Weld County Garage celebrates more than 100 years of GMC business in Colorado

Sept. 30, 2010 - PRLog -- Weld County Garage GMC in Greeley, Colorado

Weld County Garage GMC has been in business in Colorado since 1908 and is celebrating by telling the story of it's long history in Coloado...

The history of Weld County Garage GMC

In 1898 Weld County Garage GMC (http://www.WeldCountyGarage.com) opened as a blacksmith shoeing horses for the then dirt roads of Greeley Colorado. In 1908 Weld County Garage GMC entered the car business and became the first Buick dealership west of the Mississippi selling Buick’s most popular vehicle the Model 10. This was actually before General Motors existed. General Motors (GM) was founded on September 16, 1908 as a holding company for Buick, and on that date Weld County Garage GMC became a GM dealer. In 1908 GM purchased the Reliance Motor Truck Company and the Rapid Motor Vehicle Company. These two were merged to create GMC Trucks in 1912 and Weld County Garage GMC was in the truck business. Weld County Garage GMC began carrying Pontiac vehicles in 1926 when Pontiac became the new name for the GM owned Oakland Motor Car Company.

Visit Weld County Garage GMC to purchase your new Buick Pontiac GMC and washing machine?

Weld County Garage GMC (http://www.WeldCountyGarage.com) hasn’t always just been in the car business. Appliances were sold in the large showroom in the same building as the Buick Pontiac and GMC sales on 8th Avenue and 10th Street in Greeley Colorado. This showroom later became the large indoor showroom for Buicks and Pontiacs that allowed Weld County Garage GMC customers to shop for their new vehicle in the warmth of the indoors during the cold Colorado winters. Throughout the years Weld County Garage GMC has sold many forms of transportation and entertainment including trailers, boats, jet skis, four wheelers and motorcycles. The building on 8th and 10th was remodeled and expanded upon several times to house Weld County Garage GMC’s service department, Collision Center, and detail shop and even had an apartment upstairs. The apartment was at one time the residence of Gene Bush who has been an employee of Weld County Garage GMC for over 50 years. To this day Gene still works at Weld County Garage GMC making coffee and entertaining our customers and employees!

A new home for Weld County Garage GMC

After almost 100 years and several remodels of the original building Weld County Garage GMC (http://www.WeldCountyGarage.com) was running out of space to expand, and parts of the building were literally falling apart. It was at this time after years of dreaming about “moving to the west side” that majority owners Lee and Warren Yoder started plans for a new home for Weld County Garage GMC.

In June of 2003 Weld County Garage GMC (http://www.WeldCountyGarage.com) moved into its new home at 2699 47th Ave in Greeley, Colorado. This new location features a 22,000 square foot building set on over 12 acres of land. Weld County Garage GMC features two large service departments; our main site on 47th Avenue and our Truck City Service Center located at 1415 1st Ave in Greeley. The Truck City Service location services all makes and models including medium duty and recreational vehicles. The new location also features a huge parts warehouse, detail shop, all the administrative offices, a large multimedia and meeting room, our vehicle financing offices, one of the largest used vehicle departments in the state of Colorado, and of course it is the home our GMC and Buick sales.

In 2009 Weld County Garage (http://www.WeldCountyGarage.com) GMC saw the end of the Pontiac brand name and extensive restructuring of GM, but Weld County Garage GMC has continued as a strong business leader in our community and looks forward to the most successful years of it’s over 100 year history! Please visit us soon…

Weld County Garage GMC
2699 47th Ave
Greeley, CO
970-352-1313
http://www.WeldCountyGarage.com
info@weldcountygarage.com