Car dealership pictures needed

[The Modeling Hermit]

I've scoured the internet and the books on dealerships that I have, but mostly all that I can come up with are external pictures. I need some good interior pictures of car dealerships from the latter fifties to the early sixties. I'm hoping to find posters and promotional literature in the background so that I can see how it's displayed. I'm sure that the internet is loaded with this, and I've just been looking in the wrong place, so if anybody could reset my GPS, and steer me in the right direction, I sure would appreciate it. If you could post pictures that would also be infinitely helpful also. Thanks.

[Junkman]

I can recommend you a superb book on the subject:

The American Car Dealership by Robert Genat. It is available at Atomic Pinup:

http://www.atomicpinup.com/ForSale.html

In the late Fifties - early Sixties, the decoration inside the car dealerships was usually very minimalist. Hardly any decoration at all. Add a bit of G-Plan furniture and you are there.

Edited August 8, 2010 by Junkman

[Guest Johnny]

Talk to Ed Shaver! The Diorama King!

[Darin Bastedo]

Here is a few I've collected over the years...

hope this helps.

[Swifster]

X2 on "The American Car Dealership". I had a copy that has somehow been lost (loaned out maybe?). A lot of good information. As mentioned, that cars were the stars and there wasn't a lot of foo-foo in the showroom. Now, the service bay; that was the mechanics domain and there wasn't a lot of political correctness .

[The Modeling Hermit]

Thanks for the pictures and suggestions. I already have the excellent book that was mentioned, and would recommend it for everybody that loved to visit those old dealers. I'm in possession of several of Robert's books and they're all well done. I was hoping to be able to find some more pictures to draw inspiration on, but my wife actually came up with a better suggestion. She was on a vacation awhile back, and got to visit a classic car dealership in Seattle, and now she wants to do a diorama based on classic cars. That works for me. I get to build the models, and she'll do the diorama. I'm sorry that it took me so long to get back to you, but I had a rather unpleasant viral bug yesterday. I really appreciate the effort that you fine people put into answering my question.