Pontiac Follows Olds To Big Wrecking Yard In Sky

The last new Pontiac for sale on the lot at Lee Pontiac GMC in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., is a 2009 Pontiac Solstice coupe hardtop. Gary McCracken for The New York Times

Pontiac, 84, Dies of Indifference

We don't actually give the proverbial flying fuck at a rolling dough-nut, having never owned a car or been licensed to pollute the air from behind a steering wheel. Perhaps we feel a bit of nostalgia for the sense that life & income would go as GM intended, moving the consuming sheep from Chevrolet to Pontiac to Olds to Buick to Cadillac. (Hey, this could be quite a metaphor for the end of the American middle-class, if we gave a shit about those fucks in the first place. And since the sheep allowed themselves to be screwed into virtual non-existence, when they weren't willingly bending over for it — not unlike Pontiac itself, if The NYT is to be believed — they can all go to hell. )

Pontiac built its last car nearly a year ago, but the official end was set for Oct. 31, when G.M.’s agreements with Pontiac dealers expire.

“They were C.P.R.-ing a corpse for a long time,” said Larry Kummer, a retired graphic artist who has owned more than two dozen Pontiacs and runs the Web site PontiacRegistry.com.

A slideshow, which reminded us that the hateful pigs who held us prisoner for the first 18 yrs. of our existence had a Tempest at one time. The big deal w/ the Tempest was its four-cylinder mill.

While you're at it, List of defunct United States automobile manufacturers

Marking the grave.

As for the fate of the sculpture that was taken down in mid-March?

"It's gone. The piece didn't sell. It was destroyed and sold for scrap," Losh says. "It went the way of the dodo." Just like Pontiac itself.