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A couple years back, we asked this question and enjoyed the hell out of the responses. Now we've got several octoquillion new readers, so let's drag this QOTD out of the junkyard and let the new guys tell their stories. More »
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We asked you about your first Plymouth and your first Pontiac, so let's talk about another marque that got the heave-ho during the current decade: Oldsmobile. More »
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A 1956 Olds 88 was the first car I ever rode in, so it was pretty cool to find this ad, in which "Pete," apparently under the influence of then-legal peyote, speaks of himself in the third person to the local Oldsmobile dealer and explains why GM would never, ever dump the Oldsmobile marque. You got a big (for '56) 324-cube Rocket V8 with your 88, plus the knowledge that the very first rock-and-roll song used the Rocket 88 as its subject matter. More »
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