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Originally Posted by MackSteelPrivateEye
My 90s era Pontiac was tight as a drum with perfect interior when I got rid of it with almost 160k miles in 2011. My father only purchased GM Oldmobiles so we gre up in Olds. Never had rattles or interiors coming apart, And we are talking late 50s 60s and 70s. One exception we had a 55 Olds 88 and my brother and I were wore the back seat out when we were tots. Back in the days when no seat belts and no safety seats. Tho good old days.
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Oh there’s no question GM’s interiors were top notch, pretty much from the Harley Earl days through the early 70s. Then GM learned the fine art of cost cutting, learned how to mold plastic in vast expanses using a cost effective formula that resulted in hard surfaces and poor fitment/gaps, and the line workers lost the pride in their jobs and started slapping stuff together.
GM interiors until the late 90s could be decent or really awful. But around ‘95-96 they brought out the vast expanses of either monotone gray or monotone tan and no cohesion. They were some of the worst interiors ever. Not from a subjective standpoint but objectively - the mold seams where the plastic oozes between the forms were everywhere.