Pontiac

A prosecution application that he be asked to forfeit the Pontiac Firebird was not granted.

Bedroom was there, kitchen there, living room, and then on to the driveway and his destroyed cars, including the Corvette, valued at $45,000, and the Pontiac, worth about $20,000.

The front section alone that day had two dozen full-page ads for then-mighty brands that would all be gone in little more than a decade: Robinsons-May, Circuit City, the Good Guys, Pontiac.

Many others — painters of Pontiacs, drugstore facades or gumball machines — were dismissed as frivolous.

In 1961, he became chief engineer at GM’s Pontiac division and introduced two popular “muscle cars,” the GTO and the Firebird.