AC address in Arlington VA

[Exacowner]

I read somewhere that for some period AC cars had an import office in Arlington, VA USA.  Never been able to find an address from back in the day.  I live in Arlington and was curious to see if I could find the location if someone knows what the street adress was.

[paho]

Found this file which gives the address as
A C Imports Inc 3169 N. Pollard St. Arlington Va.

https://www.fantasyjunction.com/uploads/documents/file/AE90-history_2023-07-25-210856_ryal.pdf

/BR paho

[bobbylangley]

What a fantastic history of that car!

[Exacowner]

So, thank you for the response placing AC Imports Inc on N. Pollard Street in Arlington, VA.  What follows may come under the heading "too much information" for some people but just in case someone else finds this kind of detailed corporate footnote interesting, here goes.  Turns out the importer, Joseph "Hap" Dressel, according to an announcement of his death in the New York Times edition of November 25, 1958, was an ex-military pilot who appears to have had a day job working in the defense industry.  He also raced cars and was seriously injured in Venezuela in a racing mishap involving Stirling Moss in which Mr. Dressel's car was destroyed and he was seriously injured.  The address of the import operation was actually Mr. Dressel's house in a north Arlington neighborhood -- the house still exists and can be found on Zillow.  According to the NYT, Mr. Dressel was killed in an accident on the George Washington Parkway near his home when his sports car hit a piece of construction equipment on November 24 -- Thanksgiving Day.  The GW Parkway is a long stretch of scenic highway that runs along the Virginia side of the Potomac River from Mount Vernon (Washington's home) in the south, through Arlington across from the District of Columbia and through a tony suburban residential area on the north (Mr. Dressel's old neighborhood) to where it meets a major bridge across the river.  As it turns out, today, some 65 years later, "The Parkway" is still well-known (notorious?) among local sports car drivers as a place to exercise one's vehicle, especially on relatively quiet low-traffic days and not necessarily in the daytime.  One can follow the beautiful curving roadway northward through the forest and use the cross overs at today's CIA exit or the Turkey Run exit and run the distance in reverse back to your entry point.  While Mr. Dressel's holiday accident must have certainly been a tragedy for his family, there are many drivers now living in Arlington who can well appreciate how he might have been enjoying himself that fateful Thanksgiving Day in 1958.