Vintage Vehicle Club

of Australia (1919-1930) Inc.

Pontiac Vehicles - Horse drawn and Internal Combustion, were built from 1893 to present day..

 

The Pontiac Story (Summary)

  • 1893 - Pontiac Buggy Company established in Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan by Edward M. Murphy.

  • 1907 - Edward M. Murphy decided to create motor car with Oakland Motor Car Company in 1907 and withdrew carriage production.

  • 1909 - General Motors purchases a half interest in Oakland Motor Car Co. on January 20.  When its founder, Edward Murphy, passes away the following summer, his company comes under the full control of General Motors.

  • 1925 - Ben H Anibal, who had been chief engineer for Cadillac, was engaged to design a completely new six-cylinder car.

  • 1926 - The first Pontiac car is introduced by Oakland. The 'Chief of the Sixes,' a 6-cylinder car Series 6-27, is launched at the 1926 New York Auto Show.  It had 110-inch wheelbase and featured a Fisher-designed body with a six-cylinder L-head engine.

  • 1927 - The Series 6-27 produced 127,883 units.

  • 1929 - Pontiac built its 500,000th car

  • 1932 - The Oakland name is dropped and Pontiac Motor Division is established.  B-O-P Sales Company is established, consolidating the wholesale sales forces of Buick, Oldsmobile, and Pontiac.  It is disbanded the following year.

  • 1937 - Pontiac introduces the industry's first column-mounted gearshift.  Linden Division, Linden, NJ, is established to assemble Buicks, Oldsmobiles and Pontiacs closer to the points of sale in the eastern U.S.

  • 1945 - The Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac Assembly Division is organized.  It later becomes General Motors Assembly Division (GMAD) in 1965.

  • 1957 - The Bonneville model, with Pontiac's first fuel injection engine, is introduced.

  • 1967 - Pontiac introduces the Firebird, its third line of cars.

  • 1976 - GM introduces its downsized Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac full-size and luxury cars in September.

  • 1984 - A new organizational structure for GM's North American Passenger Car Operations is formed. Two integrated car groups, Chevrolet, Pontiac, GM of Canada (C-P-C) and Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac (B-O-C), each have complete responsibility for their respective products, including engineering, manufacturing, assembly and marketing.

  • 1988 - GM introduces its 'GM10' family of newly redesigned midsize cars -- the Buick Regal, Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, and Pontiac Grand Prix.

  • 1989 - Four door sedan versions of the 'GM 10' Pontiac Grand Prix and Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme are introduced.  The Pontiac Trans Sport and Oldsmobile Silhouette all-purpose vehicles debut. These models feature the largest plastic panels ever put on any vehicle.

  • 1996 - Pontiac and GMC marketing divisions are merged to form Pontiac-GMC Division.

  • 2001 - Pontiac vehicles celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary.
    General Motors announces that its Ste. Therese, Quebec plant, which builds the Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird, will close in September 2002 in conjunction with discontinuation of the Camaro and Firebird models.

  • 2004 - GM announces plans to produce the sporty Pontiac Solstice roadster, first shown to the world at the 2002 North American International Auto Show, at its Wilmington, Del., assembly plant. The Solstice is to go on sale as a 2006 model year car.

  • General managers: --Oakland Motor Car Company: Pontiac Motor Division: 
    1907-08 Edward M. Murphy 
    1909-10 Lee Dunlap 
    1911-14 George P. Daniels 1951-52 Arnold Lenz 
    1915 Charles W. Nash 
    1916-20 Fred W. Warner 
    1921-23 George H. Hannum 
    1924-30 Alfred R. Glancy 
    1931 Irving J. Reuter 
    1932-33 William S. Knudsen
    1933-51 Harry J. Klinger

If you find fault with any of this information or if you would like to add further to this page, please email vvca_info@hotmail.com

Compiled by: Steve K.

References; Main source: General Motors Corporation

http://www.conceptcarz.com/view/makehistory/121,0/makeHistory.aspx,

http://www.innerauto.com/Pontiac_Parts/Pontiac_Sunbird_Parts/

http://web.telia.com/~u50102742/history.htm.

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