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We're kind of the opposite ends of the spectrum. When I first came to live in Lansing in the early 1980s, if there were ten cars at an intersection, seven of them would have been Oldsmobiles, including the police car. Even now, after Olds is no more, they are pretty common.
It's sad to see the old plants being torn down--not because of the elimination of Oldsmobile but because of GM downsizing. There were four large plants here that were shuttered last year and they are rapidly being demolished. My office here is about a block and a half from where Ransom Olds built his first Oldmobile, and about a half-mile from where the last Alero was made. Nothing lasts forever....
Still, I'm sure we have it easier here to find parts than it is Down Under.
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Norm Witte
Lansing, Michigan
'63 Ninety Eight Holiday Sports Sedan
'99 Aurora
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