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Now Showing at Your Studebaker-Packard-Merecedes Dealer

That is NOT a typo folks!

 

In 1957, if you wanted to buy a Mercedes Benz in the USA, you had to go to a Studebaker-Packard dealership to get one.

 

By the time Janis Joplin asked the Lord to buy her one, many Studebaker dealers had become Mercedes Benz dealers.

 

She never told us about that part. She also never told us, she had a Porsche painted in psychedelic colors. Did she ever really need the Lord to buy her a Mercedes Benz?

 

This is a photograph of 1/24 scale die-cast model cars in a custom built 1/24 scale dealership building interior.

 

Danbury Mint 1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk

 

Franklin Mint 1957 Mercedes Benz 300 SC

 

Danbury Mint 1958 (looks identical to a 57) Packard Hawk

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Uploaded on August 13, 2021
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