When I was a lot lizard, (car salesman) I dreamed of better days. I dreamed of having my own crew of lot lizards to boss around and go on demo rides for me to sell their customers cars as a Read More …

The car bizz is full of snakes, and the swamp is deep. I used to wholesale cars. I bought cars from dealers and re-sold them mostly to other dealers, either face to face or at a dealer auction. Back in Read More …

My son is in the car bizz now. It’s a whole lot different for him than when I got in the bizz. He uses e-mail and programs to keep track of customers and his pipeline of “ups.” I used a sheet Read More …

Way back in the old days credit was not as easy as it is today and no where near as cheap. For a while in the late seventies and early eighties a good home loan was in the seven to Read More …

Japanese Junk You meet some real jerks when you’re selling cars on a lot, and you meet some wonderful folks who become great friends too. I met a couple one time who became pretty good friends. They were elderly, probably Read More …

I was wholesaling cars for a while, and I made a name for myself as the “big ugly truck guy.” And it started with a really ugly one. And pretty big one too. I was at a new car dealership Read More …

Ice Cream Rewards This story is not mine, I heard it from a guy who was older than dirt when I was still dirt age. Back in the old days customers knew nothing about nothing about the car bizz. They Read More …

Ether. It is a state sometimes. Don’t know if you ever sniffed any but it can make you do weird unexplained things. Like buy a car. And that’s what it’s called, “in the ether,” when a customer finally decides they Read More …

Busted Honda Deal The Honda store I worked at in the 90s was small…and old. The sales office was a small square stuck between another small square office and the admin office on the other side. The desk in the Read More …

Where Do I Sign Up? I think I knew when I was about ten that somehow or another I would be involved in selling cars for a living, but my first real experience into the intricacies of the car bizz Read More …