Originally Posted by
SoonerDave
I agree. That prejudice lead, in no small measure, to the creation of the South Oklahoma City Chamber. However, I think someone who was responsible for a great overhaul of how Oklahoma City in general treats south Oklahoma City in particular is the late Harold McEwen, former Ward 5 councilman, who stood up for S. OKC more than anyone I can recall.
Not quite. Fred Jones built that location sometime around '98-'99 to become what Ford was a "premeire" (forget the precise term) series of dealerships in the OKC area, but also had some sort of special affiliation with Ford Motor Company. This was, if I'm not mistaken, one of those goofy things that ol' Jacques Nasser tried to do to resurrect Ford's crumbled image - short of actually trying to build better cars. It got Ford in trouble with its "non-affiliated" dealerships, because they correctly perceived that they were indirectly competing for sales against the manufacturer, who was giving perhaps GREAT price preference to this new breed of "elite" affiliated dealerships.
The elite dealership idea failed miserably, and the individual dealerships in the chain were sold off. That particular dealership at I-240 west of I-35 has been perhaps three different names since that Jones concept dealership went south. I can't imagine ANYTHING being successful there; it's a horrendous location for a car dealership, seems to me.
Now, having said all that, let me apologize for the topic drift. Lost sight of the fact this is a thread about Primo's on I-240. Sorry!
-SoonerDave
Bookmarks