Topic: Motoring Memories: Pontiac, 1926-2010

[Autos_Editor]

Auto historian, Bill Vance, traces the history and eventual demise of General Motor's Pontiac brand.

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[D70]

My first American car, 6 cylinder and 2 speed automatic transmission

http://www.flickr.com/photos/d70w7/6336450242/

[Solstice2006]

Interesting article, was a little disappointed to see it so short, but I guess you can go into too much detail, or we would have to buy the book.  Anyway regarding the "2 seater Solstice in 1996" I think you mean 2006.

[bridgecity]

My first American car, 6 cylinder and 2 speed automatic transmission

http://www.flickr.com/photos/d70w7/6336450242/

My dad had a 52 Pontiac 2 door post sitting in the yard beside the house for about 10 years when I was a kid.  I remember Mom gettng on his case to get rid of it or "park it down by the bush", as she said it was an eysore and he didn't do much with it.  6 cylinder, three on the tree.  He'd start it up once or twice and year and we'd go for a cruise down the backroads.  Lots of chrome, inside and out.  Very cool car, body was in good shape.  He always had aspirations of getting it painted but that never happened and sold it for a song in the early 2000's.

[ktm525]

He didn't even mention their best performing car the G8 GT / G8 GXP

[Winterpeg]

Still believe they should of tossed Buick instead of Pontiac.....but as they say.....them's the brakes eh?!     

[sailor723]

My earliest memory of any of my Mom's cars was a 1965 Pontiac Parisenne convertible with a 283 V8 she got when I was about 5.

Just like this....

[Oldsguy]

My earliest memory of any of my Mom's cars was a 1965 Pontiac Parisenne convertible with a 283 V8 she got when I was about 5.

Just like this....

Cool car. My dad was a Pontiac man through most of the 1960s with a '62, '63, '65, and '67. Our '65 was a Parisienne 4-door hardtop in burgundy with a red interior. Sharp-looking car to a 9 year old. Interestingly, when he got rid of the '67 he ended up buying an Impala from the Pontiac dealer that they had taken in trade and hated it - should have bought another Pontiac. They were on a roll in the '60s but went off the rails badly in the '80s and  '90s and deserved to go. They were surprisingly popular in Canada right to the end though.