Stewart Jones Motors, St. Petersburg, FL.
Carl E. Filer Co., Studebaker, Greenville, PA.
Dave Lowe Studebaker Motor Sales.
Mansker’s Auto Sales, Studebaker, Lakewood, CA.
Dixie Motors, Shelbyville, TN.
Coggins Studebaker, Charlottesville, VA.
Hodak Motor Sales, Kankakee, IL.
Altamont Motor Co., Altamont, IL.
Western Motors, Pendleton, OR.
The Trading Post is a neat idea… you could imagine it selling Studebaker wagons. The wagon company did have lots of dealers before 1900. Did any of them last as long as the company?
Like the first image of Stewart Jones Motors. The backlit lettering on the roof gives it kind of a deluxe feel for post WWII car dealerships, along with the floor-to-ceiling glass. Those `52 models look just right in that setting!
Interesting ~ some are well funded, one is a _service_station_, wow .
-Nate
It’s something I’ve noticed about the dealership photographs on here, hardly any seem to have a petrol station. Over here up until the late eighties and early nineties it was not at all unusual for a car dealer , mostly new but sometimes second hand, to have a petrol station. I think the idea was a bit of income and getting people onto the premises. In the town where I grew up people tended to buy cars from the Ford & Vauxhall dealers where they filled up. Thinking about it now it was all a bit tribal.
There are some cool photos online, of trucks in front of Dave Lowe’s Trading Post. It seemed to be in Niles, Michigan.
Always impressed by these smaller, more humble dealerships. Where the ownership, and employees, have a strong sense of pride of presentation of their building, property, and in their work.