Car Brands No Longer Around!

its still hard to believe pontiac is gone.

I miss Pontiac.

Enjoyed going down memory lane with this one . One company that was missing from the group was Hudson. They were renowned racers back in the day. They merged with Nash (another one missing ) and were not received well and were referred to as a "Hash" .

My first car was a 1987 Pontiac Grand Am, which I got soon after I finished college. It was a base-model four-door that did rental car duty for two years before it was passed on to the local Pontiac dealer I bought it from. It was a lot of fun to drive and handled impeccably well. I really loved it, enough to keep it until 2006, when it finally wore out its usefulness. I felt like a dog owner who had to put the animal to sleep. I'm still a Pontiac owner, though. I bought a 1967 Bonneville station wagon in 2000 and still have it to this day.

Being 55 I absolutely love this channel. It's wonderful going back in time

My dad was a Pontiac man. I grew up in a variety of Pontiacs. I learned how to drive in a l966 Tempest, and it's still the best car I ever drove. The black l966 GTO in the picture is made from the Tempest.

My father owned a 1965 Pontiac Bonneville. He loved that car. He still talks about that car to this day! I can still remember the giant steering wheel in it.

My all-time favorite car was my very first car purchase with my own money when I turn sixteen years old. It was a 1970 Oldsmobile toronado 455 cubic-inch with four-barrel carburetor and front wheel drive. It looked like a pregnant trans am with the front being extremely sharp and pointed and their rear end was fastback with a very short trunk. It had all the amenities including a factory installed in-dash 8-track tape player in this thing flew like a rocket!!!

I miss my Saturns. I purchased my first one in 91. SC coupe. Great little car, for what it was it was fast and handled well since then my wife and I went through eight of them. I still own and drive my 2004 ION quad coupe. 140k miles, always starts and still on the original clutch.

A couple of short-lived Asian brands were Daihatsu who had two vehicles sold in the U.S., the small hatchback Charade and a small SUV the Rocky. The other was South Korean brand Daewoo who's models were morphed into Suzuki which were called the Lanos, the Nubira and the Leganza. Daewoo also produced vehicles for GM such as the late-80's Pontiac LeMans and the Chevrolet Aveo.

So sad for Pontiac being gone. I recall my moms' beige Pontiac Bonneville... fun name and the car was powerful. Could go from Miami to Orlando on ONE full tank of gas. I am a believer that the company stopped due to how reliable the car was and people didn't need to buy new one. That Pontiac lasted 10 plus years. Very reliable vehicle.

As someone who loves cars and history this was right up my alley! I'm sad a lot of these cars are defunct now and especially sad that they don't make beauties like they used to. I must say though, I'm surprised you didn't mention Hudson, as that was another popular (and sadly defunct) automaker most famous for the Hornet, which was often used for dirt track racing.

as someone that will 50 in may, i still remember the datsun and also the fiero from pontiac. what a great video (as usual), thank you 👍✌

Enjoyed the video! A couple of things to add. AMC was formed with the merger of Nash and Hudson. The history of Jeep is really complicated. Kaiser merged with Willys-Overland (one of the smokestacks from the original plant still exists emblazoned with "WIllys" on it) to become Kaiser-Jeep. It was later acquired by AMC. I believe is was briefly by itself before being taken over by Chrysler. Another badge part of Chrysler was the Imperial. It was initially (I think) a model for Chrysler before becoming its own division, only to become a model within Chrysler again. The White Motor Company build trucks and was most famous for its manufacturing of vehicles in WW 2, where it made, among other things, the famous halftracks. John DeLorean worked for Pontiac in the 60s and started the muscle car era when he and Jim Wangers (and others) made the GTO "after hours". And a fun fact - my grandfather was a pattern maker and made the pattern for the famous (or infamous) grill for the first Edsel! It wasn't his design; he only made the pattern. I can't verify it with 100% certainty, but both my dad and uncle tell me this.

I used to have a used Pontiac Grand Prix just like the one you showed in the video, and it was my favorite car that I ever owned. It was from the time when Grand Prix's were still those big huge boats. It just lasted me forever and it just kept going and going until finally the doors and stuff got all rusted out and then I got rid of it. I wanted to get another one but I settled for a 1980s Monte Carlo instead, which was almost as great.

Wow, I didn't realize how many car brands that were around when I was kid are gone now. I still remember the little Mercury jingle: "Imagine yourself in a Mercury now" and how I thought how stupid Scions looked when they first came out.

The very first car I remember my dad having was an Opel. Great small car, very easy to maintain.

Very nice video Rhetty. Cars from the very beginning to the mid to late 80's all had personality all of their own, once the 90's appeared all of that beauty was tossed out the window by automobile companies, and adopted the one design to fit all. Now every automobile looks the same, all of what made one car different from another is gone, and I really miss those days. One of my fondest memories was that on every Saturday where I lived throughout the 60's, 70's the neighborhood would begin to wake up with the sight of fathers washing their cars in their driveways while we munched on our Captain Crunch as we watched cartoons on our black, and white T.V's, and we couldn't wait to get outside to ride our bikes (haaa, we use to drive everyone crazy with the clacking of the hockey cards in our spokes), play street hockey or just see what we could get ourselves into. To this day even now when I'm in my 60's I can still remember a time without worry or fear of anything. It's amazing how I can remember the smells of early morning in the summer. Even the the air smelled different, and things tasted better. I feel so sad for the young people today. EDIT: I just remembered something I did about two years ago which was hunt down all of the Sears catalogue's from the those early days I use to browse through (my personal favorite was of course the Christmas catalogue's), and came across a site which has them all. I literally spent weeks browsing the old catalogue's, and I tell ya it brought back some incredible memories. The only reason why I think I posted about the Sears catalogue's is because I remember playing with things which are looked upon todays as hazards, and in truth it makes me wonder how in the name more young children didn't pass away from exploding clackers, or using chemicals no child should be mixing. Any way, excellent channel Rhetty.

Cars were a lot more interesting back in the day. There are some cool cars today, but they are usually the very high priced models. Most of the affordable cars today are kind of boring and one brand pretty much looks like any one of the others.. Though of all the ones you mentioned, the only brand I really miss is Pontiac. I was a huge fan of the GTO's and Trans Ams and I remember back in maybe 1968 or 69 as a kid and seeing a red Pontiac Bonneville convertible with a white interior and saying to my 6 or 7 year old self "Self, that's the car I want when I grow up!" LOL

Thank you, Rhett!! I love & miss old cars. I found out a few years back that "Jeep" came from the military "GP", (General Purpose Vehicle), which is now pronounced as "Jeep" (GP). I loved my red '91 Cougar but longed for a '69 Cougar. My favorite car was what my mom's boyfriend had in 1969. A white Jaguar X-KE convertible Roadster. Great content as always!!