Re: 1904 Packard Dealership on Times Square
Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2012/4/14 8:02:09
Su8overdrive askes: Any fellow ex-NYers remember Ed Jurist's wonderful Vintage Car Store in Nyack?
Sure, I used to visit it often, on South Broadway in an old dealership building with the office area on a balcony at the rear overlooking the display area. I bought my 34 Packard from Ed Jurist's Vintage Car Store back in 1963. The car was sold originally by Packard-Brooklyn (Atlantic Ave) and serviced by them regularly right up until a year before I bought it. I'm not a NYer but live in northern NJ just a few miles south of Nyack. It was a great place to visit, often filled with many exotics for sale.
Adjacent to my 34 Eight Sedan was a 35 or 36 Super 8 convertible coupe for sale for the same (shockingly low in today's perspective) price. Much as I'd rather had the convertible, the clincher for the 34 Sedan was that it was complete (the convertible was in pretty rough shape a not running, missing some parts), on consignment from the original owner, and I could drive it home which was a major factor as I didn't have the $ for a transporter.
On a return visit a while later, Ed had a 1953 Derham formal sedan in pristine condition. He wanted $10,000 for it (this back in the mid-60s). That was about 10 times what I paid for the 34. The 35 or 36 Super 8 convertible was gone.
Here's a fairly recent photo (by Jim Pearsall I believe) of the uptown Broadway Packard building. Also a vintage photo of the (still in use) 11th Ave NYC facility.
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Sure, I used to visit it often, on South Broadway in an old dealership building with the office area on a balcony at the rear overlooking the display area. I bought my 34 Packard from Ed Jurist's Vintage Car Store back in 1963. The car was sold originally by Packard-Brooklyn (Atlantic Ave) and serviced by them regularly right up until a year before I bought it. I'm not a NYer but live in northern NJ just a few miles south of Nyack. It was a great place to visit, often filled with many exotics for sale.
Adjacent to my 34 Eight Sedan was a 35 or 36 Super 8 convertible coupe for sale for the same (shockingly low in today's perspective) price. Much as I'd rather had the convertible, the clincher for the 34 Sedan was that it was complete (the convertible was in pretty rough shape a not running, missing some parts), on consignment from the original owner, and I could drive it home which was a major factor as I didn't have the $ for a transporter.
On a return visit a while later, Ed had a 1953 Derham formal sedan in pristine condition. He wanted $10,000 for it (this back in the mid-60s). That was about 10 times what I paid for the 34. The 35 or 36 Super 8 convertible was gone.
Here's a fairly recent photo (by Jim Pearsall I believe) of the uptown Broadway Packard building. Also a vintage photo of the (still in use) 11th Ave NYC facility.
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