1940 Local Delivered Prices Poster

[Guest shorttimer]

While doing some work in my mother's basement over the long weekend, I 'rediscovered' a piece my late father picked up somewhere over the years. It is a pricing board for the 1940 model year cars, although strangely it does not include several models. I thought it was interesting, so I took a couple of pictures and thought I would share it here.

With the frame it is about 3' x 4'. The surface itself is an untreated paper, so I'm not sure if it was intended to be marked up once to show the dealer's as-configured prices for each model, or if you could easily erase the total prices each time you worked up a new car configuration. Although not easily visible here, there are base prices shown under the black paint in each of the first three columns.

[Guest BigDogDaddy]

That is certainly very interesting, and pretty cool to see.

Thanks for sharing it with us.

[Jolly_John]

Wow, that's a first for me. Great to see this neat piece of Buick dealer history. Thank you for taking the time to shoot the photos, shorttimer. Best, John

[Guest shorttimer]

I figured it was sort of an oddball piece and thought it wouldn't hurt to toss a few pictures up online. Being able to share items like these are one of the best things about this forum.

[Guest 40 Buick 51c]

It looks like the missing models are the Super and Roadmaster convertibles and that would be because they didn't come out until mid year. Great piece!