Sale 2520 | Lot 376V
(NAVAJO CHEVROLET COMPANY) Presentation album with 16 photographs chronicling the offices, service workshop, and showrooms of what later became known as Navajo Motors, located at 116 E. Route 66 in Gallup, New Mexico.
Showing off the gleaming 1958 new models of chrome-bumpered Bel Airs and Delrays, the competent workshop mechanics and spacious garages which took on Chevrolet-only repair jobs, and the "OK Cars" used lot featuring a host of vintage trucks, coupes, and sedans, glinting in the desert sun. Silver prints, the images measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), mounted recto/verso to pages; sleeved. 4to, brown boards, with the company title, in ink, on the spine. 1958
[1,000/1,500]
The Navajo Chevrolet Company opened in 1927 and was founded by J.M. Williams, a New Mexico Pioneer and Native American trader in his earliest days.
