Did you ever drive or own one of these extinct car brands? 🚙

You know you’re getting old when you remember most of these cars like it was yesterday 🫤

DMC manufactured in Northern Ireland not in the US

DeLorean was made in Northern Ireland .

Every brand my mom had went "extinct." AMC Gremlin, Mercury Zephyr, Datsun 510 or 710 wagon, Pontiac Grand Prix, then Oldsmobile Aurora. Oh she LOVED that Aurora. She has a Buick Lucerne right now. At this rate, Buick better watch out LOL!!!!! An old lady around town here still cruises around in her long-passed-away husband's 1939 Plymouth coupe. She's really shy when asked about it. I'm curious who maintains it because it's in beautiful condition.

I loved Plymouth especially the 70 Barracuda, 68 Roadrunner, 69 GTX, and 56-59 Fury.

My grandmother had a 1948 Packard I still remember it.

I think Studebaker, especially the Avanti, would have been a good candidate for this video. That said, I enjoyed the video. I remember the huge fleets of Checker cabs in New York City.

I had a beautiful 1971 AMC pistachio-colored Javelin! It was a great sports car!

Drove a 70 Plymouth Roadrunner in highschool in 1980 and 1981. Baddest car in the school parking lot!

My first car was a 1972 Plymouth Duster. Like all the other firsts from that time, it made life special.

I can remember my small town's DeSoto dealership (now a beauty parlor). My first car was a Mercury, and I also owned an Oldsmobile while my father owned a Plymouth. The Rolls Royce of America was the Duesenberg (which you should have included in this video).

My aunt dove a 1952 Hudson Hornet, and I fell in love with that car. Never since has there been an automobile which has caught my fancy as that one!

My dad had a 59 Sudabaker! Drove it till he died! It's still in the family!

I'm still driving my '97 Saturn SW2, still looks new except where in parking lots other drivers have deposited foreign paint upon its corners, great mileage, it never stranded me and it's never been in the shop. It's needed new tires once, a new battery once and once a year it gets new oil. It was my first new car purchase and I remember at the time wondering if it would be my last and that sure looks like it might come true. Yes, I'm pretty happy with it.

I don’t know how you can introduce De Soto without showing their iconic cars from the late 1950s, which were so influential for a brief period in American car design. See THE FORWARD LOOK, 1957.

My family has had a history of killing off brands. We had two Studebakers, an Oldsmobile, Rambler, Plymouth, Mercury and a Saturn.

No, I never owned one of these discontinued brands, but I admired many of them.

My family had a Checker station wagon. It was a beast. Three major accidents, including one rollover, and it gave us more than 350,000 miles. In the 1960s that was a little more than three lifetimes for the average car. It was a great vehicle for a large family.

I owned a 1978 Olds 98 , an 89 Olds 98, and a 1987 Olds Firenza. They were great cars!!

Had a Pontiac and an Oldsmobile 98 we lovingly called Sherman because it was a tank!!!

Absolutely loved my 89' Cutlass Supreme. Cannot believe it's been 35 years.

Pontiac is another one

You didn't mention Studebaker. I drove a 1976 Oldsmobile, a 1948 DeSoto, a 1970 Plymouth Duster, and I believe a couple of others. All the cars you listed, except for the DeLorean, were rather common in the early sixties. The 1964 Mercury was one of my favorites. In had a top that was 'straight' in the rear, unlike the Thunderbird, that had a top that was sloped in the rear. One thing about cars of that era. One could tell the make and year of the vehicle from several hundred miles away, unlike many of the vehicles of today when one can't tell which car is which until they are close enough to see the logo.

I wish we still had CHECKER CAB

My Mom had a Studebaker Silver Hawk and my Dad had a Packard Carribean.

We got my uncle’s 1950 Studebaker Champion 4-door and had it completely restored. We belong to a chapter of the International Studebaker Drivers Club, and there are regular meets.

Over the years, I've owned a '67 Pontiac Catalina, '75 Plymouth Valient, '78 Oldsmobile Delta 88, and a '73 Oldsmobile 98 Regency Deluxe...all good cars and I miss each one of them.

First car was a 1967 Mercury Cougar

I guess I've been plagued by purchasing cars whose makers couldn't compete. My dad owned a 1946 DeSoto, the first car I learned to drive, I then bought a Nash Rambler, an American Motors Gremlin, and when kids came along, a Plymouth Station Wagon ( the one that rusted and lost body parts as you drove, including the radio antenna and the front fender reflectors, and eventually the passenger floor boards (replaced with plywood)), a 1992 Olds 98 (which made many trips from Ohio to Florida Universities where sometime during those journeys required two front end replacements, three complete brake job replacements, one complete paint job. I sold it with the sky roof rusted shut) and finally in 1993 I bought a Demo Saturn SC (after 23,000 miles an 2 yrs the engine siezed while being serviced at a GM dealer). I now have a top-of-the-line 2008 Mazda 6, with nearly 100,000 miles and no except normal maintenance (and as expected Mazda doesn't make this model anymore)

great memories, my Dad had a 59 Olds, Big Red and White 4 door, a beautiful car, the speedometer used fluid to tell you how fast you were going, Great Video, Thank You.

I've owned a rambler American, Plymouth fury, AMC eagle, a 1950 Plymouth businessman coup and a mercury meteor

I don't think you should have added car companies that were a spin-off of Ford or GM. The companies didn't die. They were just discontinued product lines...😮‍💨

I had a Oldsmobile 442 1970, and i loved it.

I worked in a Buick dealership in the 90s and it was hilarious to me that in 92 …. 93….. 94 nobody would come in and buy a Buick roadmaster but then once they were discontinued suddenly we would get six or seven a day walking into the dealership, asking for the Buick roadmaster, pretending like they didn’t know it had been discontinued and then they’d get angry at us because it had been discontinued by Buick and I always asked them. “ Why didn’t you come in last year or the year before when we had plenty of them and we were advertising.? “

The Fabulous Hudson Hornet was the inspiration behind Paul Numan"s character in Disney's Cars

My dad owned a ‘53 Packard, ‘67 Oldsmobile 98 coupe, 1970s and 1980s Mercury Grand Marquis, 1987 Mercury Cougar XR-7. I owned a 1979 Ford Thunderbird (model now discontinued) and a 1982 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, 1991 Mercury Grand Marquis.

I remember yellow taxi in San Diego in 81. 5 friends and myself took a ride. The first car I got laid was a Ford pinto.

I wish Saturn’s no haggle pricing and emphasis on customer satisfaction had caught on. I bought three consecutive Saturns because I detested the traditional dealers haggling over price! Amazing that this antiquated system of selling cars still survives in the age of the internet.

I like the clear pronunciation and pleasant speaking pace in the videos on the channel. These videos are very suitable for practicing understanding spoken English.

Absolutely a delightful report!

Had a 54 Hudson Super Wasp. 262 flathead. Beautiful machine

Wow. Loved the oldies.

I had 3 of them! 1949 Desoto, 1950 Studebaker and 1955 Nash Metropolitan. Went from large to small and loved them all!

Mercury Grand Marquis Brougham, Pontiac Executive, Plymouth Fury, Olds 98 Regency. The Mercury and Olds were both tough as nails.

Thank you for this great presentation. Being a senior citizen, I've seen (and driven) these brands, except for Hudson, and Desoto) I've owned four Saturns, and still drive a 2007 Saturn Aura as my daily driver. If you showed it, I missed Studebaker cars & pickup trucks.. I liked the briefed-style of your video. Thanks, again.

Owned an Oldsmobile, Plymouth, & AMC.

you forgot, Pontiac, Kaiser, Nash, LaSalle, Metropolitan, studebaker Lark, Crosley, Edsel

In 1952 my parents bought a Nash Statesman Country Club, a two-door hardtop. I loved my ‘69 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser wagon!

Thank you.

I miss Oldsmobile!

My favorite cars were 1956 Plymouths. I had two of them! Loved that push-button transmission! My husband had Oldsmobiles and a Packard, which I think was his favorite. I've also had an AMC Pacer...we called it the "Pisser" because it was yellow and kinda piddled along. My granddad had a Hudson at one time, and his last car was a Nash...not a Rambler, but a Nash. He sold it to my dad, and when I was middle-school age I'd sit in it in the driveway and listen to the radio when there was nothing on TV that I wanted to watch.

I had a '86 Cutlass Supreme for five years and I loved it! I got a little ache in my heart when I saw the photo. Thanks for the memories. Oh, wish you would have shown the 1950 Mercury Coupe. I "borrowed" my friends car before I had a license...

I still drive a Saturn Aura. My dad had two Model Ts, a Model A pickup, two 1937 Fords, and a rare 1929 Essex sedan with the original mohair interior.

I have owned or driven Oldsmobiles snce 1961. Name an Olds model.....I have either owned it or driven it. GM didn't know a good thing when it saw it!!!!

I was in the auto repair industry for over fifty years and worked on all of these brands at some time. Lots of memories here.

Oldsmobile Cutlass V8 350 engine was one of my all time favs! Simply solid and appealing.

Our first car back in 1974 was a two tone blue and white 4 door Mercury Comet. A very reliable car!

Owned used '60 Rambler Classic. Poorly constructed, I went 'up' and got a '64 Olds Cutlass coupe (copper/white) two tone. Countless memories.

How about the Geo Storm? Got mine in 1993. I like to say it was one of the last off the assembly line. Over 200k and still running great.

Learned to drive my grandpa’s rambler American. Central California, no AC no radio no power anything-when I asked my grandpa about a radio he said who needs it we can sing. When I took my drivers test the instructor did a safety check of the car and impounded it for many safety violations mostly bulbs and wiper blades. Had to go to my dads work and borrow his 69 caddy with no experience with power anything my instructor passed me with a 94 got points off for hard braking. Still got my license that day, to get my grandpas car out of the impound lot, went across the street to pep boys with a list and they helped me make it right. They made a fortune being across from the dmv

I have an 04 Saturn Vue 5 speed, 4 cylinder with 230,000 miles and a plastic body and I would never sell it.

I owned a 1950 DeSoto. What a great car with innovative features for its time. Mine was a 4 dr flat head 6 with semiautomatic fluid drive so spacious and comfortable. Loved it. I’ll always regret selling it.

Rode in these at Fort Leonardwood in Missouri. They got us around

My high school graduation gift in 1995 was a brand new Saturn SL1 Turbo. I drove the car from 1995 to 2001. Unfortunately, I was in a crash in icy conditions in Illinois and the car was rendered totalled by my insurance company. I still would have my Saturn SL1 today if it was not totalled.

I love my 1978 Oldsmobile Cutlass!

Yes, I owned the Saturn Sky, the Plymouth Volare, the Mercury Capri, and the Olds Alero...

I was born in December of 1953 and came up with 23 (American) car brands (in 30 seconds) that I've filled the gas tanks on, that no longer exist. Studebaker, Pontiac, Edsel, Nash, Rambler, GEO, LaSalle, Jeepster, Willys, Henry K, the big Kaiser, Tucker, Frasier, International Harvester, Ransom Elias Olds (REO), and I've FELT everyone of these (and a dozen more) sheetmetal if not dipsticks! There are 250% MORE American car brands that no longer exist than the one's that exist...Duesenberg, Marmon, Fisher (pre-Chevrolet), Fleetwood (yup BEFORE Cadillac), Duryea, Cord, Auburn, Franklin, Essex, Detroit Electric (DELCO), the list goes on...

My dad had a 54 Packard. There were four of us boy and it was so big the four of us could be messing around while our parents in the front seat could ride in comfort without being bothered by the noise.

You didn't mention Pontiac. My first car was a Pontiac Grand Prix. My next car was a Oldmobile Alero. Am I cursed? Will Kia die next?

We grew up going to school in a 53 Hudson Jet and a 59 pink Rambler station wagon. My dad swore by and at the Hudson Co.

While it wasn't mentioned in your presentation, I learned to drive in the "Nash Rambler," in the mid'60s. It was a smallish vehicle, which was fine for me. It had a push-button transmission. I don't know if any other vehicle had that feature.

I feel old, I've had a car from a manufacturer on this list. My Mercury Sable had a cool feature I've not had on any car since: it had dual visors. So you could pop one visor onto the side window, and then pull a second one down for the windshield. Great for when you're making turns and the sun keeps "moving" back and forth between the two windows. Another manufacturer that should be on the list is Pontiac. My first car was a Grand Prix.

I have a 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass S that I've owned twice. Bought it in high school in 1984, sold it to a friend in 1986 (and regretted it immediately), bought it BACK from him in 2014, 30-years and the same month as the first time. Still runs and drives, fast as heck and have collected a lot of new and old parts for restoration which I'm hoping to start in a couple of years. Since I'll never part with it again the family joke is that I'll be buried in it.

You missed the AMC Javelin. It was a really sporty car with some good guts. One of the things that helped the DeSoto to die out was that it was the Chrysler "test car." New ideas were tried out on the DeSoto and if it worked out it would be used on the Chrysler. The last thing that was tried on the DeSoto was to change the wiring to all copper wiring. Didn't work out and the electrical problems killed it for sure. My dad owned a 51 or 2 DeSoto. I remember the hood ornament that lit up when the headlights were on. Mercury was a good car with a good engine. Many times when someone was rebuilding their Ford engine they'd get high compression Mercury heads. They seemed to be better for power. My brother had a 52 Mercury Montclair. It was a really nice car and I liked it a lot. What happened is he was in the Navy and sending money home to my mother to take to the bank for him to pay for the car and she was using for other things. Only a single mention of the Studebaker? Studebaker manufactured horse-drawn wagons even up to when it was manufacturing cars. Studebaker's designs in the 50s were way ahead of their times. They were also one of the first to introduce 4-speed manual transmission for their cars. Almost bought a 55 Studebaker Hawk with a the 4-speed manual on the floor. It was quite the runner with the huge engine it had. Don't be so glib about the Plymouth. I had a 59 Sport Fury. It was a really great car. Good engine with good power. One thing I really liked about it is the swing-out front bucket seats. They were really convenient to get in and out. I wonder why they were discontinued? Sadly, it had a difficult time competing with Ford and Chevy. I recall racing a Ford 312 cid with my 318 cid and taking it. I had a Saturn as well. It had a really good engine that got quite good gas mileage on the road. But in town, it was a bit off. It was a really sporty 5-speed that could cruise nicely at 70 on the freeways at 38 or so MPG. Where's Pontiac? The Bonneville was quite the top of the line car. And just can't forget about the GTO. It's still a sought after car. My dad had a couple of Pontiacs. It had a hood ornament that lit up like the DeSoto as well.

Whilst you were on the Hudson brand, you could have mentioned the Essex. I had a 1928 Super Six tourer as my first car. A sweet little car.

In the late 80s i got a Gremlin..AMC Gremlin...a very tough and almost undestructible car...a die hard one..a real warrior...👍👍🇸🇻

I had a1989 OIdsmobile Cutlass Ciera, and 1994 Saturn SC2.

I am surprised you did not mention Studebaker, other than as the merger partner of Packard. They started out as a wagon and stagecoach builder, but exited the automobile manufacturing business not long after the merger. They were unable to complete with the GM-Ford price wars of the 1960's. One of their product lines that survives today is STP.

I was born in 1992. I didn't hear about DeSoto, Packard or Hudson until older as a child. Doc Hudson in the first Cars movie from Pixar is a Hudson Hornet. America is a continent, not a country. Mercury and Saturn are also two planets in the solar system, by the way. I love history so I enjoy videos like this.

When I was a kid, neighbors had a Checker Marathon wagon. It was cavernous.

Yes, I had olds and Saturns until two years ago

My dad had a 1961 Rambler by AMC that you could rebuild the engine by removing a beam in the front end without removing the engine assembly from the car. You dropped the lower journals of the connecting rods and tapped the pistons up through the engine.

Owned Oldsmobile,Pontiac, and Saturn. I had 4 Oldsmobile Cutlasses 1993 Saturn SW3 wagon and the Pontiac Bonneville spanning from 1969 to 2000. Grew up an Oldsmobile fan. Saturn was a unique car company. NO PRICE HAGGLING. Service was very good. I really wanted Saturn to succeed, but GM starting to cut corners. Saturn was their big baby to fight the small car imports. That was one of the vehicles I had fun driving. I had 4 Oldsmobile cutlasses. 1969, 1974, 1976 and 1985. 1969 was the best Cutlass I’ve owned . 1974 Cutlass Supreme was the worst. 76 was the most sportiest (442 appearance and handling packaged). My 85 Cutlass Salon was the best handling. The 2000 Pontiac Bonneville SLE was the sportiest sedan with good handling and comfort. After 2000, I’ve owned 4 Subaru’s and a Hyundai ELECTRIC VEHICLE. I was loyal to GM from 1969 - 2000. GM was not loyal to me. That’s why I decided to own imports.😩

Fun fact: the man who designed the Chemist Cab also designed the Gibson Firebird guitar.

48 Plymouth, 52 Studebaker coupe, 55 Nash Farina, 57 Studebaker Silver Hawk. The Plymouth I called the Black Bump. The engine sounded like a sewing machine.The Nash looked like a upside down bathtub. It had a thermostatic controled heating system and a Packard Interceptor engine. I loved the styling of the Studebakers. A local has a mint looking 51 coupe he put a Corvette engine in.

My great uncle had a 1950 Hudson Commodore. I still regret not buying it from him. I owned a Plymouth Duster back in the day, but it wasn't the fast option... It had Chrysler's slant six, but was still a fun car.

Hernando De Soto discovered the Mississippi River. The GM brand LaSalle was named for the Frenchman who sailed down the Mississippi from the Illinois River.

Love the checker cabs. We get home from a deployment and 6 of us would comfortably ride to the airport. We each give the cabbie 5 dollars apiece. The meter for the airport was 24 dollars.

Fun fact: the DeSoto Air Flow (shown at 3:20 ) inspired the design of Chrysler's PT Cruiser (2000 - 2010).

Uk same .i had morris , wolseley, riley.

We have a Saturn Vue model year 2007. I drive it almost every day. The vehicle has 88,000 miles.

As far as the brands listed here I have an Oldsmobile Cutlass 83 model. Also y'all forgot to include Pontiac, Imperial, and Edsel brands that were iconic each in their own right across the big three. Because Imperial was created as a upscale luxury division for Chrysler, Pontiac became the performance / excitement division for General Motors as well as a viable alternative to Chevrolet and Oldsmobile, and despite its very short run Edsel was in a lot of ways ahead of its time especially with features such as push button shifter which was dominant in most of its products and although the division did not last long it spawned two engine families of big block engines that continued to be used by Ford for quite a few years after, the Fe big block 332, 352 390, 427, 428, as well as the MEL big block, 410, 436, 462 which actually was the superior engine to the FE big block because of its combustion chamber architecture being the same as the Chevrolet W series big block

Where to start. My family owned a 49 Hudson and a Willys when I was growing up. My first car was a 54 Plymouth. I have owned Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles, Mercurys, and a Saturn(great car). Never could get my hands on a Packard though. Oh yeah, I forgot a Studebaker, which you forgot to mention.

I have a 2004 Pontiac Aztek. I've had it for 20 years, and has been a great vehicle for me.

I miss my 3.3 V6 1993 Olds Cutlass Cruiser, a honey-colored woodie station wagon.

I loved my Plymouth branded Neon. Unfortunately , it had weak head gaskets, and I had to let it go only after a decade. Blowing the head gasket once might be understandable, but a second time less than two years later is ridiculous.

My father had a 70s Oldsmobile cutlass salon 4 door sedan 5.8 V8 here in the Netherlands. People didn’t knew what they saw. It was like a big monster in this small country in the middle of oir average compact vehicles here like the VW beetle’s and the citroen cv2’s… and the opel Kadett’s and the ford escort’s with their small 4 cylinder engines in that time.

In the early 1950's before they were married, my father had a Nash and my mother had an Olds.

The DeLorean DMC-12 was produced in Northern Ireland between 1981 and 1982.