Oldsmobile Was At the Pumpkin Run

In 1897 Ransom E. Olds started the Olds Motor Vehicle Company. By 1901it became the first "high volume" gasoline engine auto maker when it sold 635 cars. General Motors purchased the company in 1907 but by then Ransom had left the company and started a new auto maker that, because he could no longer use his own name, became known as REO. One of their first successes was a vehicle called the Speed Wagon. Yes, that's where the band got its name. But back to Olds Automobiles. The name was shortened to Oldsmobile and it fit in the GM car for every price point just beneath Buick and above Oakland (which would become Pontiac). They sold well up to and through the muscle car era but in the 1990s sales began to drastically slip due to foreign competition. GM stopped production on the line in 2004 but left a large number of cars for those in the old car hobby. A lot of them showed up at this past season's Pumpkin Run Nationals including a pair of 1950 Deluxe Club Sedans, a Cutlass, a 1968 Cutlass S, a 1968 442, and a Cutlass convertible.