Defunct Big-3 US Makes?
 

I'm compiling a list of defunct (or soon to be) Big-3 passenger car makes
that were made and/or sold in the US. So far, I've come up with the
following - anybody know of any others? Thanks.

FoMoCo - Edsel
GM - LaSalle and Oldsmobile
MoPar - DeSoto and Plymouth

"chudwuh" > writes:

> I'm compiling a list of defunct (or soon to be) Big-3 passenger car makes
> that were made and/or sold in the US. So far, I've come up with the
> following - anybody know of any others? Thanks.
>
> FoMoCo - Edsel

Also Continental. The '50s Continental Mark II was actually a separate
brand. And Merkur...

> GM - LaSalle and Oldsmobile

Marquette, Oakland. In the '20s, each GM brand got a partner: Buick
and Marquette, Cadillac and LaSalle, Oakland and Pontiac. Come to
think of it, did Chevrolet get a little brother? Anyway, Pontiac was
the only nameplate that survived, cannibalizing its elder sibling
Oakland. Also Yellow Cab and Scripps-Booth. Rapid was the predecessor
to GMC. Oops, you said passenger cars.

> MoPar - DeSoto and Plymouth

Imperial. A separate brand from Chrysler. If you include the American
Motors heritage, there are Hudson, Essex, Terraplane, Rambler, and
Nash. Not to mention Willys and Overland.

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GM- Oakland

GM- Marquette

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GM - Viking cars and trucks, McLaughlin Buick, Maple Leaf trucks

Ford - Frontenac, Meteor, 40's & 50's Monarch - different than the American
Mercury

Chrysler - Fargo trucks

These were Canadian produced
..

Acadian, it was a Canadian division of GM in the 60s separate from
Pontiac.

chudwuh wrote:
>
> I'm compiling a list of defunct (or soon to be) Big-3 passenger car makes
> that were made and/or sold in the US. So far, I've come up with the
> following - anybody know of any others? Thanks.
>
> FoMoCo - Edsel
> GM - LaSalle and Oldsmobile
> MoPar - DeSoto and Plymouth

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Should mention that the Acadian models were the Canso and later in the
70s, after the division was closed, Pontiac took the model name and
ended up with the Pontiac Acadian which fueled a lot of confusion.

Eugene Blanchard wrote:
>
> Acadian, it was a Canadian division of GM in the 60s separate from
> Pontiac.
>
> chudwuh wrote:
> >
> > I'm compiling a list of defunct (or soon to be) Big-3 passenger car makes
> > that were made and/or sold in the US. So far, I've come up with the
> > following - anybody know of any others? Thanks.
> >
> > FoMoCo - Edsel
> > GM - LaSalle and Oldsmobile
> > MoPar - DeSoto and Plymouth
>
> --
> Eugene Blanchard
> DIY Kustom Hot Rod website http://www.therockies.ca/~blanchas/54pontiac
> Collecting Automotive Chrome website
> http://www.geocities.com/hood_ornaments
> Fiber optic PC motherboard website http://www.geocities.com/fibermother
> Using MOSFETs for H bridge website
> http://www.geocities.com/fet_h_bridge/
> Introduction to networking online book
> http://www.thelinuxreview.com/howto/...to_networking/
> Psycho Pathetic Bunny website
> http://www.geocities.com/frustration_bunny/

--
Eugene Blanchard
DIY Kustom Hot Rod website http://www.therockies.ca/~blanchas/54pontiac
Collecting Automotive Chrome website
http://www.geocities.com/hood_ornaments
Fiber optic PC motherboard website http://www.geocities.com/fibermother
Using MOSFETs for H bridge website
http://www.geocities.com/fet_h_bridge/
Introduction to networking online book
http://www.thelinuxreview.com/howto/...to_networking/
Psycho Pathetic Bunny website
http://www.geocities.com/frustration_bunny/

"Stephen H. Westin" wrote:
>
<snip>

> Hmm. Weren't the Vega, and later the Chevette, sold in Canada only as
> Pontiacs or perhaps Acadians? The U.S. later got Pontiac versions of
> each, as I recall. The Parisienne was originally a Pontiac Canada
> nameplate; I think it was basically a Catalina or Bonneville. Later,
> when the A-body was rebadged as a Bonneville, the B-body was
> resurrected as a Parisienne.
>

The Vegas were sold as Pontiac Astras and the the Chevette was called
the Acadian

--
Eugene Blanchard
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Collecting Automotive Chrome website
http://www.geocities.com/hood_ornaments
Fiber optic PC motherboard website http://www.geocities.com/fibermother
Using MOSFETs for H bridge website
http://www.geocities.com/fet_h_bridge/
Introduction to networking online book
http://www.thelinuxreview.com/howto/...to_networking/
Psycho Pathetic Bunny website
http://www.geocities.com/frustration_bunny/

James Anatidae wrote:
>
> "Stephen H. Westin" > wrote in message
> ...
> > "chudwuh" > writes:
> >
> > > I'm compiling a list of defunct (or soon to be) Big-3 passenger car
> makes
> > > that were made and/or sold in the US. So far, I've come up with the
> > > following - anybody know of any others? Thanks.
> > >
> > > FoMoCo - Edsel
> >
> > Also Continental. The '50s Continental Mark II was actually a separate
> > brand. And Merkur...
> >
> > > GM - LaSalle and Oldsmobile
> >
> > Marquette, Oakland. In the '20s, each GM brand got a partner: Buick
> > and Marquette, Cadillac and LaSalle, Oakland and Pontiac. Come to
> > think of it, did Chevrolet get a little brother? Anyway, Pontiac was
> > the only nameplate that survived, cannibalizing its elder sibling
> > Oakland. Also Yellow Cab and Scripps-Booth. Rapid was the predecessor
> > to GMC. Oops, you said passenger cars.
> >
> > > MoPar - DeSoto and Plymouth
> >
> > Imperial. A separate brand from Chrysler. If you include the American
> > Motors heritage, there are Hudson, Essex, Terraplane, Rambler, and
> > Nash. Not to mention Willys and Overland.
> >
> And Eagle.

Valiant was a separate "brand" for a year or two, after which it became
a Plymouth.

"Eugene Blanchard" > wrote in message
...
> "Stephen H. Westin" wrote:
> >
> <snip>
>
> > Hmm. Weren't the Vega, and later the Chevette, sold in Canada only
as
> > Pontiacs or perhaps Acadians? The U.S. later got Pontiac versions of
> > each, as I recall. The Parisienne was originally a Pontiac Canada
> > nameplate; I think it was basically a Catalina or Bonneville. Later,
> > when the A-body was rebadged as a Bonneville, the B-body was
> > resurrected as a Parisienne.
> >
>
> The Vegas were sold as Pontiac Astras and the the Chevette was called
> the Acadian
>
> --
> Eugene Blanchard
> DIY Kustom Hot Rod website
http://www.therockies.ca/~blanchas/54pontiac

Pontiac had its own B-body when the downsized '78s came out. The doors
and roof were the same as Chevy's (etc.) but the fenders, hood, trunk
lid, and of course minor trim parts were uniquely Pontiac. At the
second oil crisis, Pontiac decided to do only small cars and dropped the
B-body, reapplying the Bonneville name to the A body, former LeMans.
Evidently, they scrapped the B tooling entirely, because a year or two
later when gas prices sent down and they wanted a B-body again, the only
way to do it was to adopt the Parisienne, which had Chevy sheet metal
but Pontiac grille and taillights. Much less distinct from Chevy than
the earlier B-body had been.

Joe

Classic Car Fair ) wrote:
: Interesting. In the early 1960s we used to get Pontiac Parisiennes and
: Laurentians in New Zealand - what would these have been? Cheers

GM Canada built Pontiacs using Pontiac bodies on Chevy chassis. The
Parisienne was the top of the line for a while and the Laurentian was the
midlevel model. The low-end was called the Strato-Chief. They had Chevy
engines instead of Pontiac V-8s and looked kind of funny during the
wide-track years since the Chevy chassis had a much narrower tread.

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