I have a brand new STARR with magnetic strip on rear It was a sample from friend in business back in 80's and because I was a profession car selling guy , I have a few others... line up boys!!!
I have a car from Frayne's in Exeter...i'm talking Rick Frayne's Toyota Guess he's calling it Exeter Toyota now. And Carl, no, still not trading a Cdn Poncho decal for a Marvin Starr! LOL
I have heard that Marvin Starr is going out of business in the next month or 2. It's scary, we lost Bob Johnston Chevrolet in March, and about 2 weeks ago we lost Jim Davidson Chrysler (a 5-star dealer in business since about 1949). Alex Irvine Chevrolet packed up about 2 years ago, becoming strickly a GMC dealer and moving out of town. I remember Robertson Chev-Olds (Old Reliable) on the Danforth in Toronto closing down around 1991 after 50 years.
I would love to find a Wills Motors (Caledonia) dealer emblem for my '67 Chevelle. There were 2 different Wills Motors about 15 miles apart. Wills Motors in Binbrook may or may not still be around, but Wills Motors, Caledonia, was sold in 1979 and became Dennis Searles Chevrolet.
LMP (London Motor Products) had a twin in Hamilton (HMP) that was owned by the parents of a schoolmate of mine. They are still in business but have moved out of downtown Hamilton at Bay and Main up to highway 20 & 53.
Kerr is still very much around. My older brother's friend is head service advisor (or mechanic, I haven't heard lately).
I used to get showroom posters at the end of the model year from Douglas Pontiac Buick Cadillac (owned by Doug Leggat), but GM said he owned too many dealer franchises and he sold it. It then became Ainslee Hogan Pontiac Buick Cadiillac.
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Cam, Toronto.
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I have heard that Marvin Starr is going out of business in the next month or 2.
I heard the same thing on Friday from a GMAC insider. GMAC is actually putting them out of business because they can't get enough financing to give all the dealer's financing on their inventories anymore. When the dealers go looking for external finanacing they can't get it either.