Morelli-Hoskins Ford, Coatesville, PA.
Fette Ford, Clifton, NJ.
Hagin & Koplin Ford, Newark, NJ.
Meindl Motor, Ford-Lincoln-Mercury, Montpelier, OH.
Jack Loftus Ford, Hinsdale, IL.
Power Ford, Chicago, IL.
Young Ford, Charlotte, NC.
Mel Burns, Ford-Shelby American, Long Beach, CA.
Owen Ford Sales, Vineland, NJ.
Jack Stewart Ford, Chicago, IL.
Joe Madden Ford, Downers Grove, IL.
Country Ford Limited, Levittown, Long Island, NY.
Hysen-Johnson Ford, San Luis Obispo, CA.
Orange Motors, Newburg, NY.
McInerney Ford, Orlando, FL.
Thank you Rich for the New Jersey dealer post cards! Fette is still around.
No Towson Ford postcard? Pity.
Ya, Dad bought 2 cars there, out of 8 Fords he/we had… be fun to see it again, think it’s gone now?
My old Towsontowne Jr High behind it is gone too. 🙁
I’ve been hoping to see one too. I worked there as a car jockey.
Here’s a rather crappy photo:
I’ve been hoping to see one too. I worked there as a car jockey.
Here’s a rather fuzzy photo:
Fette Ford, Clifton, NJ.
Having a tow truck parked in front of the showroom does not strike me as a brilliant marketing strategy.
If you look at the Mel Burns Ford Cobra picture and enlarge it you can see the reflection of a AC Cobra parked on the street.Really cool!
And it looks like a GT-350 on the showroom floor.
Awesome stuff!
Or maybe an Austin Healy 3000??
Like the “Pinto” in San Luis Obispo”. The yellow, “Torino” as well.
Two from San Diego that I am familiar with having lived there from 68-81. This one a tad older.
From the 50’s
Country Ford in Levittown, NY. I’m not good at dating Ford trucks, but I’m guessing around ’67-’70?
Levittown was the first “mass-produced suburb”, according to Wikipedia, and as a suburb of NYC, it was a bit jarring to me to see a front line full of pickups and medium-duty Fords. Folks in the NYC suburbs at the time (and I was one of them) would not consider a truck as a personal vehicle. But as one went further east on Long Island, there were still plenty of farms to be seen – plucked off one-by-one as the suburbs moved further east. Google tells me there are still 600+ working farms on Long Island today.
Those pickups are ’72 models.
Mel Burns….have to wonder how many factory Hi Performance parts crossed that parts counter…
Holy Guacamole! 🥑 A picture of Jack Loftus Ford! My eldest brother worked there as a service tech in the 1970s.
As for Joe Madden, the dealership closed in the 2010s. Packey Webb and Fair Oaks are the two big Ford dealers on Ogden Ave. Webb in Downers Grove, Fair Oaks in Naperville.
Wild trip down memory lane.
Loftus placed the order desks in front of the display cars. They were taking the salesman’s rule seriously. Always Be Closing!
Some customers might have disliked the idea of negotiating in the spotight.
Given most dealers were designing and styling their own dealerships, without corporate guidance, most look very impressive. Inviting, and well organized.
I particularly like the clean and elegant design of Hysen-Johnson Ford, in San Luis Obispo.
Before the hot selling Fairmont and Zephyr were launched, and two years before the Mustang and downsized LTD. Dealers like McInerney Ford, placing 11mpg LTD coupes, and LTD IIs, in their front rows. Sad!
Not to mention not bothering to put the wheel covers on for the postcard shoot.
Orange Ford in Newburgh NY…I can still remember their radio commercials. What color Orange Ford do you want?
Orange Ford in Newburg stayed in business until 1980. The building is still there; now used as general retail and services, though unfortunately the top portion of the brick sign structure has been removed.
Then-and-now and Google StreetView link:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/8NmSPfmN4ULkYBaf9
What bugs me about this dealership is that there was orange Ford in Albany and they used that same commercial
Newburgh is in Orange County and Albany was originally called Fort Orange in 1624. Possibly they had the same owner.
Fun fact: Orange County in Vermont has exactly one traffic light.
Lovely pictures all .
-Nate
I worked at McInerney Ford in the early 90’s
I don’t recall those modernist Ford showrooms with the gold frieze, just blue and white. A short-lived prototype? But I definitely remember those shallow gabled buildings like the one in the background of the Young Ford card. Don Yenko’s Chevy dealership down the road from me was one of those.
And the Southlands model of a small showroom surrounded by a wide porch is both cool and bewildering to this Northeasterner.