Last Oldsmobile Rolls Off Assembly Line

[Professur]

By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN, Associated Press Writer

LANSING, Mich. - It's the end of the line for the oldest automotive brand name in the United States. The last Oldsmobile rolled off the line Thursday morning at the Lansing Car Assembly plant, which has produced the venerable vehicles for nearly a century.

The car, an Alero that will have signatures of plant employees inside the hood, will be displayed at the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum in Lansing for about four months, said Rebecca Harris, a spokeswoman for General Motors Corp.

They really should have crammed a 442 into it and peeled rubber all the way outta the assembly plant. Go out with a roar, not a whimper.

 

[Squiggy]

Always sorry to see one of them go...

*fondly remembers the days when you could identify a car at night just by the headlights...

 

[Professur]

or the vibration.

 

[Squiggy]

or Chryslers by the sound of their gear reduction starters...

 

[Inkara1]

I'd venture to guess that had GM actually done a decent job of making Oldsmobiles decent import-fighters in the early '90s, instead of just calling them import-fighters but still doing things such as keeping the cruise-control switch on the turn signal stalk where it's nice and inconvenient, then by the time they actually made decent import-fighters like the Intrigue in the late '90s it wouldn't have been too late.

 

[Gonz]

1897

2004

 

[chcr]

Well you gassed her up
Behind the wheel
With your arm around your sweet one
In your Oldsmobile
Barrelin' down the boulevard
You're looking for the heart of Saturday night

And you got paid on Friday
And your pockets are jinglin'
And you see the lights
You get all tinglin' cause you're cruisin' with a 6
And you're looking for the heart of Saturday night

Then you comb your hair
Shave your face
Tryin' to wipe out ev'ry trace
All the other days
In the week you know that this'll be the Saturday
You're reachin' your peak

Stoppin' on the red
You're goin' on the green
'Cause tonight'll be like nothin'
You've ever seen
And you're barrelin' down the boulevard
Lookin' for the heart of Saturday night

Tell me is the crack of the poolballs, neon buzzin?
Telephone's ringin'; it's your second cousin
Is it the barmaid that's smilin' from the corner of her eye?
Magic of the melancholy tear in your eye.

Makes it kind of quiver down in the core
'Cause you're dreamin' of them Saturdays that came before
And now you're stumblin'
You're stumblin' onto the heart of Saturday night

Well you gassed her up
And you're behind the wheel
With your arm around your sweet one
In your Oldsmobile
Barrellin' down the boulevard,
You're lookin' for the heart of Saturday night

Is the crack of the poolballs, neon buzzin?
Telephone's ringin'; it's your second cousin
And the barmaid is smilin' from the corner of her eye
Magic of the melancholy tear in your eye.

Makes it kind of special down in the core
And you're dreamin' of them Saturdays that came before
It's found you stumblin'
Stumblin' onto the heart of Saturday night
And you're stumblin'
Stumblin onto the heart of Saturday night

End of an era.