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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote sidewinder Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Nov/01/2009 at 3:02pm
So that means every time I work on my car and end up bleeding ( which is frequently) a little AMC is leaking out.....ummmmmmm...better be more careful....I might start liking those SS Chevelles that are always parked next to me......
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I was an AMC Dealer from 1965, all the way to the end.
Dealership is still here, in North Central Texas.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Ohio AMX Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Nov/21/2009 at 2:52pm
Originally posted by possum possum wrote:

I was an AMC Dealer from 1965, all the way to the end.
Dealership is still here, in North Central Texas.
Which dealership? Any pics from back in the day?
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... the world's youngest dealer to boot!!!

According to your profile, you would have been 11 years old in 1965... Wacko



Edited by 67RogueX-Code - Nov/21/2009 at 7:56pm
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote possum Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Nov/23/2009 at 6:52am
Maybe I was at that!   
 
I've grown up in the Dealership.  My G'Dad, and Dad were Dealers, and I started working here in 1971.  I actually became the Dealer in 1976.  It just feels like this is all I've ever known!
 
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Thumbs Up Thanks, I kinda figured that's what you meant.
 
What was the name of the dealership & its location... got any old pictures (we love that kind of stuff here Big smile)? 
 
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We are in Mineral Wells, Texas
Russell Whatley Motor Company.
800-725-3329
Mineral Wells was the home of Fort Wolters, and during the Vietnam War, if you had anything to do with helicopters, you came through here.    We are still here, still open.   I will look around for old photos, and learn how to post.
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One other little FYI.............
If you watched the Senate hearings on Dealership closings in June, I was the Dealer testifing before Congress.  
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Although my dad and Grand-dad had an Hudson and AMC dealership, I never worked there while they were selling cars.  In 1979 I went to work as a parts counterman at Greentree AMC/Jeep in Clarksville, IN.  On October 1, 1979 the dealership changed hands, became Indian Village AMC/Jeep, the parts manager quit, and I became the parts manager.  Grossly undercapitalized, Indian Village AMC/Jeep was padlocked by the bank on March 20, 1980.  In October of 1983 I went to work as a counterman and AMC/Jeep specialist at Blue Grass Lincoln-Mercury AMC-Jeep-Renault Saab Isuzu and Alfa-Romeo at 4301 Shelbyville Road in Louisville, KY.  AMC pulled their franchise in 1985 when the owner once again "stiffed them" on building a separate showroom, and in March of 1985 I went to Cross Pontiac-GMC AMC-Jeep-Renault, which had shortly before purchased the franchise from the old Wilhelmi's AMC-Jeep [which if memory serves me correctly, began as Douglas Hudson Motors in around 1919, then became Douglas Rambler, Wilhelmi's Douglas AMC, and finally Wilhelmi AMC-Jeep.  That dealership was always located at the intersection of Bardstown Road and Douglas Blvd. in Louisville].  I stayed with Cross until December 1985, when another GM dealership offered me a lot more money for a lot fewer headaches.  Cross Motors--which began as Cooke Pontiac in downtown Louisville--finally sold the Pontiac-GMC franchise to megadealer Sam Swope, and is now Cross Motors Chrysler-Jeep.
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I have never worked at adealership but Here is a Dealer sign I have been driving by for 22 years. I also worked in Southfield Michigan in the 70's and watched the AMC Tower burn up in I think 75. Does any one have a picture of the tower burning?
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