I probably just missed your Dad as I did not get my dealer license until 1962 although I used another dealers license for about a year before that. I had always loved old cars and I certainly enjoyed fifty years of buying and selling over 10,000 of them during my time in the business. The car wholesalers and even the new car dealers and salesmen would bring in a car to sell and as soon as they parked it we would all run out look in the trunk and under the back seat and there was usually some change there and many times more. Also drug paraphernalia. Once I bought an Oldsmobile and upon looking under the front seat I discovered a long hose attached to a bracket that went thru the floor boards and the other end to a funnel. It took me a little while to figure out that the driver could relieve himself with out stopping while on the highway! Fortunately that device was never popular enough to make Pep Boys stores. Independent makes were always a bargain in the used car market and Packards, K-F, Hudsons , Nashes, and Studebakers were always priced lower. I once sold a fifties Studebaker for $39.00 and I had to take another car in trade for $15.00. Somewhere in my memorabilia I have a photo of an Allstate car that I had on the lot for $199.00 and it had a rebuilt engine. I always painted the price on the windshields in yellow paint. I turned an old Rambler upside down on the corner of the lot just to get attention. It got people to look. I doubt that it would be legal today and I called the Fire Dept. first and they said to be sure to empty the gas tank first which we did. Cars were cheap in those days and I will tell you abut some classics that we had.
