How can I find out the name of the Oldsmobile dealership in Eaton, Ohio that I purchased a NEW Olds Delta 88 from in late 1970?

 

Hi Jerry, hopefully someone can point you to the correct one. In the mean time, look at this. A list/catalog, that one of our members has put together over the years.

https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...-online-68987/

 

Thanks, but it is not on the list.

 

Could it be Slemker Pontiac Olds GMC? Eaton is a small town (only about 8,000 today), so I would think there would not have been more than one Olds dealer in town.

http://www.autodealerdirectory.us/oh...on_c_madd.html






Here's a google street view of the dealership's address (909 E Main St). Looks like an abandoned car dealership.

 

It could be. Please send me the phone numbers on the tag. I can't quite make them out. Thanks!!

 

Eaton Ph Nr on key fob looks like 456-1151 to me?

 

I don't own that key ring. I found it on ebay. You can buy it for $6.99 plus shipping if you want.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/352699384890

The best I can do is try to read what it says in the photo. The top number appears to be 456-1191. For the bottom number, the last two digits are hard to read, but it looks like 252-6160.

Why do you need the phone numbers? Are you planning to call them to arrange a test drive of a new Oldsmobile?

There's also a hat for sale on ebay.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Sna...-/302920288970

 

Actually, he states the phone numbers in the auction listing. 456-1191 and 252-6180

 

Just reaching for straws right now. I received a reply from Benson Ford Research Center today that said "The records pre-1967 are not known to have survived." Not what I wanted to hear. Thanks for the info.

 

Slemker -
https://www.autoguide.com/dealers/sl...inc-11366.html

According to Dun & Bradstreet Slemker was founded in 1983?
https://www.dandb.com/businessdirect...-14031672.html

If that be correct, not likely it sold the OP an Olds in 1970?

 

Interesting. I've found some newspaper ads by Slemker in archived issues of the Dayton Daily News, but they only go back to about 1990 or so. I still have to believe that there was only one Oldsmobile dealer in a town as small as Eaton, Ohio, but perhaps it operated under a different name prior to 1983. Slemker bought it then and changed the name? Doesn't help the OP with the actual name of the dealership in 1970. I do think that trying to find newspapers from that time that might have contained advertisements is one way to go.