[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by vintageogauge

Between 1975 and 2016 I purchased 24 new Cadillacs and every experience was the same. I dealt with the same salesman at the same dealership and learned to trust him. I would simply call and tell him what I was looking for, he would get it, discount it, and deliver it to my house with all the paperwork that needed to be signed. I never traded in as I had a fellow that always wanted to buy mine that were only 1 or 2 years old. I even bought a bunch of Chevy pickups during that time for my business and he would line up a Chevy dealer to do the same thing for me and I'm sure he got taken care of from them. The salesman is still living but is old, I'm still living but am old and I don't drive so much anymore so my buying habits have changed. I did buy my wife a Honda from Jenkins, they tried to make it rough but I just got up and told them you have my offer if you want to accept it you know where I live. The next day they called, approved a personal check, had my insurance transferred for me and dropped it off in my garage, signed all of the papers on my work bench.

My father from the late 1940s through the 1960s bought first Oldsmobiles then Cadillacs from a local dealer much this way. The dealership did all his service which was not cheap but our cars never broke down and we drove from NM to MD and/or CA yearly. Then the son took over and everything changed. It was not the same dealership. He stopped doing business with them.