Since "achieving" my Frogeye last month Ive inhaled bout everything printed
about the marketing history of the car in North America. A nagging question
remains. It is of no serious consequence, but I cant get over it. So just
in case there is anyone near my age on the list, here go: I was a carless
sophomore in college in a small central PA town in 1958. One day while
walking to the only bar that sold underage, I passed a car dealership and
in the window was a blue bugeye. I went in and the salesman reluctantly
showed me the car.( In those days no college kids had any money.) A dream
was born. I stopped by that window every day. Two years later I bought a
very used (up?) TR 3, but thats a whole different story. Its taken me
fourty some years to rectify that mistake. Anyway this was a very small
town and Im sure the Sprite wasnt sitting in a BMC dealership. The nearest
one of those would have been in Pittsburgh, a 100 miles away. My memory
says it was a Pontiac-Olds-Buick agency. So does anyone know if BMC had an
early hook up with a Detriot manufacturer back then? My impression was that
that sort of multi dealership didnt happen till many years later. Is my
mind gone? What the hell was a LBC doing in a small town Detriot iron
store? The Real Larry in Florida.
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