North Country Motors, Studebaker, Imports, Great Neck, NY.
Manor Motors Inc., Great Neck, NY.
Warren Proctor Co. Studebaker, Louisville, KY.
Barney’s Studebaker Service, Escondido, CA.
Auto Mart, Studebaker-Packard-English Ford, Santa Rosa, CA.
Frank Stilwell Studebaker, Anaheim, CA.
Adam Motor, Studebaker, Mercedes-Benz, DKW, Pennsauken, NJ.
Lovely look into yesterday .
No Frost & French, the Studebaker dealer in Los Angeles that lasted well into the 1970’s…
-Nate
There’s a rare Simca hardtop coupe at Warren Proctor’s used car lots.
The Adam Motor Co. Studebaker-Mercedes dealer reminds me of one of our neighbors in Iowa City. They were from Germany (recruited after WW2), he was the head of the university hydraulics institute. He drove a M-B 220SE and she drove a ’64 Studebaker Daytona coupe. Studebaker (and Chrysler) were seen in a good light by engineering-types, and not as incompatible in the same showroom as might be imagined. Of course that depended on the location; not so much so in a small town in Nebraska or such.
What was the appeal of Studebakers for the engineering crowd? That they were dull? 🙂
Some years ago, possibly with info from CC, I found the location of a former Studebaker dealer in Henderson NV, a suburb of Vegas. It’s now a body shop, but every time I drive by there I can’t unsee the Studebaker sign.
What’s the little red car at the far left end of the Auto Mart lot ?
English Ford.
I keep forgetting about that short tie-up with DKW. If ever there would have been a hard sell to people willing to come to a Stude dealer, the DKW would have been it.
DKW was probably a hard sell anywhere. I remember seeing a couple of them at the Studie dealer in Manhattan, but never saw them on the street. Manhattan was a college town with lots of engineer types, so it had lots of offbeat Euro cars, but even the engineers didn’t want a DKW.
A few trade-ins to probably save on fuel & maintenance costs. Notably Caddy, Buick, and Chrysler.
Barney’s Studebaker Service, Escondido, CA:
Note the price of gas at 30.9 cents regular. The sign on the dealer showroom glass wall indicates the year as 1957.
Using the CPI calculator, that would translate to $3.60 a gallon. In my area (NOLA), the average is just under $3.00. In California, I would image its way north of $4 per gallon.
Maybe Studebaker truly understood the importance of fuel economy which was overlooked by the Big Three at the time.
“Great Neck NY” had two “Stude”, dealers?