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Mister Bills Auto sales in Winnipeg


For thoughs of you who do not now about my avatar "By Mister Bills" please read.
It was the spring of 73 and I was at CPRail for 6 months and was looking for a new car as my 63 Pontiac convertable got totaled. My best freind Orest Kluczkowski nick name Klutch worked for is brother Bill at probably the only muscle car car lot in Winnipeg and turned me on to a 68 Firebird 400 4 speed car that I purchased for the price of $1600.00. Before my freind passed away he gave me a few of the Mister Bills  car stickers if I promissed to put one on my car in Memory.

The text below was tacken from the Keystone Bison site;

this decal graced several local performance cars
We'll let Mr. D'Argis explain

Mr Bill's Motor Sales first opened at the corner of Portage Ave. & Colony St. in Aug. of 1972.
Bill Thornton, Bill Leskiw and Bill Kluczkowski teamed up to open Winnipeg's first high
performance used car dealership. Moving in the Spring of 1973 they located to 3111 Portage
Ave. and continued to have the city's best stock of factory muscle cars, sports cars, luxury
cars and street machines. You may remember Greg Solarz drove the Mr. Bill's big-block Camaro
at Bison. Painted red & white like the Canadian flag it was hard to miss! Pictures Please!
Sadly, they closed in the fall of 1974, a victim of slow sales due to rising fuel prices, and a
shift in consumer choice towards smaller fuel efficient cars.
People who worked there included Orest Kluczkowski, Barry Steeves & Larry D'Argis.
Our motto "We don't just talk performance... We prove it!"


-- Edited by Beaumont4008 on Saturday 11th of April 2009 04:07:38 PM

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Thanks for telling the story.

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Any more decals left? Neat story.

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I remember that place. My brothers talked about it lots too.

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73SC wrote:

Any more decals left? Neat story.



I have about five . You want one ? Its made of the same material as those Licence plate stickers you get every year to update your plate. They sure stick.

 



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cool story. Too bad those kind of places don't exist anymore. (now it;s the dream car garage. Bedause of the prices)

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