yeah cause I'm on a mission to find this baby! Does anyone Know where this dealership was ..or anything??
When you zoom in on the photo it says "Samson Buick" and in smaller letters "Pittsburgh, PA". Interestingly, this car currently for sale on EBay references that it was originally delivered to Samson Buick: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Buic...nvertible_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQitemZ280356078920 I saw another reference that Samson was the oldest auto dealership in Pittsburgh at one time, but the dealership does not exist today from what I can tell.
That's what he typed in the title of this thread, I think he means the exact address in Pittsburgh, PA? And they had a fire........
Erik, That was the very source I saw referencing that it was the oldest dealership in Pittsburgh (see bottom of the ad). Rob
Forward & Murray is in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh. I went to Taylor Allderdice H.S. which was just up the street from Samson.
Yeah I spelled it wrong kill me now...lol when did this place go under? And they had a fire........ [/QUOTE]
If it helps any it looks like they were located at, at least up until 1981: 5223 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15200 This info comes from gsxnut's Dealer Code list on buickgsx.com . YellowPages Maps shows there to still be a car dealer at the location.
It's STILL A Buick dealership!:TU: use Google maps to get this: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&c...3PEH&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1 Click on the 'Street view'!
Wow Don Allen Buick.. hey if you zoom in you can see a Banner that says store closing..!! Walt lets go find that car its prolly near your house sitting in a field poping up daysies !!!!:3gears:
Their website still works but if you click on any of the links within their site you get a blank web page. They might have closed like the signs in the parking lot picture imply. http://www.mydonallen.com/HomePage This story notes that the site of the dealership will become a large development site with hotel, etc.: http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2008/01/21/story5.html
Good friend of mine bought an LS-5 Chevelle from Don Allen Chevrolet in East Liberty when he returned from 'Nam. We called it "Dumb" Allen back then. I guess he bought the Buick dealership too? GM dealerships closing will be a common sight.
May be a few decades late, but I worked there from 74 to 78 in the body shop. I can help if anyone is still interested.
Around 79 80 they moved the operation out of 4 buildings into a huge shuttered steel mill in lawrenceville.closed a few years later.
I knew Hud Samson. Many of his cars got stored at Don Allen Chevy which was a 3 story building close by after closing. It was like a museum if you got to go in it. No one seems to know exactly what happened to that collection...
