# Production cars with no known surviving examples

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 9, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/production-cars-with-no-known-surviving-examples/855308 "2020-06-09T18:12:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/production-cars-with-no-known-surviving-examples/855308/101 "2020-07-15T06:12:10Z")

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There were loads of short-lived car manufacturers early on. I remember when old-timers would talk about how there were a half-dozen car companies in Anderson, Indiana. Rider-Lewis, Lambert friction-drive, Nyeberg, and Madison (most of the factory building is still there in disrepair) are four I could Google up quickly. The odds there being any surviving examples are quite slim.

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**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/production-cars-with-no-known-surviving-examples/855308/102 "2020-07-15T14:41:00Z")

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A friends’s father drove a Pontiac LeMans, probably about a 1990 model year. Even back then, they were uncommon and I haven’t seen one in decades. Looks like they were Daewoo imports.

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