Vintage dealerships

This photo was taken on May 21, 1951 of Metropolitan Chevrolet’s newly opened used car sale lot located at Fourth Street and Capitol Avenue in Springfield, Illinois. It went into operation a year after the post–World War II economic expansion began in 1950 in response to the record new car sales of five-hundred units a month at the main Dealership located at 413 South 4th St. in the City. Learn more about the story and see another version of the photo at the State Union-Register.


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This image was taken for use in a television ad by WBAP-TV in Fort Worth, TX, for Pleasant Grove Chrysler-Plymouth-Valiant, located on the southeast side of Dallas TX. The photo of the dealership contains the new 1962 model year cars in stock. Business must have been brisk at Pleasant Grove because sign lettering on the left front window states that the business’ used car lot had been moved to another location.


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This photo, dating to June 24, 1955, contains C.B. Smith’s Dodge Truck agency and used car lot located somewhere in the Austin, TX area. Smith also operated a Dodge and Plymouth dealership located at 805 West 5th St. in Austin which accounts for all of the Chrysler Products Corporation used cars in the inventory.

These photographs are courtesy of The Portal to Texas History.

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In an effort to help its dealers suffering from the lingering effects of the Great Depression, the Ford Motor Company initiated a new “Renewed and Guaranteed” sales program in March of 1936 to assist its dealers with selling their used car inventory. The image featured here today shows the adoption of the sales campaign by the Baker Motor Company of Salt Lake City, Utah.

This photo courtesy of The Henry Ford contains Baker’s used car sales operation on the evening of May 5, 1937. It was separated from the Dealer’s new car showroom and service garage located at 279 East 300 South in another section of the City.

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If you could get a new car at that price, imagine the personal devestation of losing a nickel through a hole in one's trousers

 

That's true.
Different times.

 

Clark Edsel Sales Inc. located at 130 Valley Street, Lawrence, Massachusetts.

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