WlilTBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, -1987, PAGE 25 Archie Ewing m now on hiLs owin in used car business The Four Corners used car business on Brock St. N. may have ceased operation in July, but one of its sales employees basn't. Archie Ewing began bis own operation, under bis namne, at the samne location in October, 1: and he's now experiencing al aspects of the trade. f"I'm now buying, selling, fixng - the whoie bail of wax," he says. "You do everytbing yourself, or at least see that everything ils done the way you want."- Ewing first got into the car business in 1967 wben be soid Obevrolets - bis favorites - at a dealership in Mississauga. In 1970, be ieft to begin his own janitorial and snow removal business in Mississauga, whicb be describes as a "very successful" venture. But ha later gave it up te taka over the general store in Leaskdaie, north of Uxbridge. That enterprise, lasting more tban two years, wasn't se successful, compounded by Ewing's health problems due to arthritis. In 1985, be returnad to cars -as salesman for two months and then rentai manager for a year at Courtesy Chev in Toronto. He sold cars for about a year at Four Corners before going alone. Wbiie one of "is " cars, the Chevette, bas soid welI over that time, the Ford Mustang remains the best seller, lie says. He bas about 15-16 vebicles, of ail types, on the lot now but plans te add, not surprisingiy, more Chevrolet products this wnter. "If Ibad myway, it wouid ba ail GM," le says with a iaugb. People want "as is" cars now, says Ewing, and those that cost about $1,000: "Like the guy wbo Automobile insurance bils reputation of the used car business. But "black and white" regulations, penalties for improper actions and increased vigilance has, overail, cleaned up the business. Ewing says the main prokblem for operators such as himsçlf is "curb-sitters," residents who consistently seli vehicles from their frontyards. "They seii twice as many as used car dealers," he says. But Ewing bas learned that arrests may soon be made should someone be found to have sold more than three cars a year from their property without a licence. ARCHIE EWING now runs his own iised car on Brock St. N. puts bis Corvette up for the winter and wants another car." He gets cars from a wholesaier in Toronto, and later plans te obtain vehicias from car dealers. But lie won't buy from auctions: "You don't get a good enough look at a car." And he notes that ail used car dealers get fooled at some time, no matter wbat the source. "Anybody wbo says lie doesn't get stung is iying," he says. Ewing says be~d like te earn a reputation as one wbo salis a "good automobile, a good-looking automobile." And of course, a business successful business means keeping "new faces" on tbe lot. He's done that with 12 cars sold in the Iast montb, which lie says is a good start. He's a membar of the Used Car Dealers Association, wbich lie says provides tbe correct regulations that -wili seek te prevent consumer rip-offs. Sales contracts are now made wbicb prevent "spinning miles," or reducing odometer mileage to make a car seem youngar. Ewing says somae operators, or at eaast tbeir empioyeas, may bave undartaken lots of activity" that didn't belp the introduced in legisiature On Nov. 4 the provincia government introduced the Ontario Automobile Insurance Board Act and amendments te j the Compuisory Automobile Insurance Act. Introduced by Financiai Institutions Minister Robert Nixon, the Bill provides for the establishment and operation of an t independent automobile insurance board and the creation of a uniform classification systam for automobile insuranoe. 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