McDowell Motor Company, Parsons, KS.
Breidford Motor Co., Blaine, WA.
Rockland Motors, Inc., Rockland, MA.
Andy Fick Ford, “House Of Sincere Service”, North Kansas City, MO.
Powell Motors, Inc. Lillington, NC.
VEE Motors Ford, Middletown, NY.
Casco Bay Motors, Yarmouth, ME.
Dave McIntire Ford, Indianapolis, IN.
VEE Motors was in Middletown, NY.
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Finally some dealers from my part of the country! Those Ford boys in Parsons don’t seem to be having much fun, but they’re smiling broadly by Kansas standards. A painful grimace is the neutral Kansas face.
And no need for any of those fancy-shmantzy whitewalls or wheel covers, no siree!
Pioneer Ford was the Ford dealer in Lynden and they actually sold Ford Tractors too at least until the 1990’s. The automobile dealership lasted until the late 2000’s. In the 2010’s that Pioneer Ford building was where the short lived TV show “Carspotting” took place. It now appears to be a RV dealer.
Breidford Motors was in Blaine WA.
Location updated now. Thanks.
Casco Bay Motors:
Needs to spend a few dollars on blacktop for the parking lot.
Possible the dealership dates back to the Model T.
Like how the used cars are prominently displayed in front of the dealership.
If you want to see the new cars, you gotta come into the showroom.
Casco Bay Motors did spend some money on blacktop for their parking lot and a lot of other things too. They are still in business in Yarmouth, Maine.
I took a look on Google maps and the used cars are still parked in front of the showroom. Some things never change!!
By the time I learned about various brands
of car we didnt have a local Ford dealer it became a Simca agency so you had to travel to buy a new Ford and judging by the number of Fords of various models around lots of people did, local garage could would and indeed did fix Fords even the Chevrolet Vauxhall Bedford show where my dad worked had a back shed with bits of Fords in it and that Simca agent ran a Bonus pickup as a shop runabout with a Fordson diesel tractor engine fitted and a little 100E type Thames van,
I learned Ford from dismantling them at a wrecking yard at highschool, dismantling wasnt all that technical powertrains came out and were stashed in a shed bodies were mashed flattish by steel wheeled Fordson tractor and dumped, nobody wanted rusted out bodies and that was all we had.
Wish I had a 1963 picture of the Ford dealership in Macon GA. My Air Force Dad, Base Commander @ Robins Air Force Base, thought he wanted a 1963 Oldsmobile Starfire. But 12 year old me steered him to the Ford dealership to see the new 1963 Ford 500 XL sport back. Little did he know, I wanted a 1963 T-Bird. There on the sales floor was a red 1963 500 XL, and a Heritage Burgundy T-Bird with pearl beige interior. I climbed into the backseat of the T-Bird and would not get out. Dad went to talk to the salesperson. I stayed in the T=Bird for an hour telling anyone looking at the car it was sold. And yes, it was sold to us. That Bird was the car I drove to get my drivers license early 1967. And yes, on my 16th birthday Dad gave me our 1963 T-Bird, the car I picked out at the dealership at age 13.
Wow, you showed em who’s boss, heh?
Beautiful pics! The building architecture of VEE Motors Ford, appears almost too modern for the era. And then current car styling.
“ME” and “NC”, dealers both have “eye catching, converts” displayed!
Rockland Motors was in Rockland Massachusetts. Operated by the Christie family. Bob Christie graduated from RHS with my Dad in 1946. My father was not a Ford guy. My best guess is they lasted into the 1990’s . Scooters are sold at the location now.
I see many dealers back then adhered to the practice of keeping a few competitive makes in the front row.
The used car manager at our Ford dealer always insisted on having a healthy mix of GM cars in the front row. Even if he had to buy them at an auction.
A lot of those auction cars needed work – probably why they were at the auction. We mechanics asked why he persisted in buying GM auction cars that always seemed to require work.
He told us everyone in town knew we sold Fords & Mercurys. He wanted them to think people were trading their GM cars for those Fords & Mercurys. Another reason was the cars needing work usually went cheap. Since the used car department got cut rate shop time, we could usually get the cars in decent enough condition that he could afford to price them very sharp.
Back in the ’60s, used GM cars generally had very good resale value. The difference was most pronounced when comparing a Buick or Olds to a Mercury. Many is the time a salesman would invite a Mercury prospect to look at a Buick or Olds on our lot and compare them to the price of a used Mercury.
It really wasn’t a fair comparison since our manager only kept the best trade-ins and took the less well-kept Mercurys to auction where he of course brought back more GM cars.
I don’t know if it worked, but judging from the photos of other Ford dealers having some front row GM cars, our manager evidently wasn’t the only one who believed this theory.
The Dave McIntyre showroom is interesting in the way 1963 and 1964 models were displayed side by side. As I recall, that one was on W. 38th street.
JP, this dealer was actually at 6100 E. 38th St. right next door to the Miracle Lanes bowling establishment. I know because my father had his 1961 and 1964 Thunderbirds serviced there. My dad purchased both Thunderbirds at Genoa Motors in Genoa, Ohio. Dave McIntire later became Chuck Callahan Ford, (If it’s not a Chuck Callahan Ford price, then you really don’t have a price. RRRRRRRIP! You think about it). Chuck Callahan later became Burd Ford. (haven’t you heard, Burd’s the word). Burd eventually moved out to Pendleton Pike and 56th St. If remember right, Rich Burd committed suicide back in 2009 over financial worries.
I love. These retro pictures from the late 50s and early 60s. I was 10 in 1965, and I was already a mini Gearhead. I knew all the names and models of all the cars made by the US Big Three. I get a real warm feeling inside because I remember all those cars very well. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley California and we had four Ford dealers around the valley. There was Town and Country Ford on Reseda Blvd, San Fernando Motors in San Fernando, Burbank Ford in Burbank, and the top dealer was Ralph Williams Ford in Encino. They were the tops because they advertised on TV all the time. Although my family all drove Chryslers through the 40s, 50s and 60, s, but I turned into a Ford man in my the 60s when the Mustang was introduced. I love everything about our American cars, I only drive vehicles made by the Ford Motor Company. Great article!
Roy O’BRIEN Ford. At 9 mile and Mack. Still in business since 1946. Still use the same jingle song. Stay on the right track to 9 mile and Mack. St Clair Shores Mich.
One thing you don’t see anymore is the type of traffic signal suspended by guy wires over the center of the road in the picture of Powell Motors in Lillington, North Carolina. Today, traffic signals are on arms that are attached to poles that sit at the side of the road. The signal itself is much larger the what it was 60 years ago.