# Old cars **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [March 19, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/old-cars/27987 "2009-03-19T15:08:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lugnut1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c89c15/32.png) [@lugnut1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/lugnut1)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/old-cars/27987/1 "2009-03-19T15:08:50Z")
have there ever been cars manufacture by the name moon or star? ---
**Author:** ![steve63](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@steve63](https://community.cartalk.com/u/steve63)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/old-cars/27987/2 "2009-03-19T15:46:41Z")
I don’t think so, but there have been models called Comet, Meteor, Galaxy, Galaxie, Nova, Starliner and Sunliner. Toyota made the Starlet. There’s also Mercury and Saturn. Edit: I remembered some other possibilities. Oldsmobile made the Starfire and the Jetstar and Pontiac made the Star Chief. Is one of these what you were thinking of? ---
**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/old-cars/27987/3 "2009-03-19T20:10:51Z")
It seems to me that I remember hearing about the Star motor car company. This company existed back somewhere between 1908 and 1920. In this time period there were quite a few companies that produced automobiles, or more appropriately, horseless carriages. These companies had no connection with Ford, Chrysler or GM makes. Some of these companies produced very few automobiles and only lasted a couple years. Other companies disappeared during the thirties. Some car manufacturers I remember hearing about from my parents included Jackson, Cole, Brush, Doble (a steam powered car), Stanley (another steam powered car), Baker (an electric car), Maxwell (Jack Benny supposedly drove one on his show). These were independent companies. I’m 67 years old and I remember a lot of cars from independents that are now gone–Graham, Hupp, Willys, Kaiser-Frazer, Packard, Studebaker, Nash, Hudson, Crosley, King Midget. This also happened with televsion receivers. There was the Sparton, Muntz, Hoffman, Setchell-Carlson, Capehart, CBS-Columbia, Traveler, Curtis Mathis, Stewart-Warner. Even bigger manufacturers–Motorola, Sylvania, Zenith, RCA, Westinghouse, Philco have either dropped the TV line or have gone out of business. The same is true with home appliances. Does anyone remember the Gibson refrigerator, the Hamilton, Speed Queen, Norge, Kelvinator or Blackstone washers and dryers? Maybe we are seeing the same thing in the auto industry with the shaky position of GM and Chrysler. There could well have been a Moon car. ---
**Author:** ![GreasyJack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@GreasyJack](https://community.cartalk.com/u/GreasyJack)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/old-cars/27987/4 "2009-03-19T21:07:03Z")
Subaru is also the Japanese name for the Pleiades, which is a cluster of stars. ---
**Author:** ![bscar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bscar/32/34_2.png) [@bscar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bscar)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/old-cars/27987/5 "2009-03-19T22:19:25Z")
> **[Star Motor Company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Motor_Company)** > > The Star Motor Company was a British car and commercial vehicle maker based in Wolverhampton and active from 1898 to 1932. At its peak Star was the UK's sixth largest car manufacturer and produced around 1000 cars a year. Star was founded by the Lisle family who like many other vehicle makers started by making bicycles, in their case in 1893 as Sharratt and Lisle. In 1896 this was changed to the Star Cycle Company. > **[Diamond-Star Motors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond-Star_Motors)** > > Diamond-Star Motors (DSM) was an automobile-manufacturing joint venture between the Chrysler Corporation and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC). The name came from the parent companies' respective logos: three diamonds (Mitsubishi) and a pentastar (Chrysler). Diamond-Star Motors was officially renamed Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America, Inc. (MMMA) in 1995, four years after Mitsubishi took sole control of the plant, and from 2002 to 2016 its official name had been Mitsubishi Motors To th... ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 2:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/old-cars/27987/6 "2009-03-22T02:04:46Z")
and here’s Moon: > **[Moon Motor Car](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Motor_Car)** > > Moon Motor Car Company (1905 - 1930) was an American automobile company that was located in St. Louis, Missouri. The company had a venerable reputation among the buying public, as it was known for fully assembled, easily affordable mid-level cars using high-quality parts. Often this meant the manufacturing process required more human intervention, leading to operating losses. The company was founded by carriage maker Joseph W. Moon. Moon produced both cars and trucks. Moon Motor's peak production...