The Car Trade - Revisited
The Podcast for car sales people, who want to reminisce, sit back and listen to some interesting and at times, amusing stories from an old "Car-ie". Written and hosted by Gordon McLeish, a fifty years veteran of the trade we all love. This podcast will cover the car trade from the sixties, up until more recent times. Plus, we'll add some of the car trades characters, the myths and legends along the way. Episode 1 will explain where it all started for me and how, like many of us, we fell, or just stumbled into........."The Trade"
Episodes
13 episodes
13: The Mini Car Revolution
I promised in my previous podcast that I would cover the MINI car revolution in this episode and I will, but first I need to do a touch more fleshing out of my journey back into the trade. After the briefest of all breaks aft...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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21:37
12: The cars we sold back then
The 1960s was a decade of great change and the motor vehicle industry played a major role in those changes. The decade began with the introduction of the iconic Mini and ended with the arrival of home-grown muscle cars – the Holden ...
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13:09
11: Back in The Trade
Back in The Trade The kids were growing up. The work was relentless and hard. Anyone that dreams of owning a little country pub should have a month running one on their own. Then decide. ...
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11:41
10: Drysdale Hotel
After about a year of hard slog, we got it into our minds, that we now deserved a NEW car.Something we could take away on a couple of weeks break. To South Australia or up to NSW. Anywhere, just to get away for a...
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14:01
9: AGC and other stories
Now you would think that joining AGC was a great move.Originally, I thought it was. No weekend work. About the same sort of pay they said, and more freedom, how wrong it was. When I worked in an office...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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15:25
8: Finance and other stories from my Ringwood days
When we needed to finance car, GMAC was the first port of call.Well, for all new cars that is.We had Lombard and others we could use if GMAC if a deal was a so-so type of deal.As well as Lombard there was IAC, AGC, Custom C...
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19:38
7: A Couple of last stories from Pattos
Before I move on, there’s a couple or so stories that I'll have to share with you. One involves a great character from Ringwood called AUB M. One involves Poopy K. The third involves an incident when I was wo...
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13:06
6: The Road to a Sale - Expanded
In my last episode, I said I would cover the road to a sale in more depth.So, as promised, I’ll attempt to entertain you with:The Road to A Sale - Expanded But before I do, I’d like to talk about two...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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18:03
5: The Patto's Sales Divisions
Times were definitely changing and we all had to change our sales process.One of those “new” sales techniques and processes was called The Road to a Sale.This was also referred to in the USA as the playbook.&nbs...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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15:24
4. The Sales Cadet
As a Sales Cadet, my training consisted of all the jobs that most salesmen found either tedious or demeaning. Running errands, finding missing keys, doing yard changes, making cups of tea for customers, and getting lunches for every...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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10:59
3: Bill Patterson Motors
But this feeling of euphoria was soon cut short.I was asked to report to the board room the one day and fearing the worst, I tidied up my desk and slowly walked across the mezzanine walkway and knocked on the door. To my surp...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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10:28