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Consider this history the next time you check your Pontiac repair manual or need to take your vehicle in for any kind of auto repair , whether it be from an accident or a worn out part:

At the turn of the previous century, buggy men, producers of horse-drawn vehicles, began a transformation that remains with us today, turning to the production of automobiles. The birth of Pontiac, for instance, came about because of Edward Murphy and Alanson Brush. Murphy founded the Pontiac Buggy Company in Pontiac, Michigan; Brush was an engineering consultant in Detroit who designed the early Cadillacs. The two men met in 1906 , and Brush showed Murphy a design for a two-cylinder car which Cadillac rejected. Murphy bought the idea and called it the Oakland, the same name he gave to his horse-drawn carriages.

The car wasn’t a success at first; after Murphy’s death, though, in 1908, sales began to increase. Another buggy man, known as William C. Durant, purchased Oakland, taking it into his business, General Motors. The Oakland led to the Pontiac, in 1926 , introduced by Oakland’s assistant general manager. The car was a quality six cylinder engine vehicle made to sell for the price of a four cylinder vehicle — and it became an instant success.

Without these early pioneers in car history, without Edward Murphy or William C. Durant, we might not be taking our vehicles in for repair, but instead be going to the market place for a new horse; a task which seems far more formidable than going to the market for a new car.