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Old 01-25-2003, 04:54 AM
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For those interested here is the dealer decal from Clark-Maple Chevrolet in Chicago that I said I would post.

After talking to my mechanic Gary today he told me that his late partner Frank worked at Clark-Maple for a short time before returning to Brigance. It seems that he left Brigance Chevrolet to follow Joe Seputes the Corvette mechanic from Brigance who aquired an administrative position at Clark-Maples service dept. Joe S is still with us and owns a shop called Veteran Automotive in IL. I have known of him for years and never knew that he was a long time Brigance tech as well. Joe preforms many NCRS level Corvette restorations today.


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Old 01-25-2003, 11:45 AM
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I just love those dealer decals and emblems!...BKH
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Old 01-25-2003, 03:34 PM
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Me too.....It would be nice if whoever has any type of dealer badge/decal/license frames to please share with us all.
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Old 02-19-2003, 04:21 AM
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My LS-6 was sold new at Brigance,The address on the build sheet says charged to 15W chicago ave Oak Park and shipped to 6558 w Grand Ave Chicago Il. I grew up in Elmwood Park and still go back to Johnnies when the line isnt a block long.
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Old 02-19-2003, 08:06 AM
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John,
I was digging through some old magazines circa 1982 and found a Brigance sold 1968 L89 Camaro featured. Not too many of those produced.
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Old 02-19-2003, 01:19 PM
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Frank M.
Any luck with getting that Brigance Decal repoduced?
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Old 02-19-2003, 04:39 PM
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Stefano it seems like Brigance is one of those dealers that is not talked much about. I rember growing up this was definetly known as a high performance dealer. I am sure there are many cool cars sold out of there.
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Old 02-19-2003, 05:09 PM
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With all the Hot Muscle cars that they did sell, I am surprised that they didn't find out about the COPO Super Car process.
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Old 02-19-2003, 05:10 PM
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Rick it is funny that you mentioned it. I talked to my friend Bill who has the sticker and I think that I might be able to get ahold of it this weekend. I know that I will have to get a copy for most of our Chi-town members [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] and ssl78 I will definately get you one to put on your LS-6.

The mechanic Frank that I mentioned in an above post that worked there told me that he bought a brand new 69 SS L78 Camaro in LeMans Blue brand new from there and traded it in on a brand new 1970 Chevelle LS5 454 black with white stripes that he used as a tow car for his boat!! Gary my mechanic that worked there told me that they sold many hi performance cars their and remembers that when he worked in the office in the late 60's swipeing all of those protecto-plates on the hi-po cars when they were in after they broke from being beat on! He told me that he remembers cars comming in on tow trucks that still had the white shoe polish on the windows from cars that came from the race track. Even though the cars were blown up or broken while racing he said that the service manager would say "Fix it, she's under warranty!" [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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Old 02-28-2003, 09:35 PM
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Just found this quote:
"The very first thing we do is get the people into the car and have them drive it. We have a demonstrator ready to go......what people are looking for is performance. We put them out in the automobile and we tell them to floor it, pass somebody and the engine sells itself. The 305 has the performance that people are looking for. It's all the power they need," says Ed Conforti, FENCL-TUFO CHEVROLET.

From PRO (Chev. Dealer Productivity publication) on 'Selling Tips on 305 V8', January 1977.

Things had changed since 1969! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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