Auto expo cleveland ohio6/17/2023 ![]() After a few good weeks of selling cars, his plan of moving to Columbus and taking an entry level job in his field of study…. George noticed how busy the dealership was and made a comment to the salesman “why don’t you guys hire some help around here”, well, before he knew it he was a car salesman at Tansky’s. While studying Political Science in college, one of his friends asked if he’d go with him to the local Honda dealer to buy a new Civic. George started in the car business purely by accident. Over 23 years later, it’s still going strong, providing excellent service to their customers and their many, many, returning customers. The Carriage Company opened in January of 1998 and has been there ever since. Later that year, he ran into the owner of Auto Exchange who told him there was an available car lot in Lancaster….the door finally opened and Shawn decided to venture out on his own. In 1997, Shawn decided to come back to Ohio and started wholesaling with The Car Company. While working full time, trying to practice his golf game, and play….Shawn won the Polk County Amateur Championship, which was one of the largest amateur tournaments at the time. Throughout this time, Shawn continued to play golf on the Tommy Armour & Moonlight Golf Tours. ![]() This time to the New and Pre-Owned Sales manager. Within a few short months, Shawn was promoted again. After two weeks of selling, the owner offered him the finance manager position at their GMC store in Winter Haven. In August of 95, Shawn took a position as a salesman with Blount Chevrolet. Said, “how about you come to work for me being my lot guy, title runner, sell some cars”….That was 1985.Īfter 10 years with the company, Shawn decided to head to Florida where he could pursue a career in golf… playing the mini tours and work in the car business to support his dream. Rick Clum asked Shawn what he was doing for work. His mom told Shawn she’d co-sign for him, but he only got one shot. Shawn’s mom decided they needed to upgrade his car before they moved, and they headed over to The Car Company located in their hometown of Baltimore. His mom and stepdad were both retiring and were going to move to Florida. His greatest goal is for the dealership to be considered a great place to work.įresh out of high school and working at a golf course, Shawn was looking at different college offers for baseball and golf. Success has always meant more than a paycheck to Josh. Josh makes time to help others, not only those who are new to the business but to his employees and his community. They’ve been able to buy, remodel, and build the campus they now sit on. Skip ahead to current time….we’ll leave out the details of thefts, (money, cars, you name it), fires, numerous remodels, crying himself to sleep in the office countless times, running out of money 20 more times….the most important detail we won’t leave out….getting married to his beautiful wife Lindsey and being blessed with four children. Josh was sick, he couldn’t sleep worrying about what they were going to do. They were cruising! Just when they were hitting their groove, the landlord sold the property and they he had 30 days to move. By the one-year anniversary they were selling 15-20 cars a month. He came in and started using excel spreadsheets to track the accounts and allow them to see everything in one place. Somewhere around month 6, he hired a high school buddy. ![]() Josh knew absolutely nothing about financing…didn’t know how to set up payments, didn’t have computer software, he had nothing that was vital to doing business this way. There were so many things he didn’t realize he needed or had to have to start a business and he’s thankful for that ignorance, because if he had known, he never would have started.Ībout a month into business, his landlord (an old Route 4 car legend) suggested he do BHPH. He had very little money, and even less knowledge…but he had a dream, and he was hungry. ![]() Josh started 17 years ago in a small building just a few blocks North of their current location. ![]()
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