Did you ever drive or own one of these extinct car brands? 🚙

@jimlubinski4731

2 ай бұрын

My father had a 1961 Rambler station wagon and a 1967 Plymouth VIP. I currently have 2 Mercury Cougars (1968 and 1995) and 2 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supremes(1970 and 1973).

@mahawiryasantoso5689

2 ай бұрын

Teslas was still proven better than Delorean.

@johnallen9439

Ай бұрын

What no Studebaker ? Pontiac ? Duesenberg ?

@OldRustySteele

Ай бұрын

I owned a 1971 Plymouth Duster (a good car, but not great) and a 1979 Olds Cutlass Supreme (an excellent car), and a 1996 Mercury Mystique (a crappy car). You didn’t show Pontiac, another extinct brand, but I also had a 1988 Pontiac Bonneville SSE (It was also excellent). The Cutlass and the Bonneville both had GM’s excellent 3.8L V6 engine. Sold the Cutlass at 95,000 miles and still looked new, then bought the Bonneville. The Bonny lasted over 160,000 miles. I gave it to my teenage son at 115,000 miles and he put another 45,000 on it. Would have kept it longer, but he wrecked it and it wasn’t worth repairing, so donated it to Salvation Army.

@billgrandone3552

Ай бұрын

The GM, Ford and Chrysler heirarchy by cost and market target. GM- Cadillac, Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Chevrolet Ford- Continental, Lincoln Mercury, Ford. Chrysler- Imperial, Chrysler, Plymouth, Dodgeas My father was an Olds man. He was a country doctor and needed reliable transportation because the nearest hospitals were fifteen miles away. The first car that I remember was a 1948 Olds Rocket 88 fastback coupe .He then bought a white over navy blue 54 Olds 98, followed by a 1956 white over tourquoise Olds Holiday, then a 1959 old 89 charcoal in color, then a white 1961 Old. 89, a 1962 metallic pink Starfire ( he was going through his mod-life crisis) andmy favorite a1965 Olds 88 with a huge engine..In 1969 he switched to Buicks and his last car was an 1985 Chevy . I and my family (3 daughters) have driven all of the GM cars except Cadillac, many Ford cars and trucksincludin three Mustangs, and one Mercury, a Chrysler New Yorker, Chrysler Imperial, and Dodge Van, as well as foreign cars, an Opel 1800, two Kia Souls, and a Mitsubishi.

You know you’re getting old when you remember most of these cars like it was yesterday 🫤

@yvonneplant9434

29 күн бұрын

😅😅😅 Hmmm, it doesn't feel like yesterday. It feels like what it is: years ago.

@edwardr7520

24 күн бұрын

@@yvonneplant9434 Maybe for you. For me, it was also like yesterday.

DMC manufactured in Northern Ireland not in the US

@zAlaska

2 ай бұрын

Cocaine in the financial details... Not a good video overall. A PowerPoint production is thicker than a tweet. My mother had a 1950 Packard the Police stole for some guy my mother refused to sell to. I came home from school and it was gone and she reported it stolen in a week later told it was at impound. They pulled it out of her parking space four times and we were poor and she couldn't get it out anymore. I found it at the corner of gas station and grab the mail. I had taken the cigarette lighter to the speedometer when I was a kid so I had my mark on it, it was a 1950 with the new automatic transmission and he had some paper that said it was a 1949 and it was his. They stole my car I waited three lifetimes since I was 5 to drive. Seemingly that is how many in America get ahead. Yachts rust away and Jesus forgives but I'll never forget, any recovery from the economic damage, throughout my life, my hands cut off repeatedly, My, since I was 2 or 3, Long base (floor to play on in the back) 1950 Straight 8 Packard Tank, Boomy Bass AM Radio with rich thick harmonics, vacume powered windshield wipers stuggeled up steep hills, OD green. The Fashionable Colur of the Year, post-war. I am 64 noŵ. The Hourglass of time. I have lived 13 lifetimes since I was five, 5 being one lifetime in my calculation. Life is short. And I loved my Packard.

@nicfewer8393

26 күн бұрын

Maybe the parts were, but all assembly was in Dunmurry in the North of Ireland.

DeLorean was made in Northern Ireland .

@jeffking4176

2 ай бұрын

Yep. Sure was. [ I figured I’d check to make sure sure someone else didn’t already comment about it, first. No need for me to state what has already been stated. 🚗🙂

@warrensleep9881

2 ай бұрын

Maybe the AI voice meant to say the United Kingdom 😅

@solracer66

2 ай бұрын

@@warrensleep9881It was probably a mistake as the modern Delorean company is headquartered in Texas and has actually built a handful of all-new cars using the mountain of parts they acquired from the original Delorean company.

@stevenmaginnis1965

29 күн бұрын

And while there was a 1983 DeLorean, the company went out of business in the fall of 1982 - a couple of months into the 1983 model year.

@henrygingold6549

25 күн бұрын

@@stevenmaginnis1965 Leaving the British taxpayers with huge losses.

I think Studebaker, especially the Avanti, would have been a good candidate for this video. That said, I enjoyed the video. I remember the huge fleets of Checker cabs in New York City.

@CaptainO3E

16 күн бұрын

Got a ticket for going 130 in my Mom’s Avanti - - the VT trooper chased me for 24 miles - - without lights until he finally caught me.

I don't think you should have added car companies that were a spin-off of Ford or GM. The companies didn't die. They were just discontinued product lines...😮‍💨

@davidpowell3347

23 күн бұрын

Oldsmobile was an independent company before being swallowed up as a GM division. I believe it still had an independent engineering division that in the 1930s was developing along with GM's Kettering what became the first fully automatic shift transmission.

Every brand my mom had went "extinct." AMC Gremlin, Mercury Zephyr, Datsun 510 or 710 wagon, Pontiac Grand Prix, then Oldsmobile Aurora. Oh she LOVED that Aurora. She has a Buick Lucerne right now. At this rate, Buick better watch out LOL!!!!! An old lady around town here still cruises around in her long-passed-away husband's 1939 Plymouth coupe. She's really shy when asked about it. I'm curious who maintains it because it's in beautiful condition.

@youdontknowme5969

2 ай бұрын

oh Mom had a little Sunbird too, but only for a couple years, after leaving my dad, she traded it in (probably underwater but not my business) and that's where the Datsun came in

@KCKingdomCreateGreatTrekAgain

2 ай бұрын

If I were a car company owner I’d pay her to drive the competition.

@aerorider04

2 ай бұрын

Datsun is not extinct, it simply took the name of it’s parent company, Nissan

@russellfrey4079

2 ай бұрын

Tell her to get a Nissan so we can get those piles of junk off the road

@youdontknowme5969

2 ай бұрын

@russellfrey4079 LMAO! but yep she kinda wants to trade in her Lucerne for "a smaller nimble runabout retirement car that sits up higher" (basically a compact crossover/SUV) and she saw the Juke and Kicks. I told her *_DON'T DO IT!!!!_* "Cuteness" is only skin-deep. And I think those have Renault engines that nobody in The States is gonna touch. I'd rather see her get like an HRV, CX-5, Corolla Cross even. I had to tell her Nissan isn't what they used to be in the 90s, and she still thought I had no idea what I was talking about...

I loved Plymouth especially the 70 Barracuda, 68 Roadrunner, 69 GTX, and 56-59 Fury.

@arty8255

22 күн бұрын

I loved my 80 Volare, a peppy 2 door coupe with the 225 Six and bucket seats.

@CJColvin

8 күн бұрын

Agreed 100% don't forget the 70 Duster as well as the 70 Super Bird.

No, I never owned one of these discontinued brands, but I admired many of them.

My family had a Checker station wagon. It was a beast. Three major accidents, including one rollover, and it gave us more than 350,000 miles. In the 1960s that was a little more than three lifetimes for the average car. It was a great vehicle for a large family.

I don’t know how you can introduce De Soto without showing their iconic cars from the late 1950s, which were so influential for a brief period in American car design. See THE FORWARD LOOK, 1957.

@davidpowell3347

23 күн бұрын

De Soto had its own Hemi V8 engine for a number of years.

@davidpowell3347

23 күн бұрын

Did the pre - V8 era De Soto (like 1950) have a stronger performing flathead 6 than did Dodge or Plymouth of the same years? "Powermaster"

My first car was a 1972 Plymouth Duster. Like all the other firsts from that time, it made life special.

@dtsosie5836

6 күн бұрын

Now that was a car The Duster!

I owned a 1978 Olds 98 , an 89 Olds 98, and a 1987 Olds Firenza. They were great cars!!

My aunt dove a 1952 Hudson Hornet, and I fell in love with that car. Never since has there been an automobile which has caught my fancy as that one!

@yvonneplant9434

29 күн бұрын

Hudsons were awesome. 😊My granddad had one.

@michaeltraub3614

26 күн бұрын

My father had terrible trouble in his business with 2 Hudsons which were driven by 2 reps

I can remember my small town's DeSoto dealership (now a beauty parlor). My first car was a Mercury, and I also owned an Oldsmobile while my father owned a Plymouth. The Rolls Royce of America was the Duesenberg (which you should have included in this video).

@ozzietadziu

2 ай бұрын

Many auto manufacturers went under after the '29 crash. None of them were mentioned, including the real "Rolls Royce" of America, the Pierce Arrow.

@LJB103

2 ай бұрын

@@ozzietadziu I beg to disagree. I still think Duesenberg was the greatest.

My family has had a history of killing off brands. We had two Studebakers, an Oldsmobile, Rambler, Plymouth, Mercury and a Saturn.

@davidnadig9611

26 күн бұрын

Haha. 😂. I know the feeling. I also killed off the Sony beta max and cassette audio tapes. We were also a Studebaker family, olds, Plymouth

@alzo7891

24 күн бұрын

@@davidnadig9611 Oh, boy. You reminded me that I was hardcore into Betamax. Also, LaserDisc.

@buzzwaldron6195

20 күн бұрын

They just kill off the wrong brands... most would trade Buick for Pontiac...

@user-ts8sn5ts2z

16 күн бұрын

Loved my Saturn..first new car I bought on my own

Pontiac is another one

@samanthab1923

2 ай бұрын

That was a BIG one. Firebirds!

@davinp

2 ай бұрын

AFter GM's 2009 bankruptcy, they shut down Pontiac, Saab and Saturn

@tpbrcombo

2 ай бұрын

Well that would be 11, wouldn’t it

@hotroddave7597

2 ай бұрын

Obama closed Pontiac not General Motors Obama wanted to give Buicks to the Chinese. General Motors said planned on closing Buick not Pontiac. But Obama held the purse strings

@NatureWheelsandHauls

2 ай бұрын

And Sizuki, Hummer, and Isuzu in the US anyway, not sure if they lived on in other markets around the world?

The Fabulous Hudson Hornet was the inspiration behind Paul Numan"s character in Disney's Cars

Had a Pontiac and an Oldsmobile 98 we lovingly called Sherman because it was a tank!!!

@youdontknowme5969

2 ай бұрын

I loved my 98 88, sadly a deer totalled it 😭

@02chevyguy

2 ай бұрын

My brother had the downsized '77 version that he bought brand new. My sister and her husband had a 2-door '76 and '82. Both of these were brand new as well.

I wish we still had CHECKER CAB

@KCKingdomCreateGreatTrekAgain

2 ай бұрын

Those and the deSoto cabs from 48 were awesome.

@stephentontz3853

Ай бұрын

Checkers never changed from year to year. I'll parts were easy to get for that reason.

@John-wg6xw

26 күн бұрын

My buddy's parents had the same Checker for many years. You couldn't kill it!

First car was a 1967 Mercury Cougar

@samanthab1923

2 ай бұрын

My brothers last SUV was a Mountaineer

@htpm325

Ай бұрын

Amazing, my first car was a 67 cougar XR7, it was a bit of a wreck but I loved it. Sold it and bought a 1970 cougar eliminator which I also loved. It was fast and flashy, too flashy perhaps as it was vandalised several times over the years I owned it. Days of my youth...... Peace!

You didn't mention Studebaker. I drove a 1976 Oldsmobile, a 1948 DeSoto, a 1970 Plymouth Duster, and I believe a couple of others. All the cars you listed, except for the DeLorean, were rather common in the early sixties. The 1964 Mercury was one of my favorites. In had a top that was 'straight' in the rear, unlike the Thunderbird, that had a top that was sloped in the rear. One thing about cars of that era. One could tell the make and year of the vehicle from several hundred miles away, unlike many of the vehicles of today when one can't tell which car is which until they are close enough to see the logo.

I'm still driving my '97 Saturn SW2, still looks new except where in parking lots other drivers have deposited foreign paint upon its corners, great mileage, it never stranded me and it's never been in the shop. It's needed new tires once, a new battery once and once a year it gets new oil. It was my first new car purchase and I remember at the time wondering if it would be my last and that sure looks like it might come true. Yes, I'm pretty happy with it.

We got my uncle’s 1950 Studebaker Champion 4-door and had it completely restored. We belong to a chapter of the International Studebaker Drivers Club, and there are regular meets.

My dad had a 59 Sudabaker! Drove it till he died! It's still in the family!

I like the clear pronunciation and pleasant speaking pace in the videos on the channel. These videos are very suitable for practicing understanding spoken English.

I remember yellow taxi in San Diego in 81. 5 friends and myself took a ride. The first car I got laid was a Ford pinto.

I wish Saturn’s no haggle pricing and emphasis on customer satisfaction had caught on. I bought three consecutive Saturns because I detested the traditional dealers haggling over price! Amazing that this antiquated system of selling cars still survives in the age of the internet.

great memories, my Dad had a 59 Olds, Big Red and White 4 door, a beautiful car, the speedometer used fluid to tell you how fast you were going, Great Video, Thank You.

@davidpowell3347

23 күн бұрын

'56 Oldsmobile 88 was a beautiful car with good power although I think a De Soto of the same year could outrun it.

Owned an Oldsmobile, Plymouth, & AMC.

I miss Oldsmobile!

@eudaenomic

Ай бұрын

We had a station wagon with the Greyhound split roof.

My Mom had a Studebaker Silver Hawk and my Dad had a Packard Carribean.

My dad owned a ‘53 Packard, ‘67 Oldsmobile 98 coupe, 1970s and 1980s Mercury Grand Marquis, 1987 Mercury Cougar XR-7. I owned a 1979 Ford Thunderbird (model now discontinued) and a 1982 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, 1991 Mercury Grand Marquis.

Over the years, I've owned a '67 Pontiac Catalina, '75 Plymouth Valient, '78 Oldsmobile Delta 88, and a '73 Oldsmobile 98 Regency Deluxe...all good cars and I miss each one of them.

My favorite cars were 1956 Plymouths. I had two of them! Loved that push-button transmission! My husband had Oldsmobiles and a Packard, which I think was his favorite. I've also had an AMC Pacer...we called it the "Pisser" because it was yellow and kinda piddled along. My granddad had a Hudson at one time, and his last car was a Nash...not a Rambler, but a Nash. He sold it to my dad, and when I was middle-school age I'd sit in it in the driveway and listen to the radio when there was nothing on TV that I wanted to watch.

Absolutely a delightful report!

I had 3 of them! 1949 Desoto, 1950 Studebaker and 1955 Nash Metropolitan. Went from large to small and loved them all!

Wow. Loved the oldies.

I guess I've been plagued by purchasing cars whose makers couldn't compete. My dad owned a 1946 DeSoto, the first car I learned to drive, I then bought a Nash Rambler, an American Motors Gremlin, and when kids came along, a Plymouth Station Wagon ( the one that rusted and lost body parts as you drove, including the radio antenna and the front fender reflectors, and eventually the passenger floor boards (replaced with plywood)), a 1992 Olds 98 (which made many trips from Ohio to Florida Universities where sometime during those journeys required two front end replacements, three complete brake job replacements, one complete paint job. I sold it with the sky roof rusted shut) and finally in 1993 I bought a Demo Saturn SC (after 23,000 miles an 2 yrs the engine siezed while being serviced at a GM dealer). I now have a top-of-the-line 2008 Mazda 6, with nearly 100,000 miles and no except normal maintenance (and as expected Mazda doesn't make this model anymore)

Drove a 70 Plymouth Roadrunner in highschool in 1980 and 1981. Baddest car in the school parking lot!

I had a Oldsmobile 442 1970, and i loved it.

I worked in a Buick dealership in the 90s and it was hilarious to me that in 92 …. 93….. 94 nobody would come in and buy a Buick roadmaster but then once they were discontinued suddenly we would get six or seven a day walking into the dealership, asking for the Buick roadmaster, pretending like they didn’t know it had been discontinued and then they’d get angry at us because it had been discontinued by Buick and I always asked them. “ Why didn’t you come in last year or the year before when we had plenty of them and we were advertising.? “

Thank you.

Had a 54 Hudson Super Wasp. 262 flathead. Beautiful machine

My dad had a 54 Packard. There were four of us boy and it was so big the four of us could be messing around while our parents in the front seat could ride in comfort without being bothered by the noise.

I've owned a rambler American, Plymouth fury, AMC eagle, a 1950 Plymouth businessman coup and a mercury meteor

Our first car back in 1974 was a two tone blue and white 4 door Mercury Comet. A very reliable car!

I was in the auto repair industry for over fifty years and worked on all of these brands at some time. Lots of memories here.

I have an 04 Saturn Vue 5 speed, 4 cylinder with 230,000 miles and a plastic body and I would never sell it.

How about the Geo Storm? Got mine in 1993. I like to say it was one of the last off the assembly line. Over 200k and still running great.

Mercury Grand Marquis Brougham, Pontiac Executive, Plymouth Fury, Olds 98 Regency. The Mercury and Olds were both tough as nails.

Charles Addams once drew a cartoon of an automotive graveyard. There were names of former auto manufacturers and their dates of existence on each tombstone.

Oldsmobile Cutlass V8 350 engine was one of my all time favs! Simply solid and appealing.

I am surprised you did not mention Studebaker, other than as the merger partner of Packard. They started out as a wagon and stagecoach builder, but exited the automobile manufacturing business not long after the merger. They were unable to complete with the GM-Ford price wars of the 1960's. One of their product lines that survives today is STP.

Fun fact: the man who designed the Chemist Cab also designed the Gibson Firebird guitar.

I owned a 1950 DeSoto. What a great car with innovative features for its time. Mine was a 4 dr flat head 6 with semiautomatic fluid drive so spacious and comfortable. Loved it. I’ll always regret selling it.

I had a beautiful 1971 AMC pistachio-colored Javelin! It was a great sports car!

Rode in these at Fort Leonardwood in Missouri. They got us around

Owned used '60 Rambler Classic. Poorly constructed, I went 'up' and got a '64 Olds Cutlass coupe (copper/white) two tone. Countless memories.

I was born in 1992. I didn't hear about DeSoto, Packard or Hudson until older as a child. Doc Hudson in the first Cars movie from Pixar is a Hudson Hornet. America is a continent, not a country. Mercury and Saturn are also two planets in the solar system, by the way. I love history so I enjoy videos like this.

In the late 80s i got a Gremlin..AMC Gremlin...a very tough and almost undestructible car...a die hard one..a real warrior...👍👍🇸🇻

Fun fact: the DeSoto Air Flow (shown at 3:20 ) inspired the design of Chrysler's PT Cruiser (2000 - 2010).

While it wasn't mentioned in your presentation, I learned to drive in the "Nash Rambler," in the mid'60s. It was a smallish vehicle, which was fine for me. It had a push-button transmission. I don't know if any other vehicle had that feature.

We grew up going to school in a 53 Hudson Jet and a 59 pink Rambler station wagon. My dad swore by and at the Hudson Co.

Love the checker cabs. We get home from a deployment and 6 of us would comfortably ride to the airport. We each give the cabbie 5 dollars apiece. The meter for the airport was 24 dollars.

Whilst you were on the Hudson brand, you could have mentioned the Essex. I had a 1928 Super Six tourer as my first car. A sweet little car.

They should have mentioned the AMC Pacer from Wayne's World, the Hudson Hornet from Cars, the Desoto from Sam & Max and the Plymouth Fury from Christine...

48 Plymouth, 52 Studebaker coupe, 55 Nash Farina, 57 Studebaker Silver Hawk. The Plymouth I called the Black Bump. The engine sounded like a sewing machine.The Nash looked like a upside down bathtub. It had a thermostatic controled heating system and a Packard Interceptor engine. I loved the styling of the Studebakers. A local has a mint looking 51 coupe he put a Corvette engine in.

I would've imagine what AMC could've been had both Studebaker and Packard merged together with Hudson and Nash along with Kaiser and Jeep to create AMC in 1954.

Hernando De Soto discovered the Mississippi River. The GM brand LaSalle was named for the Frenchman who sailed down the Mississippi from the Illinois River.

You didn't mention Pontiac. My first car was a Pontiac Grand Prix. My next car was a Oldmobile Alero. Am I cursed? Will Kia die next?

@SeverancePay500

29 күн бұрын

Needs to

@teejaynumber13

29 күн бұрын

@@SeverancePay500 Really? What's wrong with Kia?

In the early 1950's before they were married, my father had a Nash and my mother had an Olds.

When I was a kid, neighbors had a Checker Marathon wagon. It was cavernous.

My Mother Drove a 1964 98 Oldsmobile from 1964 to 1974... Then I first drove a 1970 Old's Cutlas as my First Car with my License when I was 16 in 1979.

I have a 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass S that I've owned twice. Bought it in high school in 1984, sold it to a friend in 1986 (and regretted it immediately), bought it BACK from him in 2014, 30-years and the same month as the first time. Still runs and drives, fast as heck and have collected a lot of new and old parts for restoration which I'm hoping to start in a couple of years. Since I'll never part with it again the family joke is that I'll be buried in it.

Owned Oldsmobile,Pontiac, and Saturn. I had 4 Oldsmobile Cutlasses 1993 Saturn SW3 wagon and the Pontiac Bonneville spanning from 1969 to 2000. Grew up an Oldsmobile fan. Saturn was a unique car company. NO PRICE HAGGLING. Service was very good. I really wanted Saturn to succeed, but GM starting to cut corners. Saturn was their big baby to fight the small car imports. That was one of the vehicles I had fun driving. I had 4 Oldsmobile cutlasses. 1969, 1974, 1976 and 1985. 1969 was the best Cutlass I’ve owned . 1974 Cutlass Supreme was the worst. 76 was the most sportiest (442 appearance and handling packaged). My 85 Cutlass Salon was the best handling. The 2000 Pontiac Bonneville SLE was the sportiest sedan with good handling and comfort. After 2000, I’ve owned 4 Subaru’s and a Hyundai ELECTRIC VEHICLE. I was loyal to GM from 1969 - 2000. GM was not loyal to me. That’s why I decided to own imports.😩

Yes, I had olds and Saturns until two years ago

My father had a 70s Oldsmobile cutlass salon 4 door sedan 5.8 V8 here in the Netherlands. People didn’t knew what they saw. It was like a big monster in this small country in the middle of oir average compact vehicles here like the VW beetle’s and the citroen cv2’s… and the opel Kadett’s and the ford escort’s with their small 4 cylinder engines in that time.

I have owned or driven Oldsmobiles snce 1961. Name an Olds model.....I have either owned it or driven it. GM didn't know a good thing when it saw it!!!!

you forgot, Pontiac, Kaiser, Nash, LaSalle, Metropolitan, studebaker Lark, Crosley, Edsel

I miss my 3.3 V6 1993 Olds Cutlass Cruiser, a honey-colored woodie station wagon.

My Dad Owned a 1981 AMC EAGLE it was The Rarest Cars we Ever Had😊

You could say that these ‘brands’ died when they merged or were taken over by the larger car companies - Buick, Pontiac, Oldsmobile etc., by GM, De Soto by Chrysler and others. Few here actually ‘died’ as independent companies.

Please note that Delorean cars were built in Belfast, Northern Ireland, not USA as stated. However I enjoyed the video and remember these brands fondly.

Borgward, simca, Saab, autobianchi, Daihatsu, rover, triumph, daewoo, trabant, tatra, lada, daf, talbot, austin, matra, panhard, minerva, …

I had a1989 OIdsmobile Cutlass Ciera, and 1994 Saturn SC2.

I feel old, I've had a car from a manufacturer on this list. My Mercury Sable had a cool feature I've not had on any car since: it had dual visors. So you could pop one visor onto the side window, and then pull a second one down for the windshield. Great for when you're making turns and the sun keeps "moving" back and forth between the two windows. Another manufacturer that should be on the list is Pontiac. My first car was a Grand Prix.

The Delorean was NOT manufactured in America, it was built in Northern Ireland.

You missed the AMC Javelin. It was a really sporty car with some good guts. One of the things that helped the DeSoto to die out was that it was the Chrysler "test car." New ideas were tried out on the DeSoto and if it worked out it would be used on the Chrysler. The last thing that was tried on the DeSoto was to change the wiring to all copper wiring. Didn't work out and the electrical problems killed it for sure. My dad owned a 51 or 2 DeSoto. I remember the hood ornament that lit up when the headlights were on. Mercury was a good car with a good engine. Many times when someone was rebuilding their Ford engine they'd get high compression Mercury heads. They seemed to be better for power. My brother had a 52 Mercury Montclair. It was a really nice car and I liked it a lot. What happened is he was in the Navy and sending money home to my mother to take to the bank for him to pay for the car and she was using for other things. Only a single mention of the Studebaker? Studebaker manufactured horse-drawn wagons even up to when it was manufacturing cars. Studebaker's designs in the 50s were way ahead of their times. They were also one of the first to introduce 4-speed manual transmission for their cars. Almost bought a 55 Studebaker Hawk with a the 4-speed manual on the floor. It was quite the runner with the huge engine it had. Don't be so glib about the Plymouth. I had a 59 Sport Fury. It was a really great car. Good engine with good power. One thing I really liked about it is the swing-out front bucket seats. They were really convenient to get in and out. I wonder why they were discontinued? Sadly, it had a difficult time competing with Ford and Chevy. I recall racing a Ford 312 cid with my 318 cid and taking it. I had a Saturn as well. It had a really good engine that got quite good gas mileage on the road. But in town, it was a bit off. It was a really sporty 5-speed that could cruise nicely at 70 on the freeways at 38 or so MPG. Where's Pontiac? The Bonneville was quite the top of the line car. And just can't forget about the GTO. It's still a sought after car. My dad had a couple of Pontiacs. It had a hood ornament that lit up like the DeSoto as well.

I still own a '96 Plymouth Breeze. And, I also own another orphaned brand that you didn't mention. Also in my driveway is a '58 Edsel Corsair. And, here's a fun fact about Packard. Although their sales were starting to decline in the early '50s, they were still in strong financial shape until they bought Studebaker. Studebaker was in a horrible financial shape, and they hid that fact from the Packard personnel until after the buyout. (I know that most people call it a merger, but it was actually a buyout by Packard.) Packard wanted Studebaker for two reasons. 1) They wanted to diversify their lineup. 2) They wanted access to Studebaker's dealer network, which was larger than Packard's. Unfortunately, Studebaker's sad financial shape did nothing bu completely doom Packard.

I had 3 Saturns. Excellent cars….Probably their needing few repairs led to their downfall. One did not have to keep replacing them!

Checker is my favorite, whos with me 👇

Uk same .i had morris , wolseley, riley.

We also had a Rambler circa 1960 and we represented Studebaker in Colombia circa 1950

My great uncle had a 1950 Hudson Commodore. I still regret not buying it from him. I owned a Plymouth Duster back in the day, but it wasn't the fast option... It had Chrysler's slant six, but was still a fun car.

We have a Saturn Vue model year 2007. I drive it almost every day. The vehicle has 88,000 miles.

What about the Tucker car ? I know it was only 50 made but still a car company

My recollection of many of these cars was that they burned oil. My first automobile in about 1960 was a Plymouth. It burned oil.

I was born in December of 1953 and came up with 23 (American) car brands (in 30 seconds) that I've filled the gas tanks on, that no longer exist. Studebaker, Pontiac, Edsel, Nash, Rambler, GEO, LaSalle, Jeepster, Willys, Henry K, the big Kaiser, Tucker, Frasier, International Harvester, Ransom Elias Olds (REO), and I've FELT everyone of these (and a dozen more) sheetmetal if not dipsticks! There are 250% MORE American car brands that no longer exist than the one's that exist...Duesenberg, Marmon, Fisher (pre-Chevrolet), Fleetwood (yup BEFORE Cadillac), Duryea, Cord, Auburn, Franklin, Essex, Detroit Electric (DELCO), the list goes on...

I loved my Plymouth branded Neon. Unfortunately , it had weak head gaskets, and I had to let it go only after a decade. Blowing the head gasket once might be understandable, but a second time less than two years later is ridiculous.