pontiac G6: The final nail in the car coffin.

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American
industrialist and business magnate. As founder of the Ford
Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making cars 
affordable for middle-class Americans through the Fordism 
system.

The ‘57 Chevy was introduced by Chevrolet in September
1956 for the 1957 model year. It was available in three series models: the upscale Bel Air, the mid-range Two-Ten, and
the One-Fifty.

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The Chevrolet Impala first debuted in 1958 and was soon
Chevrolet’s most popular flagship passenger car and one
of the better-selling American-made automobiles in the U.S.