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."

It's this connection with multiple generations of customers that drives Alexander to come into work each day more than 30 years after someone would typically retire. He still arrives at 8 a.m. every morning, Monday through Saturday, and doesn't take vacations.

“The bible says on the seventh day, you rest,” he told the Casper (Wy.) Journal

Alexander only sells between six and 10 cars a year these days compared to 30 a month in the '50s and '60s, but that doesn't hinder his desire to aggressively chasing each sale. Like a true salesman, his tactic is simple: "Stay with them until they buy or die."