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You are right, I did sell cars for a while but I
think he meant someone else who joined around the same time. He actually
works in the parts department at an older dealership and said he might be able
to help folks get parts. The place I worked at relocated in the 1990s and
had no old parts of any kind.
I look back on the experience with little
fondness. It is a killer of a job. You are there 72 hours a week and
you end up hating everything about cars and the people who buy them. The
most successful guys there were chain smoking alcoholics with several busted
marriages in their wake. However, it was a valuable experience to have
had. I have gone with some friends while they are buying cars and, knowing
some tricks of the trade, have managed to get them much better deals than if
they had gone alone. It is so easy to mess with sales people and sales
managers once you know how. They hate it and they keep smiling to make the
sale. Revenge is petty but curiously satisfying.
I met a man there who once ran a Chrysler /
Plymouth dealership in a place called Karnes City for decades. he
inherited the place from his father. It is closed now. He had almost
no experience with selling Imperials but he did tell me that he hated having
them in his repair shop. He didn't have the parts so they had to be
special ordered from a company, Chrysler, that could be very slow in
getting them shipped out, plus his mechanics had very little experience with
them. They were substantially different from your average Plymouth or
Dodge, of course. My my, but things don't change that much,
really.
Hugh
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