Dealer Information Searches

[John W.]

You will probably have more luck with your search if you will put the dealer name, location and year of your car in the title of your message. If you don't have that you should use the Zone and Dealer number in the title.

This will help those who are interested in helping to identify the dealers in their area without opening every post.

[Randy C.]

Re: Dealer Information Searches

Here's something else I tried and it worked for me, not with my Corvette but with a '68 4-4-2 I have. I knew the 4-4-2 was delivered to Wenatchee, WA, but I didn't know the name of the dealer. Wenatchee is only 3.5 hours away from where I live so I took a Saturday and went there to the local libarary. In just asking a few questions to the librarian, she took me into the bowels of the library to their microfiche section. They had every local newspaper back into the 19teens on microfiche and they just let me have at it. It took me just 10 minutes or so to figure out how the microfiche worked - you can even print pages, or parts of pages in the newspaper (or anything they have on microfiche), off of the microfiche machine. I was also looking for info on a local parade that might have included the 4-4-2 since it was a convertible but all the pictures of the parade were of floats and bands - no cars so no luck there. However, in the auto classifieds I found the dealership I was looking for, along with its address and all the salesmen that worked there at the time.

Another source that helped me at the Wenatchee library was their business directories - an annual publication of all the businesses in town. The library at Wenatchee had them, again, back into the 19teens. It helped me confirm some "maybes" I had regarding the dealership I was looking for and the Olds dealership that preceded it.

My '71 Corvette was delivered to Angels Camp, CA, and I know the dealership it went to (since long gone) but I don't know who the first owner was. I have a name that might have been the first owner (now deceased) and I plan on going to Angels Camp some day and check out their local library as well, using whatever resources they have. Who knows - my Corvette just might show up in a newspaper picture of a local parade in Angels Camp in the spring or summer of 1971! Or maybe the potential first owner got arrested for some illegal vehicle maneuver and I will see it being towed away in a newspaper picture!

Randy C.