Yeah gssizzler, The OCW (old cars weekly) looks different. But it's undeniably the 65 show. I went back to the Chicago Auto show website and I was looking at the photo of the Buick wildcat on a platform with the 2 woman (models) and the banners "Go first class ...Go Buick" look in the back round, you can see long hanging draperies as in the OCW photo. Also the decoration surrounding the platform is the same in both photos. Another item I noticed is the overhead lighting in the OCW photo, there are round light fixtures and long florescent tube fixtures. In the 65 Chicago auto show website photos (Rambler photo with Buick in the back round) There are round light fixtures but the florescent fixtures are large square boxes. So to me the OCW & the Wildcat photo match up, but not to the Chicago auto show web photo. Unless Buick had a very large display like in an L shape and the lighting and the set design is different on the other side ? Anybody have the 1965 Chicago Auto Show official program book, It would have the floor plan for each exhibit.
Getting back to Dan's 2 photos. Why would Buick have the Black/custom GS at the Chicago show when they already had the production GS (several of them) on the show floor as per the OCW photos since it was already mid February ? I would think that GM/Buick would be displaying the Black custom Buick in the Summer or Fall of 1964 to attract perspective buyers of the Buick performance car that will soon be in production. Did they have new car shows in the Fall, in this case 1964 ? From what I know the shows went from city to city. Does any one know what city that they start in ? (Here in NYC it was January.)
I found this info on the Chicago Auto Show at the Motor Trend website, called Hot Rod news. It's basically a Pontiac article but in paragraph 2 it states "Historically Febuary/March show dates have made it a perfect setting for mid-year introductions."
I will keep searching. Please post your comments & information.
Tony