ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 13, 2010 – Rick Mastria, President of Mastria Buick Pontiac GMC Cadillac Co., Inc., a Buick, Pontiac, GMC and Cadillac dealership in Raynham, Mass., was named the TIME Magazine Dealer of the Year from Massachusetts.
Mastria was chosen to represent the Massachusetts State Automobile Dealers Association in the national competition. The award is sponsored by TIME Magazine in association with Goodyear, and in cooperation with NADA.
“As most dealers’ sons, I started at a very early age working each and every department at my dad's dealership,” says Mastria, “Saturdays, after school and semester breaks.”
Mastria graduated from Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School in Bridgewater, MA, in 1971, and then studied Economics while attending Stonehill College in Easton, MA. He got his official start in the automobile business as a wash boy at Richard Chevrolet in Taunton, MA, but in 1975, he attended Chevrolet’s “Dealer Sons’ School,” and eventually worked his way up to General Manager.
“At the tender age of 26, I became a Buick Dealer at a single point Buick dealership that was a converted independent Used Car – Exxon service station,” says Mastria. “I purchased the former Powers Pontiac-GMC in 1987, and ‘channeled it’ with my Buick franchise.” He was appointed the Saturn franchise in 1992. In 2004, he purchased the former St Yves Nissan franchise, and built a new NREDI building to house the franchise. Almost simultaneously, Mastria says, “I was appointed an open point franchise from Subaru, and built a new building for that franchise next to the Nissan store.”
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