Yes, Jimmy is a fine young man, and he'll make a fine salesman here at Chevrolet! A year later, in December of 1941, young Jimmy answered his Country's call to arms! And fought in the South Pacific with the U.S. NAVY aboard a destroyer and participated in some of fiercest naval battles during the war! And when he returned home with a chest full of medals, there was a job waiting for him at the Chevrolet dealership ! ✌🏻🇺🇸
@barath45453 жыл бұрын
IF he returned, yes.
@northerniltree2 жыл бұрын
Jimmy studied hard and applied himself well to Chevrolet salesmanship. Things went swell! He took out loans and bought a new Ford and a home. He married his neighbor's teen-age daughter, and they were expecting triplets. He was on top of the world. Until Dec. 8th, 1941. Seems priorities had shifted overnight, and now selling Sherman tanks door-to-door was a real struggle.
@motherlessgoat723 жыл бұрын
I hope I have a boss like this someday. He/she'd earn my instant respect.
@Noospherebusiness14 жыл бұрын
This is a very useful video for any aspiring sales person and sales managers. 70 years old but still current in the things that matter. I really loved the fact that he is knocking doors selling cars.
@TenofSwords12 жыл бұрын
I know some so called "Managers" that need to see something like this.
@wettex48169 жыл бұрын
There's more oil in them guys hair than there is in the cars' crankcase! What a hoot! Thanks for uploading - I love "Americana!"
@CycolacFan3 жыл бұрын
14:43 Remember when you knock on a door it’s important that everyone stands in ascending order of height.
@garyseven23085 жыл бұрын
Jam Handy reminding you to keep your preserves in a convenient place.
@noisepuppet3 жыл бұрын
First draft was called Preserves Convenience
@tomservo56954 Жыл бұрын
Jameson Handy, Olympic medalist and founder of the company
@cman13522 жыл бұрын
I liked when he said to his Dad “ starting Monday morning”. Back when people had lives and didn’t work in weekends. Weekends was for family. That’s long gone.
@kennethsouthard6042Ай бұрын
Especially, in the car sales business as everyone works weekends.
@georgemartin14365 жыл бұрын
"Jimmy? Always take a gun with you on your calls. If you don't need it, that's swell, but if you do.....I've found a prospective buyer is far more willing to buy if he knows you will shoot him if he doesn't..."
@joesinkovits65912 жыл бұрын
This must be how they sell all those crappy Asian cars.
@jimgordon3206 Жыл бұрын
“You can get further with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone.” Al Capone
@milfordcivic675510 жыл бұрын
Little did they know a year later all auto production would stop for the war....
@jvarela96513 жыл бұрын
:o My grandmother had a 41 Chevrolet in Cuba when my father was a tot. Car is probably still roaming around down there.
@ct17625 жыл бұрын
amazing to think people were alive then that were born in the 1830's and 1840's! thats only 35-40 years after some of the founding fathers died!
@tomservo56954 Жыл бұрын
Then as now, few people percentage wise reached the century mark...but at the time this film was made, the U.S. government was still paying veterans' benefits to the offspring of a man who fought in the War of 1812.
@lassenforge76482 жыл бұрын
Best sales tactic for 1940 - "You better buy this new car, they won't make any more for the next 6 years..." Then again, that'll backfire - "I won't need your new Chevrolet, I heard the Government will give me a new Ford or Willys as a company car"...
@-oiiio-39932 жыл бұрын
Domestic auto manufacture and sales were not regulated by the Office of Production Management until 1942.
@randybargar44082 жыл бұрын
So much if this still rings true 80 years later...
@joerorick14 жыл бұрын
I really thought this was a mockery about car sales.. I've been pushing metal for years and I can really relate to that film. Good stuff!
@therealxunil24 жыл бұрын
1 year later... Drafted!
@keithnichols79264 жыл бұрын
Learning to sell cars door to door was good training for selling Fuller brushes.
@Ivanatis12 жыл бұрын
these ephemeral films are priceless
@themega100467 жыл бұрын
10:14 Joel:AHH! FLYING ELF'S ARE BACK!
@tdickensheets10 жыл бұрын
This was on MST3K!
@virginiadrake93510 ай бұрын
They even did their own musical based on the short, and it was a MASTERPIECE, I loved that skit in Bride of the Monster.
@cellytron5 жыл бұрын
Are you now, or have you ever been, a Ford owner?
@rsb__3 жыл бұрын
Ok so I’ve mastered how to sell 1980s Benzes, lets go 40s Chevrolets. Thanks KZbin....
@rjep211 жыл бұрын
I came to see Tom Servo singing "I got a jooooooob todaaaaaay... I'm selling Chevroleeeeeeeet..." :(
@virginiadrake93510 ай бұрын
Joel was singing that part, the Bots all sang along.
@kennethsouthard6042Ай бұрын
After several successful years of selling Chevrolets, Jimmy decided he needed a major change in his life. On a wild hair, he quit the Chevrolet dealer, changed his name to Darren Stephens, moved to Westport Connecticut and took a new job in advertising sales for McMann & Tate. He then met a woman named Samantha.
@ianchristopher94225 жыл бұрын
BUT HE BOUGHT THE FREAKIN' CAR!
@garyseven23085 жыл бұрын
Flying elves are back!
@jackielantern65 жыл бұрын
Good salesman. Bad salesman. Inka-Dinka-Do! Hahaha!
@kevinconway60225 жыл бұрын
Door to door car sales. Wow.
@darrylbarker50512 жыл бұрын
Those hats absolutely rock!
@constanttraveler14 жыл бұрын
Wow, door-to-door cold calls. I never knew.
@buellfuel20013 жыл бұрын
If the sales men of today would place a call every now and then to past customers it would be a different sales experience
@jimgordon3206 Жыл бұрын
Eventually that turned into what “on the job training” should be.
@EricJamesHanson12 жыл бұрын
Wow! I went to work selling for a high pressure Chevy place with terrible turn over of salespeople (chew 'em up and spit 'em out.) in the late 70s. It should have been like this! This is far superior,
@virginiadrake93510 ай бұрын
Joel: "We're gonna have leadership the way my old man told me! You, put a handkerchief on your head! You, swat at imaginary elves! You, rock on the porch all night!"
@maccarsx11 жыл бұрын
Not much has changed - 'cept for walking the beat for retail customers. We still do that for business and commercial deals. Shows it was hard even back then.
@CycolacFan3 жыл бұрын
6:51 a pitcher of nice cold... ‘lemonade.’ I haven’t pee’d in it or anything.
@JohnTheTexan13 жыл бұрын
COFFEE IS FOR CLOSERS JIMMY!!!!!
@40Kens3 жыл бұрын
In 1941, A Car Salesman, or any Salesman of that time, can make a living on Commissions alone - and buy a Home. Consumer goods like Radios and Refrigators were boomin and in high demand with all kinds of cheap payment plans - and "Made in the United States of America" to boot!.
@jensgronning44362 жыл бұрын
That all ended when women entered the workforce. When you double the size of the workforce salaries get cut in half.
@fmichaelb12 жыл бұрын
Door to door cold calling for car sales? Wow, that must have taken some fortitude. But here's his problem, look at the houses, seems that people in that neighborhood would be much more interested in Cadillacs or Buicks.
@keithnichols79264 жыл бұрын
That's why Jimmy wasn't selling any Chevvies?
@everydaystuffandthingsguy45543 жыл бұрын
"Look see I'm only gonna say this once see! Selling is swell see, until you get a Jack, or a beat see!
@geoben18103 жыл бұрын
$390 for new car! Not the car payment, the price of the car! 😲
@JJVernig25 күн бұрын
about a years salary at the time.... So nothing changed...
@miclwold14 жыл бұрын
I like the expression on the old guys face when the saleman can't tell why the Chevrolet is better than the Plymouth
@jaredolson75435 жыл бұрын
Well golly gee Mr. Warren, I think I can sell cars too. Hot diggidy dog!
@browsertab14 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jam Handy!
@emmarose42342 жыл бұрын
Adlai Stevenson buys a car!!!
@thro882 жыл бұрын
Jimmy reminds me of myself when I first started selling personal massage devices door-to-door years ago.
@CycolacFan3 жыл бұрын
10:19 you wanna see my Laurence of Arabia impression?
@paulhayman7407 Жыл бұрын
They don't work harder they Work they smarter
@JoaqMan11 жыл бұрын
Hired II: Laid Off
@hansgruber650 Жыл бұрын
Great.
@heartlandhobbyist75169 ай бұрын
“Agh! The flying elves are back!”
@paradoxdea5 жыл бұрын
The boy found his roots!
@RobertPlattBell10 жыл бұрын
15:36 the days before auto wholesalers! Today, they'd do an inflated trade gag and then wholesale the customers trade-in, rather than try to sell it on the lot.
@leeannbellew7466 Жыл бұрын
Nice video for motivation on leadership😍
@SamuelKhan5 ай бұрын
11:37 "I'm gonna DANCE!"
@carlister25159 жыл бұрын
A Walking Door to Door #car Salesman in 1941 without a demo car! My how things have changed in the #automotive industry!
@MrBairensoy11 жыл бұрын
The lessons in this clip are timeless, and easily extrapolated into managing in general with a little variation. Just ignore the acting, the cheesy music, and some other things like selling the middle-age guy his next 10 cars. Of course know-it-all smart asses will only see something to mock. Which is why they are know-it-all smart asses in the first place. Management isn't about making your staff feel good, it's about empowering your staff to do a better job, which will make them feel good.
@KridkornTangthanasirikul14 жыл бұрын
5:09 Hard time but also feel leisuring score...
@ConnecticutEmporium8 жыл бұрын
17:02 Better Call Saul
@nikkasrviolent74659 жыл бұрын
I used to sell Chryslers door to door was a lot of fun...
@jimgordon3206 Жыл бұрын
Imaging selling cars door to door. I can see a lot of “sorry, not today”.
@paulhayman7407 Жыл бұрын
When selling cars you have at least 10minutes to size customer Up before He walks
@kiprandom72082 жыл бұрын
I tried waterproofing sales. I was on the phone with my manager at least 2 hours a day. He'd call in the middle of my appointments. I couldn't breathe.
@gst69man13 жыл бұрын
cool
@amcanmike14 жыл бұрын
DIFFERENT TIMES THEY WERE
@NationalSalesCenter13 жыл бұрын
So funny... yet... sad but true in some ways.
@Youtubeaccount36911 жыл бұрын
@16:40 wow that nigga is like 55 and the manager telling him about selling him "his next ten cars". I guess if he gets one every year...
@tomservo56954 Жыл бұрын
There are those who trade every year for various reasons
@wassupguy17 жыл бұрын
But he bought the car!!
@mtshasta41952 жыл бұрын
does anyone know where to find the GM training film called "remember me" ? It was about customer satisfaction.. from the 70's or 80's..
@MrDonovanFrost13 жыл бұрын
10:14 Flying elves are back!!!
@jordanthecat13 жыл бұрын
@walksinstorms Jeepers, I agree!
@David.M._19792 жыл бұрын
Leadership 101
@maddogsportzjh6 жыл бұрын
13:30 But he bought the fucking car!!!
@everydaystuffandthingsguy45543 жыл бұрын
The handy dandy evidence manual!!!
@jaybrown1828 Жыл бұрын
# 1 reason to buy the new 41 Chevy……There will not be another new Chevy till 1946
@paulhayman7407 Жыл бұрын
He might be to honest
@chieftp10 жыл бұрын
the kid has moxie!
@hildablanco15919 ай бұрын
People preferred Studebaker trucks for its soft ride under load
@fearthebeardmomma21023 жыл бұрын
Those damn fairies...
@OHZFAN12 жыл бұрын
Sales. Nothing new under the sun.
@williamj1813 Жыл бұрын
Jimmy, do you like movies about Gladiators?
@dbrewer533 жыл бұрын
I had an old car manager tell me there’s Only TWO reasons a car salesman fails.. # 1 they don’t know how.. He was full of BS # 2 they don’t want to
@DMBall2 жыл бұрын
Door-to-door car salesmen. What won't they think of next?
@nlpnt12 жыл бұрын
On foot, no less. With one platform and one engine/trans combo for '41 they could easily have taken a car and offered test drives on the spot. Today, some sort of initial contact via email or social media would be needed to find out what kind of car the prospect is interested in - no point showing up in a strippo Impala when someone wants a Sonic with every option...
@tomservo56954 Жыл бұрын
Other films showed subsequent refinements, such as keeping a file of car owners and their vehicles, along with the use of mail and phone solicitation--by then it was expected the prospect would go to the dealer.
@CycolacFan3 жыл бұрын
A 1941 Chevrolet? Well actually I was going to buy a Japanese car, it’s not like anything is going to happen to put me off buying Japanese...
@NadrianATRS3 жыл бұрын
woah that dude's chin, it could break walnuts
@houndogforever7 жыл бұрын
1941? Bad year to start selling cars.
@motherlessgoat723 жыл бұрын
A bit...
@tomservo56954 Жыл бұрын
In 1941 Chevrolet sold 1 million cars for the first time...
@dubyag41242 жыл бұрын
wait....scanning the comments, I don't see ANY MST3K fans here??? I feel so.....so alone.......
@tomservo56954 Жыл бұрын
They're there...
@LindsayHale6511 ай бұрын
I'm here!
@mickeybitsko16762 жыл бұрын
2nd place prize in contest? A set of steak knives
@mickeybitsko16762 жыл бұрын
Jam handy, detroit institution
@mickeybitsko16762 жыл бұрын
This is a training filum?
@hildablanco15919 ай бұрын
And Packard cars were taking the auto market in ride
@shane14893 жыл бұрын
When did Mayberry get a Chevy dealer?
@TheRoland44410 жыл бұрын
Gasp.
@SatchmoSings12 жыл бұрын
In "those days" Chrysler cars were better; I would have bought a Plymouth over a Chevy or Ford anyday.
@cosmosolis9 жыл бұрын
Be prepared to give up your conscience and dignity; do whatever it takes to sell that car. Nice guys (honest, trustworthy) finish last. They say fill the customers needs; HA! There is a lot of leeway in pricing. You make more money selling used rather than new. In 1992 I sold Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles. I sold a 1992 $27k Olds 98 full sticker price; my commission was $100. sales mgr said it was a "special GM program car". I sold a 1986 Olds Cutlass for $3995; my commission was $400. I lasted 4 months selling cars. I hated it!
@mcearl80737 жыл бұрын
Chaleco Salvavides I sold cars for almost exactly one year. It was the same for me, every new car I sold (Chevy and Buick) was a 100 dollar commission which was the minimum deal. It didn't matter if we negotiated or not, I always felt like the dealership was lying to me and cheating us out. Used cars were where the money was, especially on one we got cheap on a trade in, my highest commission was 750 dollars on a used suburban and honestly the guy got a pretty good deal on it, so I'm sure who ever traded it is the one who got the shaft. Selling cars wasn't for me but I think everyone should do it for a bit just to see how people are. I'm not sure who lied and cheated the worse, the sales managers or the customers.
@RobertPlattBell10 жыл бұрын
5:00 Today, the salesman would use the "inflated trade" gag, rather than lose the sale. They inflate the price of the trade-in to make the customer happy and then jack the price of the new car with hidden fees and add-ons, to cover the difference. Pretty primitive sales techniques back then. Today's auto dealers are as efficient as a slaughterhouse!
@KaiBannon7 жыл бұрын
Strange editing they did. And everyone destroyed the rest of the tapes.
@DelbertGrady19273 жыл бұрын
Guess he kept his chin up.
@Panthers15212 жыл бұрын
Shouldn’t Jimmy be in Germany?
@operator912106 ай бұрын
Could be late '40 selling the '41s or it's early '41 and America hasn't entered WW2 just yet
@SatchmoSings12 жыл бұрын
In "those days" Chrysler cars were better; I would have bought a Plymouth over a Ford or Chevy any day unless I wanted the power of a cheap V8, then I would have gotten a Ford but in every other way a Plymouth was still a better car.
@RobertPlattBell10 жыл бұрын
Wow, they sold cars door-to-door back then? Today, you call the dealer and they say, "F-You!" How times have changed. Back then, they actually wanted to make a sale!
@akdude816 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing. That's some serious balls, going door to door to sale cars.