Hello Kansas City. Welcome back to Bespoke Automotive Refinement Podcast. We are so glad that you joined us tonight.
Today we’re actually experiencing possibly some hail, so Thomas and I have been preparing our cars, making sure that they are put away in the garage. Thomas, if people do ever get hail damage, is there anything that they can do, whether it’s preemptively or beforehand, one thing they can do after to make sure their car is protected? Yeah, so the best way to prevent your car from getting hail damage is to park it in a garage. But what if, like this week, I was out with some friends, we were driving on the highway, and we came across a hail storm.
We’re trying to get under the bridge, but too many people are under the bridge. So what do you do if somebody does get hit with some hail? Can you pop it out? Can you correct it? Can you take scratches? So typically with hail, you can pop them out using PDR techniques. We do not offer that at this time, however, in the near future we do plan on offering PDR repair.
But I will say this, most PDR shops really scratch and damage your paint when popping out these scratches. So wow, that was really a big lightning. So we do paint correction services after the PDR work is complete to ensure that the car looks as good or better than before the damage occurred.
Yeah, that’s good. Kansas City Car Detailing. So today on this Kansas City Car Detailing podcast, we’re going to be talking about 14 defunct car brands and how they failed.
I actually don’t recognize some of these. Some of these I didn’t even know they had gone under. So it’ll be interesting to see.
Maybe you might have some more context to why they did or maybe you’re like, oh, they went under, but they were bought out by XYZ. Number one on the list is a company I’ve never heard of, but it was Studebaker and they started in 1952 and ended in 1966. Yep.
I have worked on several Studebakers before. Studebaker was a, I would say it was a lot like Ford or Chevy. They didn’t make supercars and make sports cars.
Obviously, supercars didn’t exist in the 1930s. They just made regular commuter cars and I don’t know why they went out of business, but my grandfather, actually both my grandfathers owned Studebakers. So it was like owning a Ford or a Chevy, but I don’t really know a lot about the brand.
Next up is one called Oldsmobile or Oldsmobile. Yep. I know Oldsmobile too.
Started in 1867, 1897 and ended in 2004. That’s a long time. Yep.
Oldsmobile was, again, it was, it was a brand like Chevy, like Ford, you know, they didn’t make luxury cars. They were just a consumer brand. I think what made them go under was there was a generation of people that would have been like our grandparents and our great grandparents owned Oldsmobiles.
Okay. And even if you just hear the name, nothing about it sounds enticing. Nope.
And I actually think they went under because of the name, because once like once 90s kids were getting their driver’s license, they’re like, I don’t want to own a car called an Oldsmobile. Yeah. So it just sounds old because it’s in the name.
Yep. So next up we have Packard started in 1899 and ended in 1958. Again, that’s another brand that I know of.
I know people that have owned Packards. I don’t know a whole lot about them, but I definitely recognize the brand. Next up is a company I didn’t know had gone under, but Pontiac.
So they started in 1926 and ended in 2010. Yep. Pontiac failed because they were bought out during 2008.
They were when you know, all of those things happened. Are we still recording? Yep. Okay.
When all of the government buyouts were happening. So General Motors got bailed out by the government. And General Motors had just acquired Pontiac.
And in order for them to maintain it, they had to get rid of one of their likes, like one of their sister brands. And since they had just acquired Pontiac, that was the one they chose. So yeah.
Interesting. Next up is a DeSoto started in 1928 and ended in 1961. So not very super long over 33 years.
I’ve heard of DeSoto. I don’t know a whole lot about them. There’s, you know, all these cars you’ve named off.
I can picture in my mind, like a vehicle at some point that I’ve worked on, or I’ve seen a photo of. You’ve given some sort of can’t see car detailing service to? Yes. I can’t even think of what DeSoto is, I don’t even know what they look like.
Yeah. Heard the name. I don’t remember what they look like.
Not a common one for you. All right. Next up.
A Plymouth started in 1928 and ended in 2001. Yep. Plymouth made some really cool cars.
Plymouth was a lot like Chevrolet or Ford. You know, they, they made some really, I mean, they made regular cars, right. And they also made really cool stuff.
So like, you know, the Plymouth, the Plymouth Superbird is like a $5 million car now. And, you know, the Plymouth Roadrunner and the Plymouth Satellite, those were all cars that, I mean, old muscle cars, they were, they were a parent company to Dodge. Okay.
So it would be like what Ford is to Mercury or what Chevy is to Cadillac. Okay. So very cool.
All right. Next up we have Mercury started in 1938 and ended in 2011. Now something you’ll see a lot with some of these later ones, like there were like four major companies that ended in 2010, 2011.
That was a common one. Absolutely. And I think a lot of that had to do with all of the stuff that happened in 2008.
You know, a lot of great brands that just couldn’t survive, couldn’t survive through it. So, yeah, but I have done a lot of Kansas City car detailing services on Mercury’s and in fact, one of the cars that I worked on that has traveled all over the world for shows was a Mercury 8. So. Okay, cool.
Oh yeah, that’s right. Next up we have Tucker Corporation. I don’t know what that one is, but it was only a six-year company, 1944 to 1950.
I don’t know anything about Tucker. I’ve heard of them. Just one of those deals.
I can’t, I can’t think of a car. Can’t, can’t, I can’t picture a vehicle to that name. That makes sense.
Yep. Next up, this one is even shorter. Kaiser Frazier was only from 1945 to 1951.
It’s not very long. You know, I actually have heard of that brand. Yep.
So if somebody’s wanting to get a hold of you and learn more about what you do, but also get the opportunity to talk to you about cars, how would they do so? The best way to get a hold of me is contact me at 620-282-0402 if you’re wanting to book a Kansas City Car Detail. You can also go online to BespokeRefinement.com. You can check out a list of all of our different options that we offer for Kansas City Car Detailing. And you can also check out a list of all of the different vehicles that have utilized our Kansas City Car Detailing services in our photo gallery.