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The Oakland was a brand of automobile manufactured between 1907 1909 by the Oakland Motor Car Company of Pontiac, Michigan and between 1909 and 1931 by the Oakland Motors Division of General
Motors Corporation. Oakland's principle founder was Edward P.
Murphy, who sold half the company to GM in January 1909; when Murphy
died in the summer of 1909, GM acquired the remaining rights to Oakland.
The 1927 Oakland All-American Six sedan was a moderately priced,
mass-produced luxury car. Its fine body work, luxury accessories, and
styling accents distinguished it from lower-priced sedans. These
features reflected middle-class motorists' desire for greater
sophistication and General Motors' focus on the sales appeal of
artistically designed, comfortable, closed-body cars. In
the 1920s, General Motors introduced a marketing strategy that featured
many makes and models with graduated prices and levels of quality. This
strategy enticed motorists to “step up” to the next level of price
and luxury when their means allowed. Oakland was placed between
Oldsmobile and Buick in price, quality, and body details. GM
discontinued the Oakland line in 1931, during the Depression, because of
declining sales and the popularity of other GM cars, including one of
Oakland’s own products, the Pontiac
The photos below were scanned from some old negatives that my
Mom and Dad had in a shoe box. Below my Dad talks to me about the photos in detail. Photos from the 1960's.
Dad and my two older brothers with my aunt Elizabeth. The race car is a 1934 Ford Tudor, chopped and channeled with a Olds Rocket 88 V eight engine. Notice that the V8 only had three exhaust port outlets on each head. It originally had six carbs when we traded for it but we took off the two center ones because we thought it was getting too much fuel but later discovered the carbs were not adjusted correctly and used all six. The carbs are Stromberg 97's. The car also had a few different paint jobs and modifications over the period of time we had it. The 34 Ford was classified in the "A" gas class in the early sixties when we were racing it. If I remember we were in the low 10's at 126 MPH. in quarter mile. Dad was racing cars about the same time I was born, back in the 1960's. When I was a teenager I remember Dad telling me that one of the places he use to race was in Kissimmee Florida at the old airport. Don Garlits and a few other well known drivers use to race at the same airport. Dad eventually had to give up the racing, couldn't afford it with trying to raise three kids.
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