Category:Fenstermacher & Rems Company, Allentown, Pennsylvania

The dealership opened in October 1924 at 322-26 South 17th Street as the Franklin Sales and Service Company, selling Franklin automobiles. It was owned by Robert P. Fenstermacher and Raymond J. "Pete" Rems, both World War I veterans. Fenstermacher was previously a buyer for men's clothing at H. Leh & Company. Rems was a former partner of the Rhoda-Rems Company, who started the dealership on South 17th Street selling Anderson automobiles in 1922.

In April 1926, the dealership moved to a more visible location at the new Central Motoramp Garage at 5th & Court Streets (26-32 North 5th). With the move, the dealership was renamed as the Central Motoramp Garage Co. The dealership began selling new Franklin automobiles on the first floor of the garage even before the parking facility opened at the end of October 1926. At the end of 1930 it was renamed as the Franklin Sales & Service Company, and in March 1933 it was awarded a Packard dealership after the Lichtenwalner Motor Company went out of business. In 1934, it added Studebakers. In 1935 the Franklins were discontinued when Franklin went out of business. In April 1936, it became solely a Packard dealership when the Studebaker franchise was transferred to Peters Motors on South 12th street, which had previously sold Hupmobiles.

In June 1946 Fenstermacher & Rems moved to a larger location outside of the central business district, at 13th and Turner. It became a Studebaker-Packard dealership in 1954 when the two companies merged. By 1957, it was selling "Packardbakers", as Packard stopped producing its own automobiles, and began assembling Studebaker Presidents that were sold under the Packard nameplate. The last Packards rolled off the assembly line in 1958, and in 1959 the Studebaker "Lark" became it's primary car when the Packard name was discontinued. In September 1961 the dealership closed and filed for bankruptcy. Fenstermacher passed in April, 1976; Remes in May, 1969.

After it closed, the dealership was taken over by Grim Motors in October 1961, owned by William E Grim. Grim Motors home office was in Topton, and operated the Allentown dealership as a satellite location, selling Studebaker Larks. Grim sold the location in March 1963 and consolidated the dealership in Topton, the site becoming an automobile electric servicing garage, owned by William Mechanic. In April 1964, the property became the Solomon Lincoln-Mercury car dealership, which operated until April 1978 when it became Kennedy-Haldeman Lincoln-Mercury. It ended its use as a car dealership in April 1983, when the Lincoln-Mercury dealership moved to Lehigh Street.