Here's the Tribute 69 #69 . Notice the Candy and spatter Stripes!!

Randy

The ad that Pete posted above is indeed interesting. In addition to the "1 of 69" as mentioned above, just the concept of advertising an absurdly high priced (at the time) car has got to be pretty unusual. I guess it might tend to draw in people curious about what made it so high priced :dunno:

Especially since judging by that photo it appears they primarily dealt in a lot of low buck pickup trucks.

They were a huge dealer of performance cars. This was a huge coal andd steel area-lots of high paying union jobs.

My neighbor bought this copo from them brand new-still owns it. 90% original paint except bottom of fenders and quarters.

Another local guy went up their to buy a Chevelle SS and they had over 20 SS to pick from.He came home with a burnished brown one.

I would imagine if you lived in the area at the time it would have been known. However looking at that advertising photo it gives the impression they are really pushing pickup trucks, since they are parked right out front for everyone to see, and there are a lot of them. Odd for a big performance dealer.

If I were looking for a performance car during that time and that photo in the newspaper is all I had to go by when looking for a dealer, that one would not have been my first choice.

Just an interesting picture in many ways.

Lets not forget that picture wasn't taken during the performance heyday. I'm not up on my old trucks but those are more than likely late 50's early 60's trucks. Maybe they got on board the performance bandwagon a little later? I can't say, just my observation of the photo posted.

Ha ha You would have lost out . My friends burnished brown Chevelle I mentioned from Heubners. Original paint. I went to look up what he said. There was 24 Chevelle SS to pick from. Not bad for a small town country dealer.

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Cool pic!
The one Mike posted Trucks are 63's also there's a '64 shot on the interweb w/ Trucks too but here's a cool one below w/ a flock of '65 Cutlass' including at least one 442 P:headbang:ST car!
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~ Pete

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I think I see a 442 emblem in the grille of the black post car next to the white one, and maybe even on the convertible next to that. Big '442' sign in the showroom window too :cool:

Fred Gibb was a small town country dealer too :)

And back to the original post subject, a ZL1 Camaro makes a pretty neat wedding car....with a rather cramped rear seat :haha: