dad finally retired from dealership after 56 years.

Dad started working for Ryan Motors in april of 65. Ryan Motors was chrysler and plymouth. It later became Billion Motors. He stopped wrenching about 6 years ago when he hit the 50 year mark and took his tool box home. The last 6 years he has been handling the new car inventory when they are delivered. Anything from the ordinary dodge,jeep or chrysler vehicles to the fun HP versions. He did the inspections and logged the paperwork so when they were prepped for the lot that stuff was all done. He had the choice the beginning of April that the 30th would be his last day. He has not had to work finacially but just enjoyed it. To think the vehicles he has had his hands on and been behind the wheel is pretty eye opening. Here is the story the local tv station did on him.

Corey

https://www.keloland.com/news/posit...me-to-recharge-the-batteries-and-retire/

Awesome! Congratulations to your Dad,

Awesome.

I bet the cars he has worked with were amazing.

Tell him it's OK to retire but not to grow old.

Thanks for sharing that. Brought a smile.

Wish Dick my best in his well earned retirement

Congrats to your dad!

Thanks guys! We got to spend a few minutes with the dealership owner and having him who is work gosh who knows what make the statement that he can look around the dealership and knows that there was things that dad did for training and certifications for the dealership that he was at the front of getting things done. That he can stop and wonder if he would have the type of business or the business itself if it had not been for the work dad put in all those years ago. Makes a son pretty darn proud hearing that!

Thats really cool
Your Dad looks great.
I hope he has a nice long retirement.

Congratulations to your Dad! What a great story.

What a wonderful dad you have! I hope you have many years together! Great story!!

Congratulations to him!

In some ways, I’m sure the time went by quickly for him. He’s a dying breed - not many young people will have lengthy careers at one location these days. It’s nice to have the stability and a place you can call home. Best wishes to him👍

You can tell he is well liked and had a big impact on a lot of people! Congrats to your dad.

Great story, thanks for sharing and that’s awesome that the local station carried the story.
Wishing both of you many more good times and memories to come!
Congratulations to both of you!

Wow - great story & congrats to your dad! He looks GREAT!

Good for him. Thoughts on a name and address that we can send cards to? He might enjoy that.

Congrats to him. I retired after 34 years on the same job, nothing like his 56. Now he can do what he wants, when he wants. I hope he enjoys it.

Great stuff!All the best to him!

your dad had a career 99% of people can only dream about. what a GREAT story !
congratulations to him and a BIG two thumbs up !

that would be very cool!

Dick Gaddis
26471 467th ave
Sioux Falls Sd 57107

That's such a great story!
Congratulations to your dad!
Wishing him good health and continued prosperity in his retirement.

Congrats to your dad on a great career!

Great story...Another example of the greatest generation!

On the way. BTW, one of our local Chiefs of Police is a balloon pilot, and a young lady in my records division is as well. She is a college student preparing for law school.

awesome thank you! What are their names? I am sure I have ballooning contacts that are mutual. Ballooning community is pretty close that way..

Tell him congrats.

Having been a Dodge dealer tech for almost 25 years . I can sorta relate ,,,almost . I got out of the field about 10 years ago now.

Mike Deikhoff is out of Bloomington and Jennifer Vance from up north- i many in her family are pilots as well. I also recall Bill Oliver, whom I went to school with and runs a family winery here was very big into that with the company logo on the balloon.

dad stopped up with your card. He was blown away. Said it was very nice to get it in the mail. Thank you!

That is so impressive and commendable! As others have written just to have worked at the same place for all those years shows incredible work ethic! And truly a dying breed!

Congratulations!!!!