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...Pontiac is not only the biggest selling straight eight in the U. S. but also the fourth in volume in all classes. It, too, had all GM improvements and slicker lines...
...this growing ascendancy of the Big Three depended largely on the sale of more cheap cars, that was not the whole story. Cadillac and Lincoln, like other high priced cars, found their sales still shrinking, but in the middle and lower middle price brackets the big companies made progress. Pontiac and Oldsmobile as well as Chevrolet, Dodge and Chrysler as well as Plymouth, got a share, if a smaller one, of the comeback...
...year ago, De Soto dealers 238%. Packard sales for September were at the highest monthly level in more than two years. Hupp reported a production gain for the fifth consecutive month. General Motors reported that Buick's September sales were 1,400 units above the previous year, Pontiac's 5,000, Chevrolet's 38,000. Combining the Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac sales organizations had not only bolstered dealers but increased those cars' percentage of the business in their price classes as follows: Buick, from 38% to 60%; Oldsmobile, 14.6% to 27.3% ; Pontiac...
...Plans were made last week to move most of the White House office staff to Poughkeepsie, N. Y. for August when President Roosevelt takes the rest of his vacation at nearby Hyde Park. Around his estate the President will drive not a General Motors' Pontiac roadster, as reported, but a Chrysler-built De Soto. A "special job," this roadster was so contrived that it may be entirely operated by hand. Before his election Mr. Roosevelt had a Ford roadster equipped with hand gadgets for brake and clutch...
...General Motors built for and last week delivered to President Roosevelt a Pontiac roadster entirely operable by hand, which will carry the President about his Hyde Park estate when he goes there the end of this month...