Holden dealers that sold Chevs in the mid 50s?

[johnonetrillion]

Anybody know which Melbourne Holden dealers also sold Chevs back in the mid 50s?

Have a 57 Chev that I want to recreate a deler sticker for the rear windscreen. And want something cool like for the Muirs Holden stickers of the same time.

[fe350chev]

Mentone garage mate, Ill try find a logo for u.

[fe350chev]

Ok, there seems to be 2 main ones.
This means nothing I just like it



Today (I think)

[fe350chev]

Prestons was bigger and sold more chevs me thinks
Established mid 1920's


You can get many stickers from rares did u know?

[fe350chev]

Muirs for holden

[fe350chev]

how cool is this. I want a 55 chevy but have enough on my plate

[fe350chev]

This is cool. Would be cool to get a sticker made up like this and put on your handbook.

Is this the type of rig u have?

[johnonetrillion]

Thanks for the Rare Spares tips. I knew there were some decals about the place, but not that many! Nothing as good as the Muirs version, though.

Mine's a 57 2-door hardtop â€" right hand drive and being restored original.

Tell me, do you have a date for that newspaper ad from Mentone listing the 56? Was that from that year?

[fe350chev]

no it was jan, but their adverts were all the same for the first 6 months, thats why the new car listed is a 56 build.  do u know where your car is from? was yours a factory kit conversion done her or a private company.

[johnonetrillion]

Thanks.

So you man the ad was published January 56 or January 57?

My steering conversion was done privately using local (Australia) parts â€" dash and firewall. Those elements from the original care were unpicked and they new ones welded in as per factory. Then it was all put to an Australian RHD chassis with equivalent steering.

[fe350chev]

yeah Jan 57 sorry.

[fe350chev]

[johnonetrillion]

Yep, I have a bunch of those old Chev ads too.

'Full of spunk'? Well, yes ... maybe. :)

[REDMR2RED]

Check out "The Age" newspaper on-line.  It's free and you can scan as many pages as you wish.

The Age July 1955  http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=MDQ-9Oe3GGUC&dat=19550709&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

I've been using it for quite a while for Family History,  To find car adverts, click the left and right arrows to move to the next page or type in a date to get the paper you want.

Enjoy, Red