Who will be the US "Big 3" in 2016?

Where are all the old Ford Granadas? Fairmonts? Chevy Citations? Chevy Monzas? Plymout Reliants?

There used to be fleets of these things, roaming wild on the expressays of the entire continent. Now... no more...

Back in 1973 - and later, to some extent, a Japanese car was so rare that it was just about a curiosity. I remember the first time I met somebody who owned a Subaru in 1972 or so - it was unique in my experience, not just because it was the first Subaru I'd ever seen but because it was the first Japanese car I'd ever seen. Until that time, I didn't even realize he Japanese made cars (I hadn't seen "You Only Live Twice").

So, how often do we find a '72 Gran Torino still on the road? '77 Chevelle wagon? '69 Ford Country Squire? Performance cars, luxury cars and convertibles tend to keep going longer but the cheap uninteresting junk - and Detroit made lots and lots of cheap uninteresting junk - tends to get, well, junked.

I saw a '79 or '80 Pontiac Sunbird the other day. I'd forgotten these things had even existed and my brother-in-law had owned one and I owned its sibling, the Chevy Monza. There were probably 20 of these things built in '79 for every Crown or whatever Toyota managed to sell into the US that year. I've seen one. Where are the rest?

Vegas?

Cathy

A friend's husband bought a Monza way back when.