Kam Motors Limited and the Oldsmobile....

Kam Motors Limited and the Oldsmobile THEN and NOW......

The 3rd picture top right is a little shadow box we did for my dad for his 90th birthday showing the years he gave to Kam Motors in the body shop. He worked there for many years before he began teaching Auto Body, and by the time the mid 50's came around, all the department managers were able to have a demo car to drive around, just to advertise the fact that they worked for the GM dealership here. My dad happily drove the bottom of the line 4 door 1955 through 1960 Chevrolets during his tenure there but his all time dream was and still is to own one of those beautiful incredible 1950's Oldsmobiles.....They were the epitome of styling and design for General Motors at the time and not really knocking the Caddys Buicks Pontiacs or Chevys, he always wanted one and as you look at these advertisement art pieces you can understand why and my friend Steve Miller would also heartily agree, as he is a great lover of these Oldsmobiles too!

Kam Motors was a very thriving GM dealership during these days as you can see by some of the older photos and like everything else all good things must come to an end. Their sister dealership, Port Arthur Motors and Kam Motors amalgamated a number of years ago now to be named Badanai Chev Olds, which is now located on Memorial Ave.

As usual it is sad to see the deterioration of what was, but the building is still well used as Diamond Taxi, Ace Automotive and Superior Propane.

Be sure to click on all photos to enlarge and see how the Oldsmobile had advanced from its 1903 through the 50's and jump to its ugly and boxy 2010 model. The war time ad is also impressive.

Kam Motors Limited and #34

Here's another great Jalopy shot taken in turn 1 at the CLE back in the 50's. The recognizable cars are #88 Al Massaro and at the back was #34 driven by a couple of different guys. It was sponsored by Kam Motors Limited(long gone now) and mainly driven by Bill Chepil, and then by Canary Trevisan, the paint shop manager who was a great friend of my dad, as my dad John was the body shop manager at the time. On two occasions my dad did drive the car but rather would have stayed out of it! Kam Motors Limited was the Chevrolet, Oldsmobile and Cadillac dealership back then and right into the '80's. I was very lucky as a kid to hang out there whenever I wanted to. I tried to learn all I could from watching the guys in the body shop. The picture above was taken near the big bay doors shown in the brochure picture. Great times!