My 1958 Plymouth Belvedere was shipped to ‘John L. Kruse Motors Inc.’ (dealer no 54883 as noted on my IBM build card) Clarence NY in April of 1958 and sold soon after. The dealership was located at 10885 Main Street and became ‘John K. Kruse Motors Inc.’ upon his father’s (John L.) death in 1962. The Kruse family who had founded the dealership in 1939 kept the dealership until sometime in 1973 when it became ‘Smith Bros.’ Dodge until sometime in 1979 when it became ‘Bob Gibson’ Dodge. ‘Bob Gibson’ Dodge became ‘Clarence Dodge’ until the mid 2009 when it became the used car outlet of ‘Transitowne’ Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep in nearby Williamsville, NY. My guess is the last change to a used car outlet was part of the restructuring of Chrysler’s dealerships in the midst of the 2008-2009 financial crisis in which Chrysler closed nearly 800 dealerships across the US.

 In the last few years the dealership was sold to ‘Kelly Schultz Antiques’ which operates at 10885 Main Street today.