The Oakland Motor Car Company is one of the GM (General Motors) entries the open record knows by name and by date — in 1907, and by little else. That is not nothing: a name in the catalogue is where a car's story starts to be recoverable.
How it came about
The Oakland Motor Car Company was an American automobile manufacturer and later division of General Motors in operation from 1907 to 1931. Located in Pontiac, Michigan, it was purchased by General Motors in 1909 and continued to produce modestly priced automobiles until 1931 when the brand was dropped in favor of the division's Pontiac brand.
Family and rivals
On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Ford Model T, the Oldsmobile Model A, the Daihatsu Daihatsu. Its GM (General Motors) stablemates include the 1955 Chevrolet and the 1957 Chevrolet.
The money
There is no federal ownership record for the Oakland Motor Car Company — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.