Alabama
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ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 13, 2010 – G. Wayne Gargus, President of Courtesy Buick GMC Truck, Inc., a Buick and GMC dealership in Birmingham, Ala., was named the TIME Magazine Dealer of the Year from Alabama.
Gargus was chosen to represent the Automobile Dealers Association of Alabama in the national competition. The award is sponsored by TIME Magazine in association with Goodyear, and in cooperation with NADA.
“The success of my business,” says Gargus, “has allowed me to offer help to many organizations that help the citizens of our community, such as Toys for Tots and Alabama Goodwill.”
Gargus began working as a very young boy in 1950 at his father’s sawmill in Springville, AL. He got his start in the automobile business at McKay Motors of Oneonta in 1954, working in the parts department. He was young, alright, as it would be three more years before he graduated from Oneonta (AL) High School, class of 1957. That same year he got a job with NAPA, in Oneonta, working in parts. Some eight years later, the industrious Gargus was owner of his own parts business, Blounstville (AL) Parts.
In 1971, he opened his first GM dealership in Oneonta; it was called Gargus Pontiac Buick GMC. Eighteen years later, he owned another GM store in Ensley, AL, and put his full name on it: Wayne Gargus Pontiac Buick GMC. Gargus built his current Birmingham dealership in 1996, and his son, Timothy, serves as Vice President of the family business. Each year from 1996 through 2008, Gargus was a recipient of GM’s Mark of Excellence award.
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