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Post by aj on Sept 23, 2015 23:01:02 GMT -6
Here is the documentary of GM and Oldsmobile and the impact it had in Lansing Michigan! Oldsmobile Was very important to the economy of one town that loved Oldsmobile dearly. Were not just an ordinary car company we are Oldsmobile, but our Oldsmobile employees are still building our new GM made today! You dont see Mercury, or Plymouth that is still being talked about as much like Oldsmobile! video.wkar.org/video/2365564756/My father had his own Oldsmobile dealership for over 25 years and my great uncle worked for Oldsmobile and MSU in Lansing for over 45 years so I Olds is a part of me and forever proud! Just thought I would share this to people who are Oldsmobile enthusiast like me! |
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Post by skizo on Sept 24, 2015 13:00:57 GMT -6
Someday I'll have a high enough data limit to see that ... <G> Same could be said of most any Michigan city though. Don't forget to show a little love for Orion, home of the Aurora!  |
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Post by Dan Wogan on Sept 24, 2015 20:58:33 GMT -6
Here is the documentary of GM and Oldsmobile and the impact it had in Lansing Michigan! Oldsmobile Was very important to the economy of one town that loved Oldsmobile dearly. Were not just an ordinary car company we are Oldsmobile, but our Oldsmobile employees are still building our new GM made today! You dont see Mercury, or Plymouth that is still being talked about as much like Oldsmobile! video.wkar.org/video/2365564756/My father had his own Oldsmobile dealership for over 25 years and my great uncle worked for Oldsmobile and MSU in Lansing for over 45 years so I Olds is a part of me and forever proud! Just thought I would share this to people who are Oldsmobile enthusiast like me! Heh, this whole post is quite fascinating to me, since I live in Lansing, MI, graduated from MSU, of course drive an Aurora, and work for the TV station you linked. That last one threw me off guard seeing it on this forum haha Thanks for sharing! |
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Post by aj on Sept 24, 2015 22:09:30 GMT -6
Here is the documentary of GM and Oldsmobile and the impact it had in Lansing Michigan! Oldsmobile Was very important to the economy of one town that loved Oldsmobile dearly. Were not just an ordinary car company we are Oldsmobile, but our Oldsmobile employees are still building our new GM made today! You dont see Mercury, or Plymouth that is still being talked about as much like Oldsmobile! video.wkar.org/video/2365564756/My father had his own Oldsmobile dealership for over 25 years and my great uncle worked for Oldsmobile and MSU in Lansing for over 45 years so I Olds is a part of me and forever proud! Just thought I would share this to people who are Oldsmobile enthusiast like me! Heh, this whole post is quite fascinating to me, since I live in Lansing, MI, graduated from MSU, of course drive an Aurora, and work for the TV station you linked. That last one threw me off guard seeing it on this forum haha Thanks for sharing! Your tv station was the only one that had the documentary to view to the public since a year ago this was made. It was only available to see at the movie theatre certain dates in Lansing and Detroit only. Did you even know about this documentary? I just think it is important for people to know about Oldsmobile and Lansing as a whole. Also that having the first auto factory with the first assembly line built and it being Oldsmobile that they still built cars all the way until the retirement of the Oldsmobile brand and that they had one of the best quality high rated cars for an century year old factory. |
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Post by aj on Sept 24, 2015 22:15:44 GMT -6
Someday I'll have a high enough data limit to see that ... <G> Same could be said of most any Michigan city though. Don't forget to show a little love for Orion, home of the Aurora! Of course we have love for the Lake Orion assmebly plant that has also built Oldsmobiles for years and the Aurora with great quality and the people who built them. I know some people that built our Aurora's and how proud they were to be building our cars. But the Aurora was Lansing's flagship sedan and the capital of the Aurora too. |
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Post by Dan Wogan on Sept 25, 2015 6:24:38 GMT -6
Heh, this whole post is quite fascinating to me, since I live in Lansing, MI, graduated from MSU, of course drive an Aurora, and work for the TV station you linked. That last one threw me off guard seeing it on this forum haha Thanks for sharing! Your tv station was the only one that had the documentary to view to the public since a year ago this was made. It was only available to see at the movie theatre certain dates in Lansing and Detroit only. Did you even know about this documentary? I just think it is important for people to know about Oldsmobile and Lansing as a whole. Also that having the first auto factory with the first assembly line built and it being Oldsmobile that they still built cars all the way until the retirement of the Oldsmobile brand and that they had one of the best quality high rated cars for an century year old factory. I honestly didn't. I know we had a showing of it yesterday evening but didn't know what the film was about. I do know the company that produced it along with a few of the employees very well. I watched the whole thing after you linked it and am really happy you shared it! |
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Post by rorafan on Sept 25, 2015 8:53:18 GMT -6
I love hearing and reading about the history of GM and Olds - this was nicely done. Thanks for sharing! Nice to see the pace car peeking out at 41:00 too! Reminds me...somewhere I have a VHS tape (remember those?!) of snippets of a tour of the Orion plant from 1995. Guess what they were building at the time?  One of these days I will convert to digital and upload somewhere. AJ - Awesome that you know some people that built our cars. I always wondered what they thought about them as they came together on the line. Would be cool to know if they had any insights/stories/etc. From them or the designers & engineers. I'm always interested in what goes on 'behind the scenes'! |
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Post by Dan Wogan on Sept 25, 2015 12:48:59 GMT -6
Nice to see the pace car peeking out at 41:00 too! Haha I saw that too and got way more excited than I should have hahaha |
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Post by aj on Sept 27, 2015 15:17:05 GMT -6
I love hearing and reading about the history of GM and Olds - this was nicely done. Thanks for sharing! Nice to see the pace car peeking out at 41:00 too! Reminds me...somewhere I have a VHS tape (remember those?!) of snippets of a tour of the Orion plant from 1995. Guess what they were building at the time? One of these days I will convert to digital and upload somewhere. AJ - Awesome that you know some people that built our cars. I always wondered what they thought about them as they came together on the line. Would be cool to know if they had any insights/stories/etc. From them or the designers & engineers. I'm always interested in what goes on 'behind the scenes'! I believe there is some stories of some people that built our Aurora's in "Setting The Pace" by Helen Early (first lady of Oldsmobile) and Jim Walkinshaw that went all over the States to record the Oldsmobile employees and their experiences/stories that they had shared. Its a pretty informative book, and nice articles to read. The pace car is at The R.E.Olds transportation museum in Lansing, Michigan that is in my sig. pic. The museum is only funded by us Olds enthusiasts and the city of Lansing and tourists. I just wanted to share this since im not the only Olds lover here, and thought it was an importance to show about how Oldsmobile was very important, even still today! We just have to keep the legacy and heritage alive. I have this on all of my GM cars:  |
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Post by skizo on Sept 27, 2015 18:10:13 GMT -6
Toyota has secured rights to the Oldsmobile name. Asked for comment, GM is remaining extremely tight-lipped on the issue at the moment while presumably trying to sort out internally what oversight allowed this to happen—and who to can for it.
Toyota officials have stated that GM’s copyright on the Oldsmobile brand name expired midway through 2013. In the midst of the constant corporate shuffling under way in the domestic automotive juggernaut, somehow responsibility for renewal slipped through the cracks and the name floated around untethered for almost a year before someone at Toyota noticed. The unsubstantiated—at this point—story is that the alert came from the astute nephew of a still-confidential executive, who works as a clerk in the U.S. Copyright Office.
According to Bob Carter, general manager of Toyota for Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Oldsmobile will fill the gap between Toyota and the company’s luxury flagship brand, Lexus. “Oldsmobile is an established and respected luxury nameplate,” Carter said. “We fully realize this acquisition is unconventional, but the opportunity to immediately acquire over 100 years’ worth of brand recognition couldn’t be missed.
“It’s a shame,” Carter said, “that a company with the proud history of Oldsmobile ever left the market, and we feel Toyota can establish the same sort of staying power with the Oldsmobile brand as we have with Lexus and Scion.”
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Post by XJSman89 on Sept 28, 2015 11:55:52 GMT -6
Someday I'll have a high enough data limit to see that ... <G> Same could be said of most any Michigan city though. Don't forget to show a little love for Orion, home of the Aurora! Nice photoshopping haha, it would be cool to actually take the Olds up to the Orion plant some day but it's not in the cards for me! |
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Post by skizo on Sept 28, 2015 18:20:16 GMT -6
What was your first clue? The shadows weren't right, or there were no stars in the background? Or was it just that Bob's parked on top of their bushes?
(I did the photoshop work for the "moon landing" too. <G>)
Wouldn't even be a day trip for me though. Plant is just cross state. You don't suppose they'd let me drive it down the assembly line?
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