# RIP, geezermobiles **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 3, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852 "2012-12-03T15:19:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/1 "2012-12-03T15:19:06Z")
The last of the stereotypical “geezermobiles” is finally rolling into the nursing home. Ford Motor Co. is beginning a (long-overdue) [relaunch of it’s Lincoln brand.](http://www.freep.com/article/20121203/BUSINESS01/312030046/Lincoln-going-back-its-roots-its-original-name) General Motors and Chrysler realized several years ago that they need to market their luxury cars to somebody other than 93-year-old grandmothers. Looks like Ford finally got the memo. I think the new design in that article looks pretty sharp. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/2 "2012-12-03T15:32:39Z")
I still don’t think I’d ever buy a Lincoln or a Buick or a Oldsmobile, all cars that are thoroughly cemented in my head as Old People cars. Then again there’s only a handful of American cars I’d buy in the first place, at least until they are as reliable in the long term as my little Honda. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/3 "2012-12-03T16:56:28Z")
When my parents died, I inherited their “geezer” Grand Marquis. I have to admit, it is an amazingly comfortable car that seats 5 people quite nicely and is a smooth ride with a nice kick in speed when I floor it. It would most certainly not have been something I would have bought, but now that I have it, I don’t care who laughs or makes snide comments - it is like having a comfortable sofa with wheels and I will drive it until it falls apart. And I even buy the “white wall” tires to keep it in perfect geezer shape. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/4 "2012-12-03T17:15:43Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I still don’t think I’d ever buy a Lincoln or a Buick or a Oldsmobile, all cars that are thoroughly cemented in my head as Old People cars. > > Then again there’s only a handful of American cars I’d buy in the first place, at least until they are as reliable in the long term as my little Honda. Oldsmobile? They discontinued the Oldsmobile brand 8 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/5 "2012-12-03T17:20:12Z")
Oh, I had no idea. I still see them tooling around town. Admittedly I haven’t looked too closely into it, seeing as how I had no intention and no interest! ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/6 "2012-12-03T17:47:55Z")
I like American full-size sedans. I’ll never buy anything else. I’m not a geezer (I’m 35, bought my first Crown Victoria when I was 25). ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/7 "2012-12-03T17:48:59Z")
OK, who else opened this thinking “Oh no! And I don’t even remember anything **geezermobiles** posted!”? Bonus points if you thought “Oh no! I always enjoyed **geezermobiles** ’ posts!” ---
**Author:** ![tallcoldone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@tallcoldone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tallcoldone)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/8 "2012-12-03T19:13:02Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I like American full-size sedans. I’ll never buy anything else. I’m not a geezer (I’m 35, bought my first Crown Victoria when I was 25). Geezer is not an age, it’s a state of mind. [hitches up pants far above waist] Now get off my lawn! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/9 "2012-12-03T19:17:53Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > OK, who else opened this thinking “Oh no! And I don’t even remember anything **geezermobiles** posted!”? > > Bonus points if you thought “Oh no! I always enjoyed **geezermobiles** ’ posts!” Ha, for a split second I thought, “There was a geezermobiles here?” The very next split second I realized, “Oh, this must be about Chrysler.” I could live to be 100 and would still never be old and geezerly enough to want one of those cars. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/10 "2012-12-03T19:21:28Z")
We call them “gruntmobiles” since they’re usually driven by a Granny Grunt. Yes, Olds bit the dust several years back. Our fabled Lansing Lugnuts no longer play in Oldsmobile Park, but in Cooley Law School Stadium. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/11 "2012-12-03T20:36:22Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > Ford Motor Co. is beginning a (long-overdue) [relaunch of it’s Lincoln brand.](http://www.freep.com/article/20121203/BUSINESS01/312030046/Lincoln-going-back-its-roots-its-original-name) Eighty-year-old Leroy Brown, who drives a custom Continental and an Eldorado too, and still carries scars from that nasty scrap 40 years ago, will _not_ be happy about this. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/12 "2012-12-03T20:56:36Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > OK, who else opened this thinking “Oh no! And I don’t even remember anything **geezermobiles** posted!”? > > Bonus points if you thought “Oh no! I always enjoyed **geezermobiles** ’ posts!” I don’t get the bonus points, but I did think, “Oh shit, do I know geezermobiles?!” ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/13 "2012-12-03T21:02:24Z")
Awe, Jeez. First **geezermobiles** , and then [**Bazooka Joe**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=674046). This place just won’t be the same without them. I hear **Blackberry** is also on life support ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/14 "2012-12-03T22:01:57Z")
> [@tallcoldone](#): > > Geezer is not an age, it’s a state of mind. [hitches up pants far above waist] Now get off my lawn! 😉 Apparently so. My wife has been mocking me for a solid month after I told a bunch of obnoxious ghetto teenagers to literally get off my lawn late on Halloween (like 10 pm) because they were carrying on and about to wake the baby up. I’m a fan- I had a 1987 Crown Vic for several years in the late 1990s, and while complicated (it had some sort of totally vacuum controlled climate control system and some kind of air shocks), it was a generally reliable and definitely comfortable ride. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/15 "2012-12-03T22:19:13Z")
What exactly is a geezermobile? All the geezers I see around here are driving Camrys and Accords or even a Lexus or two. Hell, I even saw a Buick without a handicapped plate the other day. Sadly, I miss the rear wheel drive V8 cars that had back seats big enough for two so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![Zulema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/db5fbb/32.png) [@Zulema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulema)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/16 "2012-12-03T22:29:08Z")
We have a 2001 Lincoln Continental that we bought three years ago for $4,000. Yep, at a time when you could hardly find a smaller kid car for under $3,000 we bought a luxury, leather seated, brand new looking, geezer car. That thing is so comfortable and drives so nice we’re never looking back. Pretty good mileage on the higway too. It’s going to be used luxury cars for us from now on, they depreciate like crazy. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/17 "2012-12-03T22:56:12Z")
Around here they’re called “widow wagons.” Little old ladies always bought them with the life insurance money. What will they drive now! ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/18 "2012-12-03T23:01:26Z")
Just drive a hearse and save your family the trouble of renting one, since you’re about 30 seconds away from death anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/19 "2012-12-04T00:43:27Z")
Crown Vics always = cop cars for me. > [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Ha, for a split second I thought, “There was a geezermobiles here?” The very next split second I realized, “Oh, this must be about Chrysler.” I could live to be 100 and would still never be old and geezerly enough to want one of those cars. My dad’s company car is a Chrysler 300 – it’s pretty sweet. I went to high school with a kid who drove a hearse to school. ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852/20 "2012-12-04T01:23:51Z")
I have always been amused at the utter terribleness of the brand name “Oldsmobile.” I can’t believe GM kept it around as long as they did. The instant they started making cars that actually catered towards “olds”, they were done for. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-geezermobiles/642852.md?page=2)