The Henry Family has owned the Ford dealership downtown since 1916. Speaking of Fords: that is Carroll Shelby standing at the crosswalk and one of his early series (260 cid) Cobras parked nearby.
Across the tracks - figuratively and literally - is Sports Car Sams. He has a meager collection but a few jewels among them, including an old, old Aston Martin way in back.
Uptown is the Autopark area, zoned only for dealerships. There is Quick Motorcars specializing in British sports cars, City Auto across the street (Corvettes and high performance American), and at the end of the street the Ferrari factory.
Out the highway in the other direction, outside the city limits, is Lucas Doolin's place (Robert Mitchum from Thunder Road). He services hot rods and other modified cars, and is a dealer of sorts, although not of cars, but you can pick up some jars of a clear liquid that pretty powerful if he trusts you. That's Philip Marlow he's talking to in the foreground.
After three months of waiting Diecastdirect shipped this resin TVR Griffith 200 to me. I love these early TVRs even though I know that, as cars, they were truly wretched things. This one will soon make its way to Nigel Quick's dealership- in fact it will displace the XK140 in his showroom. It was 3 inches shorter than a '72 Spitfire (behind it) and at a claimed 1500 lbs, weighed less, too (or so the factory said) - and came with a 271 HP Ford 298. I drove one briefly at moderate speeds in 1973, and it felt dangerous - too much HP in a short wheelbase with lousy brakes. I then watched the owner work it through the 1/4 mile at 12.5 at around 110 - awesome for the day, on street tires.
