Here is a professional image from my Dad's files of the 1965 Chicago Auto Show at McCormick Place on Lake Michigan. It is really filled with automotive dreamboats ..... both real and "concepts".
Oh boy, what a beautiful 1964 Chevrolet Impala ! Since Dodge was one of my Dad's clients, we ended up with a Dodge Custom 880 wagon like that one shown in the photograph ......and possibly that exact same station wagon. It had a 383 V-8 engine.
Mike this is a great image, not only for the cars, but display units, overhead lighting and everything. As you study your father's files, you really should be thinking of how best to package it all into a story and heavy, glossy book. People love this paraphernalia of bygone and more exciting times and are happy to pay handsomely for it. Thames & Hudson, Abrams and the like.
Some times you do not realize either the interest or perhaps importance of what you see or have photographs of until much later .......... if even then.
Here is a professional image from my Dad's files of the 1965 Chicago Auto Show at McCormick Place on Lake Michigan. It is really filled with automotive dreamboats ..... both real and "concepts".
Bob Jackson. Found a better photo of my 1964 Chevrolet Impala 2-door hardtop. Silver Blue, Blue interior, 283 V8, Powerglide, PS & PB. push button radio, white walls, blue seat belts, tinted windshield, wheel covers and padded dash. $3.345.00. plus license fee $4.00, tax 87.98. Total $3,437. 48. Trade in a 1958 Ford Skyliner Retractable $1,146.00. The order sheet is also attached but very hard to read. Traded the 1964 for a 1969 Impala 4-door hardtop.
Thanks for the great shot of the '65 Chicago Dream Car Show. Reminds me of how General Motors used to take their "Mortorama's" around the country back in the 1960's. A nice memory from your Dad with your photo!
You asked about the retractable. 1958 with an Interceptor V8, four-barrel carburetor, automatic transmission. I fell in love the idea of a retractable roof and had to have one. Traded in my 1956 Bel-Air convertible. The Chevy was a stick with a 225 horsepower dual 4 barrel engine (see attached photo). The Ford turned out to be a disaster. I’ll bet it starting rusting before it left the showroom. I didn’t put the top done for the last two years I owned it because the floor of the trunk was so rusty I was afraid it would collapse. The first place I noticed rusting was the top of the front fenders just back of the headlights. Next was the rocker panels, rear fenders beyond the wheel opening and on and on. I’m sure Northern Illinois winter weather with salt on the roads didn’t help. The photo I posted of the retractable was not my car. I saw this car, which was identical to mine, at a car show. Mine was so rusty in wasn’t worth a photo. The only reason I kept the Ford so many years is that we married in 1961 and there were other priorities ahead of a different car. Side note to all this………in 1989 I bought my first foreign car, a Honda Prelude. Lots of cars since then, all Hondas, Toyotas and BMWs. Everyone great cars, no rust, no problems. Current cars, a 2004 BMW 325ci Coupe and a 2014 Lexus ES350.
