100-Year-Old Car Salesman Still Knows How to Close a Deal

Not many of us can say we've been doing the same job for 69 years. That's probably because the vast majority of us won't live to be 100 years old.

Derrell Alexander, a Chevrolet salesman at White's Mountain Motors in Casper, Wyo., celebrated his own centenary on March 17th, bringing his employment with the dealership to 53 years spanning four separate ownerships regimes. He started selling cars in 1946 at another dealership in Douglas, Wyo., some 50 miles away.

"Sixty-year-old ladies remember him selling their parents cars," new car manager Marco Castillo told Automotive News. "Rarely will there be somebody who he doesn't remember what car they had or something about them."