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Location: Montreal, Canada | This is for sale on a local classified ads site.
I figure it must be rare as hell, being that Dodge-Desoto dealerships were a Canada only network.
Too bad the neons are gone.... and the guy is asking 1500$!
Still, a very nice piece, and I thought I'd share!
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Location: Montreal, Canada | The sign looks very much alike the one that adorned the dealership where my car was originally sold in 1959:
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Location: Finger Lakes NY | i would love to get my hands on that!!!
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Location: Montreal, Canada | fast59desoto - 2010-12-11 10:58 PM
i would love to get my hands on that!!!
Me too! But I wonder what it's really worth in this shape, and if the neons could be restored (and how much that would cost)..? |
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Location: Finger Lakes NY | id give around 900 in that shape assuming the other side is in about the same shape neons wouldnt be cheap i have no idea how much they would be |
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Location: Southern California | I like the idea of offering $900. Neon letters would probably be around $20 each, glass insulators where the eloectrode holes are, $10 each, two 9000 volt transformers $120 each, plus any labor. Go for it! It's a rare sign. |
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Location: Parts Unknown | Neon tube bending will run you about $20 a foot these days. This sign will cost about $2500 to restore.
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Location: Montreal, Canada | Doctor DeSoto - 2010-12-12 1:54 AM
Neon tube bending will run you about $20 a foot these days. This sign will cost about $2500 to restore.
Ouch! I figure this could be expensive, but not that much!.... I'd rather put such an amount on another project car!
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Location: georgia | Do you have a phone number for the guy? Thanks |
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Location: Montreal, Canada | lamar - 2010-12-12 3:12 PM
Do you have a phone number for the guy? Thanks
Sure thing! If you want to have a go at it, this is too expensive for me anyway!
The seller's name is Martin Desbiens, and he is located in St-Cyrille-de-Wendover, near Drummondville, an hour east of Montreal.
His phone numbers are:
819-470-9710 or 819-397-4291
Here's his ad (in French, of course):
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Location: Iowa USA | this one is slightly different (non neon), but also Canadian
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Location: Parts Unknown | soiouz - 2010-12-13 8:56 AM
Ouch! I figure this could be expensive, but not that much!.... I'd rather put such an amount on another project car!
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This is actually a pretty good price on that sign. However, it appears to me that the enamel coloration is very faded
and this would affect desirability. The strong original colors command a premium.
There was a similar Hudson dealership sign for sale at the Hudson National meet this last summer. A few small chips
to the enamel, but good color. All the neon was broken. $4500
I paid $900 to have the can replaced and all the neon redone for my dealership clock. A friend did it and I got a good
price. But it has a LOT of neon for its size !
Double-sided signs cost twice as much to put the glass back into ! |
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Location: Montreal, Canada | roadkillontheweb - 2010-12-13 7:36 AM
this one is slightly different (non neon), but also Canadian
Wow! That's a nice one!
Seeing this one, and following Doc's comments, I guess the other one is really faded a lot and that it was the same dark blue originally. |
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Location: Plymouth Spaceport | Has anyone here ever seen an original dealership sign with the Forward Look boomerangs come up for sale?
Were there any original Forward Look neon clocks?
How about any molded rubber door mats with Forward Look boomerangs?
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Location: Iowa USA | 1960DesotoAdventurer - 2010-12-13 9:11 AM
Has anyone here ever seen an original dealership sign with the Forward Look boomerangs come up for sale?
Were there any original Forward Look neon clocks?
How about any molded rubber door mats with Forward Look boomerangs?
Have seen two Forward look neon's and both meant to hang in windows.
One had "forward look" spelled out in the crotch of the boomerang and the other was just the crossed Boomerangs.
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Location: Parts Unknown | My dealership clock is a Glo-Dial and dates to 1948. It has lots of neon, but simply reads "Sound Horn / For Service" around the clock face. It hung over the service door at a/the dealership in Helena, MT, whose name escapes me at the moment.
My other clock reads "Colfax Motors / DeSoto Plymouth / Phone 102". This one has the lettering stenciled onto the clock face with a single green neon ring illuminating behind. It is a real early Glo-Dial and dates to 1937-38. |
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Location: Montreal, Canada | That sign is back for sale for 1200$.. Tempting, but I don't have the space to put it! |
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Location: Finger Lakes NY | pm sent
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Location: Montreal, Canada | Here's the new ad:
http://qc.kijiji.ca/c-acheter-et-vendre-art-objets-a-collectionner-...
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Location: Finger Lakes NY | put in a call on it wish me luck thnx daivid for posting it again
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Location: Montreal, Canada | fast59desoto - 2013-01-27 2:08 PM
put in a call on it wish me luck thnx daivid for posting it again
Another one of my contacts called the guy this afternoon and was told the sign was sold. Did you get it, Jeff? |
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| Just having fun with an old thread. This sign would be 10-15k now |
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Canadian DODGE - DESOTO dealership neon sign
