Article: Clunkers over? Time for a sale!(NEWS)

Byline: Arlena Sawyers

Many dealers nursed cash-for-clunker hangovers in the days that followed the government's sales promotion.

Not Jim Click Automotive Group in Tucson, Ariz. That week the dealership sold about 700 new and used vehicles at a tent sale extravaganza in the Tucson Convention Center.

"To tell you we didn't have our concerns going into the sale, I'd be lying, said Sam Khayat, the group's COO. Jim Click Automotive had sold almost 500 new cars and trucks through cash for clunkers.

"But only 10 to 15 percent of the people qualified for cash for clunkers, and a lot of people wanted to buy used cars, Khayat said. More than ...

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