The death of an automotive marque is sad, especially for one that's been a familiar presence for many years. One of the things I look for when I'm walking the rows of a car graveyard is examples of vehicles built during a marque's final model year. Today's Junkyard Treasure is a painful yet significant bit of automotive history: one of the last Pontiacs ever made.
GM hit rough financial waters soon after that, however, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the wake of the Great Recession. GM announced in the spring of 2009 that the Pontiac Division would be discontinued after the 2010 model year, after selling its first cars as 1926 models.Solstice production ceased in May of 2009, followed by the Vibe three months later. That left just the G6 , and the very last G6 rolled off the Orion, Michigan, assembly line in January of 2010.