In 1909, Edward Murphy (founder of Pontiac Buggy Co.) founded the Oakland Motor Company. He began producing vehicles straight away, first the Oakland Four and later the Oakland Six. However, on the other side of the continent, William Durant had founded General Motors around the same time, to act as a holding agency for Buick. GM slowly grew, absorbing as many smaller companies as it could to form what would become one of the most epic, and eventually one of the most hated, conglomerate companies of all time. It was in 1910 that GM bought out OMC and they produced the same cars under the same names until...

The Birth of Pontiac

In 1926, the first car ever produced under the Pontiac name rolled off the assembly line. Designed as a sister car to the Oakland, this car unknowingly formed what would be one of the greatest automotive dynasties the world had ever seen.

It wasn't until the 60s that Pontiac really began to take shape. The 1959 "Wide Track" line, the 1962 Grand Prix luxury saloon and the 1964 GTO that started the muscle car craze. All the way to the 1967 Firebird, one of Pontiac's most iconic cars, which gave us the '69 Trans Am (the car that started it all). The '69 Trans Am lead us to the classic 1980 Brown and Gold that we all fell in love with and eventually the 1982 run, that stayed the same until 92, when we got the final generation of the Firebird. Unfortunately, it only lasted until 2010 (although many would say that Pontiac died when they stopped producing the Firebird and the Trans Am).