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Originally Posted by Jeff/Illinois

In he 60's at the local Ford dealership they used to sneak in the new model cars at night on a transport truck They unloaded them and would park a couple in the showroom and wrap them in heavy brown butcher's wrap paper so they couldn't be seen until the grand opening, a day they had cake and coffee and all sorts of giveaways. A couple would go out to the owner's farm where he hid them in a barn.

Fun times and the owner's son had bragging rights at school because he had seen the new model cars before we did!! We were all jealous

Back in the '50s and '60s I remember touring dealerships with my Dad and trying to talk the salespeople into letting us look at the new model cars a few days before official release date. He pretty religiously traded in on a new car every three years.

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