Photos: When GM's designs ruled the road

We leave you with the 1967 Pontiac Firebird--a production model, unlike the concept Firebirds from the 1950s. Where the GM of 2009 is selling off its relatively recent Hummer brand to a Chinese company and Saturn to the Penske Automotive Group, it is planning to simply discontinue the venerable Pontiac brand by the end of 2010.

Photo by © GM Corp.

Caption by Jonathan Skillings