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Article: Frank Girardot: Building excitement over a pile of junk
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- Whittier Daily News
- Article date:
- April 29, 2009
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Once the Pontiac motto said it all:
"We build excitement." Sadly, if there's anything left to be said
about the once-proud Pontiac brand, it's this: "We build nothing."
It's funny to watch Pontiac commercials from the 1960s on
YouTube. There's a great pseudo-psychedelic ad from the late 1960s
with Paul Revere and the Raiders extolling the features of a rust-
colored fastback roaring down a test track somewhere in the desert.
My brother had a 1970 455-HO 4-speed GTO he bought from a cousin
in Claremont, who bought it from a guy in Omaha.
"You can't even get one like this in California because of all
the smog crap they have to put inside," my cousin claimed as he
handed my brother Steve the ...