Rick Neat building and story behind it, but I missed the Durant connection. Was there offices there? When are we going to see that prize winning 6-19? Ross

Where Are You From? Orygun

Do You own a car built by Durant? 1930 6-14

Ross, Durant Motor Company of Saint Louis was located there.

Where Are You From? Fremont, CA

Do You own a car built by Durant? 1931 Model 619 and 1929 model 60 Roadster

This page is from the 1929 St Louis phone book

Where Are You From? NJ/SC

Do You own a car built by Durant? 6

Here's a picture of a dealership in an unknown city. Pretty fancy I'd say.

Do You own a car built by Durant? YES, 1928 Durant Model 65 four door sedan

I haven't seen that picture in a long time, but I believe it was taken in San Francisco on Van Ness street AKA Auto Row.


Rick

Where Are You From? Fremont, CA

Do You own a car built by Durant? 1931 Model 619 and 1929 model 60 Roadster

"Dubuque, Iowa. The Lange & Tscharner Motor Car Co., sales and service for Durant, Auburn and Cord motor cars, has moved into a new home at 850 Iowa St."

This from a June 7, 1930 news article.

Google street view shows a parking garage on one side of the street and a newer office building on the other side of the street in the 800 block of Iowa Street now.

Anyone have an old picture of the building that was there in the 1930's? Maybe the local historical museum?

Where Are You From? Ellensburg, WA and Sahuarita, AZ

Do You own a car built by Durant? Yes, several

Just found a new one while talking in Facebook in the Old Ottawa And Bytown Pic's site
Horner Motors on 430 Gladstone Ave in Ottawa. Present owner has the sign with Star crest in upper left, Road King crest lower left. Durant crest upper right. Can't get him to show the full sign.

He says .. The floor is reinforced concrete and there was a ramp that allowed the cars in the building...Technically one could open a car dealership there today.

Where Are You From? Ottawa Ontario Canada

Do You own a car built by Durant? 1932 614 sedan made by Dominion Motors

Finally he put it up

Where Are You From? Ottawa Ontario Canada

Do You own a car built by Durant? 1932 614 sedan made by Dominion Motors

A continuing project this upcoming year will be to create a list of Durant/Star/Flint dealerships for the sake of history and later publication in the virtual museum. I thank everyone over the past years for submitting various information on the dealerships and keep them coming as you come across them stamped on the back of brochures, advertisements etc. that you buy or come across. Also photographs if you find them of the dealership. I'll add them to the list. Thanks everyone!

Where Are You From? Oviedo, Florida

Do You own a car built by Durant? 1928 Durant Model 65 4 door

It's been awhile since anyone has posted any new dealerships on here for their cities and just wanted to let everyone know that I have started a list of dealerships by state and city. If you come across any of them while doing research or you purchase some literature with a dealership stamp on the back or front, let me know and if I don't have it on the list, I will add it. Thanks to everyone that has posted pictures and information so far.

Where Are You From? Oviedo, Florida

Do You own a car built by Durant? 1928 Durant model 65 four door

Mike: where can we access the state level list you started?

Where Are You From? Ellensburg, WA and Sahuarita, AZ

Do You own a car built by Durant? Yes, several

Hi Bob;

I just received a large list in the mail today from Bob Smith with over 90 dealers from the U.S., Canada, Australia and even Switzerland. I started adding them today and I just sent an email to Bob saying once I get it completed with what I have and what Bob sent, we will post it somewhere on the DMAC site, maybe in the member section and on the Virtual Museum site. It will be modified from time to time as I get additional entries. Maybe with the Virtual Museum site, I can link the entry with a photograph if I can get them. Got to figure out how to do that, but maybe. Stay tuned and I'll let everyone know when I get it done.

Mike

Where Are You From? Oviedo, Florida

Do You own a car built by Durant? 1928 Durant model 65 four door

My grandfather Clyde Walton sold vehicles made by Durant Motors in the 1920's from a garage located on Broad Street in Lansdale PA. In the 1950's when I was a kid the building was still being used as a garage for automobile repairs. This building remains in the family but is no longer an automobile repair business. There is a photo of the auto sales dealership showing the 'olden days', somewhere in the family. A 'then' and 'now' comparison would be interesting to some.

Where Are You From? Southeastern PA

Do You own a car built by Durant? Dad owned a Star and a Durant

Thanks for the information Phil, I will add it to the list. Are you related to Ray Walton? He was a member of the DMAC for many years and brought his car out to some of our East Coast Meets.

Where Are You From? Oviedo, Florida

Do You own a car built by Durant? 1928 Durant model 65 four door

Well, I thought I'd finish up the list of dealerships that Bob Smith sent me and sat down at the computer and started to enter all of them. Got the list done, then I headed to Google and did a search for some dealerships that I only had the names and a street name for and no city or state. Well I found an advertisement in the Chicago City Directory for the 1920's and guess what I found and advertisement for a Durant Distributor in Chicago with a list of 37 Chicago and around the state Illinois Durant/Star dealerships. I guess I'm not done. I've been putting them in a list, but I think I'm going to try and put this in an Excel Spread sheet. But for now I'll add them on the list. States that I don't have any dealers listed yet are?

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Delaware (although I supplied Frank W. a list of these years ago, but have to try and find it)
Hawaii
Idaho
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
North Dakota
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Tennessee
Utah
Vermont

So if you have some literature you've collected and see if there is a stamp on the literature with a dealer name and address or live in cities in these states and get to the Library, see if they have some 1920's Polk City Directories or old newspapers and look for the Durant dealership advertisements and send me the information.

Where Are You From? Oviedo, Florida

Do You own a car built by Durant? 1928 Durant model 65 four door

And Canada ?? and OZ ??

Where Are You From? Ottawa Ontario Canada

Do You own a car built by Durant? 1932 614 sedan made by Dominion Motors

A few years ago, I had sent you the names of dealerships in Virginia. I have recently acquired early city directories from Cleveland, Milwaukee, NYC and other large cities from the twenties and thirties. I will check those this weekend for any additional Durant/Star dealerships. Thank you.

Where Are You From? Lynchburg, VA

Do You own a car built by Durant? Not yet.

Hey Norm;

I've got some Canada and Australia, but so far none from New Zealand. I'll send you the Canadian ones as I have a few that don't have the city names, just addresses maybe you can help fill in.

Mike

Where Are You From? Oviedo, Florida

Do You own a car built by Durant? 1928 Durant model 65 four door

Bill that's fantastic. Love to get them on the list also.

Mike

Where Are You From? Oviedo, Florida

Do You own a car built by Durant? 1928 Durant model 65 four door

If someone had the time and patience, they can use Google News Archives and go paper by paper day by day and pick up car dealers US / Can / Oz etc. and the new models. Pick a newspaper that fits our time range 1921 - 1933.

There's one OZ paper The Sydney Morning Herald Apr 3, 1830 - Dec 31, 1989
Jan 8 1924 page 4 has a Dodge Brothers Car and truck ad as an example, Standardized Motors Limited 276 - 278 Castlereagh Street Sydney Aus.


https://news.google.com/newspapers

Where Are You From? Ottawa Ontario Canada

Do You own a car built by Durant? 1932 614 sedan made by Dominion Motors

Hey Norm;

I looked at that site and it would take a long long time to go through all those newspapers for Durant ads for sure. I have a subscription to "My Heritage" a genealogical site like My Ancestry which gives access to various newspapers too. Maybe I can look into some of the bigger cities or at least the state newspapers that I don't have anything on yet. So many projects, not enough time to get them all done.

Where Are You From? Oviedo, Florida

Do You own a car built by Durant? 1928 Durant model 65 four door

Agree. Google Newspaper Archives had hundreds of papers you view for free or paid to view. Saw lots of my family info in Ottawa Citizen like gramps having a birthday party for his daughter in the 20's sort of thing. Didn't know my aunt worked for MetLife early 40's. Loads of Durant info and ads. Then something went funny and had people round the world upset with them for the mess that was left.
Can't recall what paper I started wading through a few years back near Lansing looking for ads and finally gave up going page by page, day by day. This is for someone who has nothing to do but go cross eyed.
We used newspapers checking on starting dates of plants and I recall one plant start date was off by weeks earlier. You never know what is hiding to disprove things or find new info.

Where Are You From? Ottawa Ontario Canada

Do You own a car built by Durant? 1932 614 sedan made by Dominion Motors