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I miss Pontiac. It would be interesting to see what they would do with their version of the Chevrolet SS and the Camaro(Firebird). Also Mercury. Maybe they would have made a new Marauder with the 5.0. Always like the look of the 4.6L4v Marauder.
I loved my Oldsmobile and it was a real Olds.
I miss how Buick has no performance models although they are still around.
Sterling, Eagle and Merkur are sorely missed. Just kidding. Saab, Olds and Pontiac are missed, I had one of the last Pontiacs made and it was a great, super reliable car that held its value ridiculously well, some of the last generation Saabs were distinctive, sharp-looking rides as well. The last Olds weren't that great but some of their older stuff was.
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Still people drive and keep going a lot of these old cars in Cuba , go figure were they can find the parts ?
Many of the parts they may need they make. There was a PBS show on the cars of Cuba in which a fender was needed, they brought the car into a barn equipped with an English wheel along with other metal working tools, took a sheet of steel of the rack, and proceeded to make a fender.
I've also read stories about folks there adapting one manufacturer's transmission internals to another's cases and similar fixes. Necessity truly is the mother of inventiveness.
The most interesting thing I watched is the making of a curved front windshield for a 1950's car... the molten glass was poured into a handmade mold in a shed behind someone's home.
Of course it was not safety glass... but, amazing none the less.
-Geo (absolutely EVERYTHING they made was super cool)
-Saturn (a company that genuinely cared about its customers before GM got to them)
-Triumph
-Pontiac
-Oldsmobile
-Plymouth
-Saab
-Eagle
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