I’ll wait a day to send this to a few friends. By then it may be shown to be a fake letter. I mean, come on. This kind of thing only happens in the Soviet Union, Venezuela, and Ayn Rand books. Right?
(April 1st was really hard this year. Almost impossible to tell the real stories from the fake ones.)
The letter is real. I called the dealer for confirmation.
As I commented earlier on an another related thread, thousands of GM and Chrysler dealers are being boarded up. The owners of these dealerships, while certainly in some cases may have been dem supporters, are probably about as overwhelmingly Republican-leaning as any other group you could find in this nation. I know some auto dealers in my area, and they tend to be active in community affairs and generally support and contribute to GOP candidates to state houses and Congress. The dems know this well, and are gleefully using this “crisis” to decimate the ranks of supporters of their opponents. Can’t let any crises go to waste, after all.
My recommendation to the anguished dealer penning this letter: immediately initiate discussions with Toyota, Subaru, or any other import maker who might be interested. Ultimately I think this move will hurt GM and Chrysler -— many customers will have to now drive further to buy a car or have a car serviced. How many reliable GM or Chrysler buyers who now are confronted with a twenty or thirty mile drive to the nearest dealer will decide instead to finally swallow hard and reluctantly test drive a foreign make at the formerlyu GM or Chrysler dealership two miles down the road? I know I will. From personal experience, I know that Honda makes a phenomenal car, and they make many of them in the United States.
Go for it, Mr. Joseph. Next time I drive down I-95 I hope to see big signs for Joseph Sunshine Honda-BMW or something as I approach Melbourne.
There is a real Sunshine Dodge in Florida. It shouldn’t be too hard to find out if they are being forcibly closed and if their franchise is being moved elsewhere. BTW, Glenn Beck had a man on last Fri. with a remarkably similar story in NJ — 60 year old franchise, family business, making money, taken from him and being given to someone two miles down the road. Coicidence? Or just the Plan?