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From a personal standpoint, I’m not likely to be an Oldsmobile buyer. Regardless of ad campaigns, my own memories of the Olds is that it was the car of choice for my mom’s folks. First, and one of my earliest memories, a huge white olds sedan (a Ninety Eight<\/a>?), with red seats you could lie cross-wise across, and the coolest speedometer ever (a green bar marching horizontally across the dashboard, which then turned orange when you passed a certain dangerous speed). <\/p>\n

That car eventually went away, replaced by a smaller red with a white landau top (a Cutless Supreme<\/a>?). Sportier, I suppose, but still The Grandparent Car, into which golf bags would be loaded.<\/p>\n

Eventually they stopped buying new Olds. And now nobody will<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(via Daimnation<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From a personal standpoint, I’m not likely to be an Oldsmobile buyer. Regardless of ad campaigns, my own memories of the Olds is that it was the car of choice…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30778,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/drones-deaths-and-sociopathy.html","url_meta":{"origin":6193,"position":0},"title":"Drones, deaths, and sociopathy","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-Oct-12 10:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"Drone got brought up last night in the debate, and Romney gave Obama's policy a giant thumbs-up.'Well, I believe that we should use any and all means necessary to take out people who pose a threat to us and our friends around the world. 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