Article: Tacoma, Wash.-Area Classic Car Dealer Sells Customers Their Dreams.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 30 -- James Marsh had an itch, so he left a solid job with a hometown company and started a business of his own.

And the business has done fairly well because others itch for the dreams he sells -- of youth, speed and automobiles.

Not just any automobiles.

"The whole concept here is selling fun cars. The dream is to have the car you always wanted," says Marsh, 43, owner of Premium Motors in Fife.

It's the car your parents might not have allowed you to own: a Corvette, a Super Sport, a muscle car or a street rod capable of turning both a decent quarter-mile and the heads of strangers.

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