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In 1909 General Motors acquired half of Oakland Motor Car Company. GM's founder William Durant, a friend of Murphy's, was actually more interested in his talent and expertise than his Oakland cars. But before Durant could use these talents, Murphy died. Shortly after this GM purchased full control of Oakland. The Oakland was very successful car through 1920. Then, a minor economic depression combined with inefficient production weakened Oakland and GM.

General Motors was in disarray by 1920 and Durant who had founded the company 12 years earlier lost control of it again after loosing and regaining control several times before. The problem was that all the company's seven divisions were fighting for the same customers, and none were trying to gain the Model T Fords customers, which had the largest market share.
GM's prices ranged from $795 for the lowest end Chevrolet, to $5,690 for the highest priced Cadillac. Since GM wasn't in the position to go after the Model T, a committee of company executives led by the new GM President Alfred Sloan, decided to create a car to fill a long-standing price gap between Chevrolet and Oldsmobile. Besides being a gap filler this new car would serve as a platform to share vehicle components. This would improve volume efficiency. 
The Pontiac was created in 1926 as a replacement to the Oakland.
The Pontiac had the distinction of being the first General Motors car to be designed to fit in a specific market slot.
The first Pontiac was the Series 6-27, debuted at the 1926 New York Auto Show. It was built on a 110 inch wheelbase and it featured a Fisher designed body and a six cylinder Lead engine.

Demand soon outpaced capacity and by mid 1926, the division began plans to build a $15 million assembly plant in Pontiac, Michigan.

In 1927 Harley Earl created an Art & Color studio, which was an industry's first. Earl first designed the highly successful LaSalle, and he later became head of GM Design. Art & Color and designed all GM models, including Pontiac. 
Harley Earl was with GM for many years and was responsible for such cars as the Corvette.
He stayed with General Motors until his retirement in 1959.
For a more detailed history of the Pontiac please visit
http://www.welovepontiacs.com/history.html
 

What we are looking for is a 1958 Pontiac Parisienne Sports Coupe, in two tone colours of Burma Green lower and Calypso green top and side panels.
When this car was sold on 1962, in the east end of Toronto Canada to a person who was moving and driving it to the west, unfortunately I didn’t keep his name.

The 1962 Ontario plate had 9670 on it. These were a series of license plates that went on sale at Queens Park and if you went in early in January, you could get the four digit plate.
The car was equipped with a big block 348 motor with dual exhausts. I had the air cleaner and valve covers chrome plated along with the oil cap and some other small engine items.
It originally had a Turbo-Glide transmission, but it was changed by me to a Power-Glide unit when the Turbo-Glide needed major, expensive repairs!
The gear shift quadrant was changed from GR to L. The car had a wonder bar radio with a rear seat speaker, power windows, power steering and power brakes!
The seats were covered with clear plastic seat covers. Mileage on this car when sold in 1962 was approximate 50.000 original miles! Being the second owner, the first being an Executive, it was just like new inside and out.

I installed an auxiliary amp meter and oil pressure gauge discreetly under the dash as the two original instruments were idiot lights which I did not care for.
There was a custom trailer hitch on the car with a wiring harness in the trunk.
I obtained a pair of Foxcraft Fender Skirts from Canadian Tire and painted them using touchup spray paint, which unfortunately did not match 100%.
I had a large exterior mirror mounted on the driver’s door. Both doors had stainless edgings to protect them from paint chips.

If anyone knows the whereabouts of this car I certainly would like to know about it.
The reason I sold the car was that I was getting married and needed the money for a down payment on a house which I succeeded in doing.

Bob Crocker
4 Brasher Drive
Tillsonburg, Ontario  N4G 5T2
Phone 519 688 5925
E Mail thecrockers at this link 

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