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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 12:52 AM
Subject: Re: Member who works at a dealer

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
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 12:08 AM
Subject: IML: Member who works at a dealer

I THINK you mean Hugh, in TX who did a stint at a local Mercedes dealer. Oops!  Sorry, I mean Chrysler, Chrysler, Chrysler!!  It was a couple years ago when the museum was not doing to well, or some such reason.  Try him at: hugtrees@xxxxxxxx   If I am wrong, my apologies to Hugh.

Bill Ulman
Seattle, WA



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Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 7:32 PM
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Subject: IML: member who works at a dealer


There was a member who works at a Chrysler dealer. Are you still out there. I need some help locating a part if you are. Feel free to email me at mhoppy@xxxxxxxxxxx or hopkinsm@xxxxxxxxx

Matt Hopkins
66 Crown
75 Lebaron
92 Imperial




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