Oldsmobile

Grandpa wasn't in the car, thank God, because it'd have crushed him flat.

He was sure heartbroken, though, never bought another Oldsmobile again.

So November 1978, and my family was coming back to Houston from Laredo.

There's a few ways to make the trip, and since we'd come this way before, we thought it might be fun to change it up a bit.

Okay.

But there were 80s and 90s Oldsmobiles, later Cutlasses and the Cutlass Supremes.

Let me ask it how many, because the mid-80s Cutlass Supremes were rear-wheel drive and you could...

You could stick some fucking mammoth motors in there.

Now, two days earlier, Donna's uncle, Ralph, had died, and the family was still suffering from the grief, and Donna wanted an uplifting evening to distract her, so the two of them got dressed up and drove out to Peach树's, which was a discotheque in New Rochelle, and they came back at about 1:10 on the morning of July 29th, 1976.

Now, Jodi double parked her Oldsmobile outside Donna's building in Pelham Bay, and they sat there talking about their night.

And a yellow compact nobody recognized had been up and down that street for hours.

And Donna pushed her door open to go inside and then saw a man coming at the car with a paper bag.

I don't know.

Instead of a slant nose that's got like a big fucking Oldsmobile chrome, like, grill.

[laughs]

Yeah, yeah.

So on September the 16th, 1908, William Billy Durant created a new corporation.

It began with Buick, then came Oldsmobile, Cadillac, and more than 20 other companies and suppliers that he acquired in less than 16 months.

The man who made his fortune building horse-drawn carriages created the company that would help put America on the road to the future.

General Motors found it on this day, September the 16th, You know, Billy Durant understood something that has defined America from the beginning.

So on September the 16th, 1908, William Billy Durant created a new corporation.

It began with Buick, then came Oldsmobile, Cadillac, and more than 20 other companies and suppliers that he acquired in less than 16 months.

The man who made his fortune building horse-drawn carriages created the company that would help put America on the road to the future.

General Motors founded on this day, September the 16th, You know, Billy Durant understood something that has defined America from the beginning.

Yeah.

I got a 92 Oldsmobile station wagon.

We're going to get

to the, I called it a Model T, and Matt told me how wrong I was.

But no, I didn't.

But when she said no the first time, I was driving a 1966 Oldsmobile.

Really ugly green.

It was a land yacht.