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Lost Dealerships Project – Goad Motor Company
Presuming that just one Goad family sold General Motors products in Texas, then that family had a remarkable run, remaining in business continuously or near-continuously from the early 1920s through...
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Corte Madera, California, 1968
Long ago, we established that Charles Cushman, provider of so many of our street scenes, owned a red 1938 Ford and a gold 1940 Lincoln Zephyr, two cars that appeared quite often in his photographs. In...
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Pre-War Buick dealership on display at Petersen Museum
Photo courtesy of Bill Anderson Through the efforts of the Buick Heritage Alliance, Los Angeles, California’s, Petersen Automotive Museum recently unveiled a pre-war-style Buick dealership exhibit,...
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Lost Dealerships Project – Lesher-Muirhead Oldsmobile, San Francisco, California
As is the case with most old dealership images we’ve run across lately, this mid-1960s postcard of Lesher-Muirhead Oldsmobile in San Francisco comes to us from Alden Jewell. And like many other...
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Lost Dealerships Project – Import Auto, Long Beach, California
Another great vintage dealership postcard from Alden Jewell, and while we haven’t been able to discover much about Import Auto in Long Beach, California, that Alden hasn’t already provided – the...
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Delaware, Ohio, 1956
Even without hitting up Google Street View, I can attest that this circa 1956 view of South Sandusky Street looking north in Delaware, Ohio, found on PhotOhio.org, hasn’t changed too much over the...
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Them funny furrin’ cars: Los Angeles’s 1958 Imported Car Show
During the 1950s, plenty of foreign car companies decided to take advantage of the prosperous American economy by entering the U.S. car market. Can’t blame them: The rise of the middle class during...
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Save these Packards – Lawrence, Kansas
Photos courtesy KansasAuctions.net At one point, Raymond Barland was one of Lawrence, Kansas’s, respected business owners. A World War II veteran who served in the Army in the South Pacific and who...
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Lost Dealerships Project – Rutland, Vermont’s dealer row
Pretty much since the beginning of the automobile business, there have been dealership rows in pretty much every town across America. Whatever the reason – zoning, ease of comparison shopping, local...
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SIA Flashback – Family Affair: Normandin Chrysler/Plymouth
As opposed to our Lost Dealership Project, in which we try to find out the histories of dealerships that have long since gone out of business, Josiah Work’s profile of Normandin Chrysler/Plymouth for...
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Montclair, New Jersey, 1970s, part 2
Evidence of not one, but two dealerships in the Montclair, New Jersey, area exist in this street scene we found over at the Duke University Libraries Digital Collections. The first, Clairidge Lincoln...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – seat cover display
Automotive dealerships in the Fifties had so many more things to ogle than today’s dealerships – besides the cars, there were printed brochures, cutaway engines and cutaway cars, and purpose-built...
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One-of-14 “Swiss cheese” Pontiac heads to auction
Photos courtesy Russo and Steele. For a few years in the early 1960s, Pontiac fans on the East Coast looked to one dealership in particular to champion the marque in NHRA drag racing. Union Park...
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Honolulu, 1973
Aloha Motors in Honolulu, Hawaii, had a unique racking system to store its inventory on the space-challenged island, as we saw a few years back in one of our Lost Dealership posts. From the Documerica...
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An X for an X: Super Stock AMX returns home in swap for another S/S AMX
Photo courtesy Rick and Paulette Riley. It’s not as though Rick Riley didn’t like his Super Stock AMX, one of 52 such cars specially modified by Hurst for AMC to go drag racing in 1969. It’s just that...
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Lost Dealerships Project – Dick Allen Motors, Inglewood, California
Our friend Eddie Stakes recently shared this excellent shot of Dick Allen Rambler in Inglewood, California, and we thought it’d make for a good opportunity to resurrect our dormant Lost Dealerships...
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Make-A-Wish, dealership restoring 1968 Dodge Charger for Minnesota teenager
Photos courtesy Morrie’s Automotive Group. Matthew Wood didn’t have to think long before answering. In the hospital fighting Hodgkin’s lymphoma, he and his family entertained a visit from Minnesota...
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Montclair, New Jersey, 1970s, part 3
This’ll be the third time we’ve seen the billboards for Montclair, New Jersey-based Clairidge Lincoln-Mercury in street scene photos found on the Duke University Libraries Digital Collections, so one...
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Four-Links – Studebaker Museum visit, De Soto illustrator, Ford dealerships,...
* Mac’s Motor City Garage recently took in the Studebaker National Museum and returned with a sampling of shots. * Automotive history is rich with talented individuals such as Howard Scott, an artist...
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Vintage Clippings: Newspaper Auto Advertising, Part I
All images from the author’s collection Newspapers and other periodicals have carried automobile advertising from the earliest days of the last century. These advertisements were sometimes regional in...
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