| | USATODAY.com - Last Oldsmobile rolls off line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Oldsmobile, the brand that pioneered chrome-plated trim and gave drivers the Eighty Eight series, the front-wheel-drive Toronado and the Cutlass, was named for its founder, Ransom E. Olds, who started the Olds Motor Vehicle Co. in Lansing in 1897. |
 | | But for those who gathered Thursday at the R.E. Olds Museum to see the last Oldsmobile Alero being moved to the museum and to catch a sneak preview of a "Thanks for the Memories" exhibit that opens Monday to the public, it was a sad day. |
 | | Oldsmobile's presence in Lansing has been fading since GM reorganized in the mid-1980s, and decreased even more when its main office was moved to Detroit in 1998. |
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