Oct 17, 2019 - Sale 2520

Sale 2520 - Lot 376

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(NAVAJO CHEVROLET COMPANY)
Presentation album with 16 photographs chronicling the offices, service workshop, and showrooms of what later became known as Navajo Motors, located at 116 E. Route 66 in Gallup, New Mexico.
Showing off the gleaming 1958 new models of chrome-bumpered Bel Airs and Delrays, the competent workshop mechanics and spacious garages which took on Chevrolet-only repair jobs, and the "OK Cars" used lot featuring a host of vintage trucks, coupes, and sedans, glinting in the desert sun. Silver prints, the images measuring 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), mounted recto/verso to pages; sleeved. 4to, brown boards, with the company title, in ink, on the spine. 1958

Additional Details

The Navajo Chevrolet Company opened in 1927 and was founded by J.M. Williams, a New Mexico Pioneer and Native American trader in his earliest days.