Pontiac was the name of a rebellious Indian Chief who gave his name to the Michigan city of Pontiac and where the Oakland company started making cars in 1907. In 1909 William C Durant collected Oakland for his burgeoning General Motors business and in 1926 created the 'Pontiac' brand as a companion to Oakland, but in 1932 the 'Oakland' brand was dropped. The Pontiac brand was marketed one notch above Chevrolet, but in fact the cars were very similar underneath, however Pontiac did achieve a good reputation for its six cylinder engine and followed this up by becoming the cheapest car to offer an inline eight cylinder engine. In 1935 Frank Hershey gave Pontiacs 5 chrome strips the ran down the centreline of the bonnet and also the boot (trunk) known as Silver Streaks to give the brand some distinction; these continued for almost 20 years. Pontiac went for one-piece windscreens in 1953, and gained their first V8 in 1955. Pontiac continued to run alongside developments in other GM brands, such as launching its own Firebird version of the sibling Chevrolet Camaro, as well as its own muscle cars. But in 2010 a struggling GM culled the 'Pontiac' brand.