What automobile brands did you or close family own or drive a vehicle that the manufacturer in no longer in business

It can be Cars, Trucks, Tractors, Construction Equipment of anything you drive that the company is now long gone

For me

Within my entire family owns a Packard, Minneapolis Moline, AMC, International, Allis Chalmers, White and Buffalo Pitts

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Heartlander Best Comment

I once had a 1953 MG Midget, also a Mercury Comet. Is Mercury still around? I just checked MG and it IS still around, as a popular Chinese automaker.

HumanEarth · F

No way MG is still around. I thought they were long gone as well. Wow

Heartlander

@HumanEarth I thought so too, but after a few handoffs the brand found its way into China's hands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_Motor

Will they try to market it in the US ... or the UK???

fun4us2b · M

@Heartlander I always admired MGs and the Triumph Spitfire

Orca4950 · 70-79, M

@Heartlander in the 60's I drove a black Mercury Comet. Great car. After the 2008 collapse of the automobile industry, Ford dropped the Mercury brand

HumanEarth · F

Make my move easier. I used to have a 1959 Ford Fairlane Galaxy that was black and red

Heartlander

@Orca4950 Small world. I had a 1964 Comet. Green. Sod it in 1969 for peanuts when an electrical short fried the main main wire harness.

Orca4950 · 70-79, M

@Heartlander mercury brand of automobiles ceased with the 2008 crisis when Ford, GM and Chrysler dropped several brands. As a teenager the family had a mercury comet, which was fun to drive.

Heartlander

@Orca4950 As I remember, that Comet cost about $1,400 new. A few years later, in 1969 bought a Mercury Cougar for like $3,200. The Cougar was basically a fancy Ford Mustang. Cars were much cheaper then, even cheaper relative to income. The downside was that they didn’t last very long by today’s standard.