Oldsmobile

In the painting of the Milkmaid’s family, they were using horses as a source of transportation, but now in 1940’s there is multiple source of transportation. In the ad, you notice the happy family driving their brand new Oldsmobile. This car is different from any other cars. This car has automatic drives, you don’t need a clutch to press the gas anymore, and lastly you save ten to fifth teen percent on gas. This advertisement does a really good job appealing to a viewer sense of logos because the viewer begins to think about all of the benefits of having this car, and how it could make their life more convenient. This advertisement is intended for the wealthy, and middle class citizen because this car is brand new, and most likely there are not too many cars like…

After opening, Stroh’s acquires many rivalries such as Schaefer, Schlitz, Old Milwaukee, Lone Star, and Colt 45. This brewery is what opened Detroit to a multitude of factories and plants. In 1896, Henry Ford created the first automobile, which he called the Quadricycle. Another auto mobile producer, Ransom E. Olds opened Detroit's first auto manufacturing plant in 1901. Ransom Eli Olds was a pioneer of the American automotive industry, for whom both the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named.…

My project was about how to throw a curveball to do this project I practiced with a baseball almost everyday in my backyard. Or I went to the batting cages and tried to get help to know how to throw a curveball.My dad also helped me with this project and he taught me to throw the tiny curveball. My project is still going I need to practice more and ask for more help when presentation day comes I think I could be ready by then.If not then I will present what i've got But I am pretty sure I can…

Elgin history spotlight – Nancy Lou Webster This is the story of longtime Elgin resident/artist Nancy Lou Webster and her 1935 Straight 8 Buick Coupe with suicide doors named “Katie.” The story begins with Nancy Lou as a teen in Oxford, Mississippi. “Miss Kate Skipwith was a philanthropist who lived on Main Street in Oxford, Mississippi. She wanted a car so she ordered a new car to be shipped by rail to her. A 1935 Buick Series 40 Coupe. It arrived by rail in Oxford with five miles on the…

General Motors was founded on September 16, 1908 in Flint, Michigan, quickly developing into an industrial powerhouse in the United States, and more recently becoming one of the largest car and truck manufactures in the world. The beginning of General Motors Corporation can be traced back to 1892, when R.E. Olds collected all of his savings to convert his father's naval and industrial engine factory into the Olds Motor Vehicle Company to build horseless carriages. In 1895 the first car was…

100 Years of Oldsmobile Classic Cars Oldsmobile Cut from the General Motors Team When General Motors cut Oldsmobile from the team in 2004, it was the first sign the opening decade to the new millennium would change America's largest car company forever. Unfortunately, for fans of GM cars the closure of Oldsmobile would be followed by the [death of the Pontiac Motor Division] just six years later. It's not easy to shut down a brand that helped start your company and built quality cars for over…

Impossible Survival of 2004 Oldsmobile Silhouette A fact which is well known to the entire automobile industry as well as the fans of Oldsmobile is the demise of the brand within a very short span of time. The last batch being produced by this brand of all the cars and the models was in the year 2004, and after that the company completely withdrew from producing anymore vehicles. Same thing happened with the Oldsmobile Silhouette which was a well known minivan entered in the markets by the year…

For the first time Cadillac went with a front wheel drive set up borrowed from [the Oldsmobile branch of General Motors]. The modified turbo 400 automatic transmission used a chain drive to rotate a front mounted differential. This allowed for a flat floor pan in the front and rear passenger compartments. The sixth generation cars would see some of the largest displacement engines ever produced by an American automotive manufacturer. In 1967 they installed the small engine. The 429 cubic inch…

The Ford Model-T had been an inspiration to inventors, even though the race for building automobiles started in the eighteen-ninetys Henry Ford’s model was a masterpiece. The twenties were kind of like the space race in a way. Henry Ford, Ransom Olds (founder of Oldsmobile), the Dodge brothers, and many others were going strong in the race. In nineteen-twenty the United States alone produced two-million three-hundred thousand cars, which means the United States were home to ninety-six percent…

This includes the V6, V8, I6 & Iron Duke I4. Another version of the transmission, the Buick / Oldsmobile / Pontiac (BOP) TH350, will be compatible with the Buick 90 degree V6 & V8 engines, as well as the Oldsmobile and Pontiac 90 degree V8. This “BOP” version features a “valley” at the twelve o’clock position of the block flange where the peak would be on the Chevy version. Differences such as this will only affect the front bell of the case, and all TH350 cases are similar from that point back.…