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David Puddy · Mechanic turned salesman
Sales and service, same guy
Take as long as you need. He’ll be over there, looking at the wall.
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Convertible · Tan leather
Jerry bought one just like it. You gotta believe in the car. Puddy believes in this car.
One owner · Bought for a father · Del Boca Vista
A son paid cash so his father could arrive somewhere in style. The condo board couldn’t account for the money and voted him out. The car was never the problem.
Employee of the month
He does not work here. He sat next to Elaine on a flight, ordered the vegetable lasagna, and has been called nothing else since.
Puddy thinks he would have been a great salesman.
Twelve consecutive months
One technician
He was a mechanic first. A great mechanic. A mechanic you’d let stare at your engine for a really long time.
Buy the car here and he has already been under it. Whatever it needed before it went on the lot, he did it, and he wrote it down.
There is a machine outside the bay. Everything in it is $1.25 — he is not going to price a Twix differently from a PayDay — and B9 has been stuck since Tuesday. He looked at it a long time, the way he looks at an engine, and decided it was not his to move.
Book serviceWhy it’s built this way
Funny on purpose.
We just want you to see our creativity and sense of humor, as well as how we can translate an idea into content. Don’t worry — we won’t be silly with your site unless you request it.
The relationship status in the header is live. Every breakup is logged. So is every reconciliation, usually within the hour. Try to make your purchase while they are on.
Elaine liked that he could fix a car. He fixed Jerry’s. She noticed the hands.
She saw the Devils face. And the chest. She said it’s over. He said all right.
He said he’d stop painting his face. He did not say anything about the chest.
The 8-ball jacket appeared. Elaine gave him a choice. He chose the jacket. Then he chose Elaine. Then the jacket again.
He got out of the garage and onto the floor. Career growth. Elaine came back to see the suit.
They broke up on the plane. Twice. Vegetable Lasagna witnessed all of it and asked for another seat.
Back together at the gate. It felt like an Arby’s night.
He carried it up three flights without a word. Then he read what was in the drawer and would not stop asking.
A woman at her office called Elaine unclean. Puddy listened to all of it, then drank from her cup.
Come in. Sit in the chair. Puddy will be over when he’s over. He will not be reading anything in the meantime.
Puddy will not follow up. Gateway will.
Tell Gateway what you needThe website
Standing in for a trade business running sales and service under one name.
The problem
One man doing sales and service, with an inventory only he could describe. Anyone who wanted to know what was on the lot had to telephone and ask, and anyone who wanted work done turned up with a description of a noise and no appointment.
He also needed people to understand that the two halves are one business and one person, and that this is the selling point rather than the limitation: the man who services the car is the man who went through it before it went on the lot, and he still has what he did to it.
What we built
An inventory page that works like a real lot: every car on it, searched and filtered by condition, body and features, with the price on the card and the same price everywhere else it appears. Sales and service run under one name because they are one man, and each side says plainly what it does and what it costs.
And a service booking that asks what a technician actually needs to know — what it is doing, which car, when you can bring it in, whether you are waiting — and hands back a work order with a number on it and a time it will be done. On a real build, that order is the thing that lands in his inbox before the car does.