Article: Houston's big wheel: B.E. 100s Auto Dealer of the Year. (Huston, TX Gulf Freeway Pontiac-GMC Truck dealership) (The Nation's Largest Black Businesses)(The B.E. 100s)(Company Profile)

After surviving an assortment of hard knocks, Carl Barnett Sr. and his family have Gulf Freeway Pontiac-GMC Truck on the expressway to expansion

AS CARL BARNETT SR. STROLLS THROUGH the expansive 2,500-sq.-ft. showroom of Houston's Gulf Freeway Pontiac-GMC Truck, he looks more like a well-dressed banker or high-powered lawyer than the owner of an automobile dealership.

On this day the 48-year-old native of Altheimer, Ark., has on a greenish brown, three button Giorgio Armani suit, a light pink, French cuffed monogrammed shirt with an Armani tie, and he's sporting a pair of tan, alligator skin loafers. Not bad for a man who toiled in the fields picking cotton ...

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