By 1969 it was an AAMCO transmission repair shop. After Satori left, it became Motor Enthusiasts, Inc. By the summer of 1959, Peter Satori took it over and used it until 1961. selling Rolls Royce, Bentley, Aston Martin, Rover, and DKW (eerily similar marques that Satori was selling at this time). By 1957 it was Desser Motors / Preston Moore Inc. In the late 1940’s this building was used as a Hudson dealership. Unfortunately, there is no trace of the original building.Ĥ18 State Street, Santa Barbara (~1959 - 1961) After Satori it became Caustin and Sons, a Lincoln dealership. Peter Satori used it from June of 1953 to 1961. In the late 1940’s this building was a Studebaker dealership called, Thatcher and Alexander. Unfortunately, there is no trace of this building left. Before Satori, it was briefly Cavalier Motors, selling Alvis cars. Satori used this address for a few months in 1953. Unfortunately, there is no trace of this building remaining.ĩ035 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles (1953 only) Satori recently purchased Coventry Motors, 9334 Wilshire Boulevard, which he had previously owned from 1949 to 1953." We weren't able to fully unwind the Coventry Motors / Peter Satori relationship. Plus there is a curious statement we found in a 1962 newspaper article, ".Mr. First, they sold similar cars and they seemed to swap two locations back-and-forth (338 N. Was there a business relationship between Coventry Motors and Peter Satori? There might have been. It seems to have been used as a body shop, Brown Brothers Body and Fender, between 1953 (when Coventry left) and 1962 (when Satori moved in for the second time). We found that Satori ended up using this building one more time in 1962, but only for one year. It looks like Coventry lasted in this building until 1955 when Coventry moved to 9334 Wilshire Boulevard (another address associated with both Coventry and Peter Satori).īut here is a confusing bit. It looks like Peter Satori moved into this handsome building in 1949 or 1950 and used it until June of 1953, when a man named Ted Dillan (another SoCal British Car distributor) took over the building and called it Coventry Motors. Canon Drive, Beverly Hills (~1949 - 1953, and again in 1962)
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